Food & Food Equipment News

Cook Pizza And Sandwiches Conveyor Style

Belleco now offers the Maestro Line of Pizza/Sandwich Ovens. Able to cook sandwiches in less than a minute and present gourmet pizza, ovens are affordable, versatile and easy to use. The machine is equipped with a conveyor belt that’s extended for loading and unloading food items conveniently, heat shields that are easily adjusted and a compressed design, fitting on a 30-inch counter.   

Dubbed “The Affordable Solution for Toasting/Baking,” the Maestro Line of Pizza/Sandwich Ovens can cook pizzas that are either “fresh, frozen or par-baked style dough,” sub-sandwiches, meatball subs and garlic bread. The machine can also do the finishing touches on Mexican dishes, and can broil seafood, in which the additional “sizzle platter” is needed. 

The pizza ovens, modeled as JPO-14 and JPO-18, come with either a 14.5 inch conveyor or an 18.5 inch conveyor. Utilizing fresh pizza dough, the JPO-14 can produce 14-16, 12-inch pizzas in an hour and 50-60, 5-inch pizzas and hour. The JPO-18 can produce 10-12, 16-inch pizzas an hour, 14-16, 12-inch pizzas an hour and 90-110, 5-inch pizzas an hour. The sub-sandwich oven, modeled the JSO-14, is outfitted with Quartz Infrared Elements.    

For more information, visit www.bellecocooking.com.

Manual Slicing No More, Oliver Does It For You

Oliver Products Company now features a bagel and bun slicer. Available in three different models (702-N-Standard, 702-NSE-Short Chute End Feed and 702-NSS-Short Chute Side Feed), the dual machine can slice various bread items cleanly with its changeable cutting blade, offering different slicing heights and depths. 

Other features of the bagel and bun slicer include a strong and compressed design, offering effortless operating, a “gentle-touch” door that eases the bread items’ exit, causing less damage (with models 702-N only) and a bread item return chute that takes up less counter space. 

The machine has a coated finish of “durable bakery white powder,” with stainless steel parts—the chute and blade. 

The Oliver Products Company manufacturers a wide variety of equipment for bakery equipment and food packaging. Oliver was established as a “wood working equipment company,” but by 1932, they obtained their first bread slicer. Packaging equipment—“wrapping and labeling”—attributed the bread slicers by 1944, introducing the Oliver Products Company into “packaging system solutions.” 

For more information, visit www.oliverbakeryequip.com. 

Refrigerator Humidity Controlled With FiltaCool

Launched by The Filta Group, the FiltaCool service supplies panels that control coolers’ and refrigerators’ moisture levels in order to maintain an environment for perishable food products that keep them fresher and longer-lasting with a better appearance and aroma. Other benefits with FiltaCool include a lesser amount of consumed energy, stable temperatures at colder levels, limiting bacteria that can spread in cold storage units, allowing fridge components a longer mechanical life, minimizing the waste of food and immoveable or mechanical parts.    

The FiltaCool DBX Panel that rests in your cooler or refrigerator takes up minimal space and attracts moisture, heat and odors within the cooled environment, leaving food products surrounded with less humidity, unwanted odors and contamination.

For more information visit, www.filtacool.com or www.filtafry.com. 

Glastender, Inc.’s New Beer Line Chillers

Now available with a remote installable control panel, Glastender’s 1/3 and 1/2 HP Beer Line Chillers come in various models such as BLC-1/3, BLC-1/3-2, BLC-1/2 and BLC-1/2-2. Designed to house a heat exchanger inside a compressed unit, this unique feature of the chillers “allows the control panel with glycol bath and recirculating pump(s) to be easily installed separate from the condensing unit in a more conveniently accessible location.”

Other features of the Beer Line Chillers include an exterior made of black vinyl-clad and a 16 gauge base made out of steel, a “stainless steel, CFC-free, foamed-in-place insulated glycol bath,” a digital LCD display with controlled temperature readings and an extra-large coil compactor for increased effectiveness. 

For more information, visit www.glastender.com. 

Henny Penny’s SmartCombi Wins Award

One of 25 foodservice advancements given a Kitchen Innovation Award, Henny Penny's SmartCombi with WaveClean technology is the latest generation in combi-cooking featuring patented Advanced Steam Technology and the WaveClean automated cleaning system. Advanced Steam Technology produces steam without the use of a boiler and eliminates the need for de-liming, while the WaveClean cleaning system offers automated cleaning with no supervision required. 

"This year's innovations illustrate that foodservice equipment manufacturers have stepped up to meet the needs of the restaurant industry," said William C. Anton, FMP, convention chairman for the KI Show, and chairman and founder of Anton Airfood, Inc.

