Food & Food Equipment News

Mars Air Systems Now Offers LoPro Line

The LoPro Commercial Series Air Curtains by Mars Air Systems maintains air flow that ultimately reduces energy costs, while optimizing sanitation levels by preventing flying insects from entering the overhead curtain. Commonly used for customer entrances, drive-up windows, concession stands, the LoPro Commercial Series Air Curtains rid unnecessary plastic strips that are normally found over walk-in coolers.

Equipped with a TZ6112 Door Limit Switch, the LoPro Air Curtain is easily controlled and carries additional features such as an eight-inch profile, lightweight design, speeds that vary, easy installation and upkeep, and a quiet operating mode. The LoPro Air Curtain also comes in a standard obsidian black color, pearl white, titanium silver or spartan bronze.

Mars Air Systems was founded in 1962 by Martin Smilo with his air curtain design. “The largest manufacturer of air curtains in the world,” Mars Air Systems manufactures air curtains for varying settings, also producing custom applications.            

For more information, visit www.marsair.com.

New Line of Roller Grill Solutions By APW Wyott

A leading manufacturer of roller grill systems, APW Wyott recently introduced new, customizable Roller Grill Solutions. Suited to almost any merchandising requirement, these Roller Grills feature easy-to-use electrical controls, convenient holding drawers and a number of other features that allow retailers to create the solution for their specific roller grill needs.

Known for there innovative “Tru-Turn Rollers” (“non-stick” surface), APW Wyott designs allow a wide variety of products to be turned, with reduced slippage, to produce a more consistent and appealing presentation. Retailers now can configure this system to serve virtually any POS environment. The package can be set up to provide either warmed buns or using buns directly from a package. Featuring fully adjustable infinite controls and Teflon grease seals to keep all mechanisms clean, the company’s rugged, high-volume flat or slanted Hot Rod Roller Grills are available in a variety of sizes and cooking capacities. These grilling systems can be ordered with Chrome or “Tru-Turn” non-stick rollers, in 120V and 208V power configurations, and with grilling capacities ranging from 340 to 850 franks per hour. 

APW Wyott also offers a number of accessory products for roller grills, including sneeze guards in single-door, and pass through canopy designs, unheated bun cabinets and bun warmers designed to maintain bread products at the ideal temperature and texture. A leading source of equipment solutions for over 60 years, APW Wyott backs every roller grill with proven service and support to demanding customers worldwide. The company supplies equipment for counter tops, restaurant and concession areas, the cooking and selling of “On the Go” food items, and heavy-duty oven and cooking situations. All our units are NSF and UL approved and backed by our one-year parts and labor warranty fast food, casual and fine dining and institutional markets. 

For more information, visit www.apwwyott.com.

Baxter Provides New Proofers With New Standards

Allowing you to fit your proofer to your rack capacity requirements, Baxter Manufacturing Company offers new standards for these units. With a modular design, Baxter proofers utilize digital controls, with a total of four individual rack timers. Baxter’s standard proofers come in three different models: single wide, double wide and triple wide.

Additional products available with Baxter proofers include upper side and back trim pieces, an optional probe for temperature that monitors products that are being proofed and a Fas-Thaw option that thaws and proofs food items that are frozen, quickly. 

The proofers feature a stainless steel construction, a control panel that’s door-mounted and set at eye-level for easy visibility, allowing you to set temperatures and humidity levels, a humidity control, individual timers for racks that can be set at different times simultaneously and doors that are beveled for a wider opening.  

Baxter Manufacturing Company has been supplying products for the foodservice, wholesale and independent baking industries since 1958. Baxter also “sells a full line of rotating rack ovens, revolving tray ovens, proofers, ingredient bins and more,” and “initially started operations as a job shop producing a variety of stainless steel equipment.”

For more information, visit www.baxtermfg.com.

San Jamar’s Innovative Products: The Mini Dome and Versa-Prep System

The Mini Dome by San Jamar, “an all-in-one garnish solution designed by bartenders for bartenders,” can fit on mixing rails and features a lid (domed) that rotates back and opens for a quick and easy access. The dome can also hold garnish products to full capacity when closed. Equipped with snap-on storage that can hold straws, stirrers and picks, the Mini Dome contains a one quart and 1.5 pint “deep tray.”   

Additional features of the Mini Dome include its modular shape which increases maximum product storage and its chillable ability, ensuring garnish products that are fresher with the reduction of waste.

Producing the first cutting board and stand into one system, San Jamar also offers the Versa-Prep System. Able to work with standard-sized pans during food prep, the Versa-Prep System maintains food prep safety, reduces the time it takes to prep, ultimately making the process easier. Utilizing the system ensures the elimination of cross-contamination by directly separating food from waste, leaving intended food products to be placed into pans. While prepping food, products can be swept directly into pans and then pans can be handed over quickly for service. 

The Versa-Prep System features gripping feet that hold the device in place while prepping food, a stand and 18 by 24-inch Versa-Board and hanging racks that can be used for storage. Additionally, individual 12 by 18-inch Versa-Boards is available with the system.   

San Jamar produces product ideas for food safety, counter service and washrooms. As an industry leader for more than 20 years, San Jamar “listens, observes and creates.”    

For more information, visit www.sanjamar.com.

Brew More Coffee With The AXIOM DV 3

The 12-cup digital dual-voltage coffee brewer with an LCD by BUNN, the AXIOM DV 3 contains a large tank that can hold up to 200 ounces (5.9 liters) with back-to-back brewing capabilities. The brewer also automatically adjusts to differing water pressures, and areas in the brewer where high lime persists, BrewLOGIC technology “calculates flow rate and adjusts brew time to maintain consistent pot levels.”

The AXIOM DV 3’s additional features include an accurate control that monitors temperature digitally, cold brew lockout ability, a drain that’s built in which makes service easier, brewing done in decanters, a SplashGard funnel that deters hands from coming into contact with hot liquids, a control that programs pre-infusion, pulse brew and digital temperatures and a warmer shut-off that’s automatic.

Introducing the first paper coffee filter in 1957, then Bunn-O-Matic Corporation also pioneered the “pourover” commercial-use coffee brewer. Today, BUNN, located in Springfield, Ill., manufactures beverage equipment for commercial use and coffee brewers that can be used in the privacy of your home. 

For more information, visit www.bunnomatic.com.

The Elite 500—A “Lids Off Operation”

Withstanding room temperature for up to two hours with its lid off, the Elite 500 “Ice Rink” Ice Cream Freezer from Piper Products contains a frost-free section, where products are held at zero degrees Fahrenheit. Available in two sizes, a 6.5 or 12.25 cubic feet freezer, the Elite 500 includes a refrigeration system that eliminates water hazards with its inside frost wall and heater strip, a timed gas temperature that’s auto-hot, a “terminated defrost system” and a thermostat to monitor temperature within the freezer.

Your pick of either a stainless steel or a powder-coated finish, the Elite 500 freezer comes with features such as a solid tray slide, leveled dispensers, an interlock that enables the unit to lock with other Piper Elite units, a 16-guage top, an inner liner with a drain, 14-guage legs, 20-guage end and front panels that attach to the legs, a detachable louver panel, a stainless steel liner, insulation for the 2-inch cabinet, a no condensation heater, automatic defrost, a dial thermometer, stainless steel removable lids and 5-inch casters that swivel with two brakes.

For over 40 years, Piper Products has manufactured ovens, and their line of “bakery, food service and institutional equipment. Piper Products is an industry leader in aluminum and stainless steel food transport equipment.”

For more information, visit www.servolift.com.

Chafing Dishes With Style, Savoir Style

Alegacy Foodservice Products Group, Inc. introduces its new line of chafing dishes—Savoir. Though elegant and vivid, the dishes are inevitably, functional. Available in either “contemporary stainless” or “fanciful brass trim,” the Savoir line’s finished polish appearance will mirror your event’s importance. Dishes range in full, half and two round chafer sizes and is built for heavy-duty usage in any atmosphere where foodservice is key.

Believing in “delivering faster, building stronger and demanding the best,” Alegacy was founded in 1947, having provided small wares that are unique in “style, quality and value.”

For more information, visit www.alegacy.com.

Mobile Carving Station: A Go For Alto-Shaam

The GC-89 Mobile Carving Station by Alto-Shaam can be located at the end of a buffet line or at any special event celebration—“where and when you need it.” A complete cooking station, the GC-89 comes equipped with three lamps that are adjustable, each controlled by an on/off toggle switch, a hot food holding well that houses two pans with a drain and drain plug, an induction cook top with two burners, a ventilating system, a cutting board with a gravy lane and three storage shelves leveled under the counter. 

Made with polished brass railing and encompassed by a guard of etched glass, the carving station displays well and is able to be setup for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A black “Formica counter surface” surrounds the two burners, and when not in use, the station’s “downdraft” system withdrawals, leaving the unit clean.   

Founded by Jerry Maahs, whose last name is “Shaam” backwards, Alto-Shaam was incorporated back in 1955. After 13 years in the restaurant business, Maahs “began to focus more serious attention to the development of equipment for the food service industry. With his strong food service background, he recognized and sought solutions to the equipment problems of the foodservice operator.”

For more information, visit www.alto-shaam.com.

Enhanced Char Broilers By Bakers Pride

Available in three different models (L, C and F), Bakers Pride Char Broilers are low-profiled and range from 24-84 inches in height and length, respectively. Made out of heavy-gauged stainless steel, the broilers come equipped with 3 ¼-inch water/grease pans, warming racks that slide out effortlessly, work decks, a lower broiler rack that’s adjustable and cutouts/condiment rails. 

Founded in the mid 1940s, New York, Bakers Pride first innovated a pizza oven. “Today, Bakers Pride is world-renowned for high quality commercial baking, cooking, and pizza equipment,” providing “a wide selection of quality deck ovens, countertop ovens, conveyor ovens, and under-fired char broilers to meet any need of the foodservice, pizza and supermarket industries worldwide.”

For more information, visit www.bakerspride.com.

Molding Made Easy With Univex Dough Rounder

Pre-cut dough pieces and let the Pizzaxpress Dough Rounder by Univex smoothly shape and firm them automatically. Producing 2-42 ounce rounds, the DR42 dough rounder model is made out of stainless steel and an “anodized aluminum construction.”

Ridding manual shaping of dough, the DR42 saves operating time. The machine is also able to shape different portions of dough, from 1 ¾ - 16 ounce pieces, without having to adjust any of its parts.

Meeting NSF requirements, the Pizzaxpress Dough Rounder can hourly operate up to 1,200 portions of dough, releasing single portions every three seconds. The machine also includes a feed that’s continual for quicker production of dough shaping and is easy to clean, as the unit can be taken apart without the use of tools. 

Founded by Charlie Papadinis in 1948 with his invention and first manufacture of an automatic potato peeler, Univex now manufactures “its own lines of mixers, slicers, peelers, and food processing equipment.”

For more information, visit www.univexcorp.com.