Henny Penny continues a 50-year tradition of innovation that began in Eaton, Ohio USA with the first commercial pressure fryer in 1957. Today, Henny Penny offers a wide range of high quality foodservice equipment designed for easier operation, greater flexibility and lower operating costs. Product lines include pressure and open fryers, combis, rotisseries, holding cabinets, display merchandisers and blast chiller/freezers. These products and complete start-up, service, training and technical support, are available through Henny Penny's exclusive worldwide distributor network.

For more information, visit www.hennypenny.com. 

Slice And Dice With Henckels New Knife Range

The newly designed TWIN Pollux range of knives by J.A. Henckels can be used in a commercial kitchen or simply in the privacy of your home. Versatile, the TWIN Pollux range, is made of "ice-hardened special formula steel," combining a customary rapt handle for grasp with a classically modern appearance and features. With a three-rivet design, the handle of the knives maintain easy, professional performance. The blade is made of Friodur stainless steel, requiring less sharpening and longer usage.

The series of knives includes 12 tools, from a chef’s knife to a vegetable knife. To name a few, the range includes a Santoku knife, a Chinese chopper knife and a Chinese Chef’s knife. Additionally, the TWIN Pollux range is accompanied by knife blocks and sets. 

Founded in Solingen, Germany 272 years ago, J.A. Henckels has been distributing cutlery in the United States since the 1800s. The company has expanded its product line of knives to also include products related to cooking such as "cookware, kitchen gadgets & tools, steak knife set, wood accessories and cooking shears."

For more information, visit www.zwilling.com.

Taking The Heat: Comark’s Catering Thermometer

Attached with a penetration probe, Comark’s Catering Thermometer is modeled for food manufacturers, processors, caterers and foodservice functions. Specifically, the Catercheck 3, with its probe, can be used for solid or semisolid food products. Including a thermistor sensor for precise readings, a 5-year battery life, a temperature display in degrees Celsius, an easy on and off maneuver and an auto shutdown switch, the Catering Thermometer also contains “BioCote antimicrobial protection to provide an important extra level of defense against cross-contamination.”

Combining accuracy of temperature readings and performance, the Catercheck 3 is also an inexpensive choice with easy operating.

An international manufacturer of “precision thermometers, pressure, airflow, humidity and pH meters, data loggers and wireless monitoring solutions for the food and pharmaceutical industries,” Comark leads the way in providing high quality products.   

For more information, visit www.comarkltd.com.

Touchless Tissue Dispenser From KC Professional

The stainless steel Electronic Touchless Coreless JRT Tissue Dispenser by Kimberly-Clark Professional leaves hands extra sanitary after washing. As the first electronic bath tissue dispenser, the JRT provides touchless effort in receiving tissues, using SCOTT products that improve hygiene in restrooms. The dispenser also minimizes spending and performs with less irritation than manual tissue dispensers.

Other benefits and features of the Electronic Touchless Coreless JRT Tissue Dispenser include an emergency feed knob that releases tissues even if batteries run out, controlled dispensing that reduces consummation of bath tissue by 20 percent and a battery life that last more than a year.

Employing more than 55,000 people worldwide, Kimberly-Clark Professional is company that specializes in around-the-world health and hygiene. “Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with operations in 37 countries, Kimberly-Clark’s global brands are sold in more than 150 countries … with well-known family care and personal care brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Andrex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise and Depend.”

For more information, visit www.kcprofessional.com.

Food Stays Hot, Fresh With Merco Holding Cabinets

Keeping food ready is easier with Merco Holding Cabinets. Now available, MHC-22-GEN and MHC-1, the holding cabinets allow flexibility and offer operations a wider menu variety. The cabinets' design and simple operating functions reduce the amount of time for an employee to clean and train with the holding cabinets, thus increasing patron approval by producing food items with quality in lesser amounts of time.

The MHC-22-GEN cabinet can hold four bins, which are poly-carbonate bins, and the MHC-1 can hold a single bin with "the ability to stack and mount horizontally and vertically for modularity."

New features with the MHC model include conduction heat, an independent upper and lower heating system with individual heat zones for each bin, cool touch, a small footprint, stainless steel construction, digital display for each bin, a six-hour timer with alarm and a programmable menu.

Lincoln Foodservice Products, LLC, an Enodis company, is a leading U.S. manufacturer of Impinger conveyor ovens, Redco manual food prep machines; Merco and Savory commercial food warmers, toasters, merchandisers and rotisserie ovens; and the extensive Wear-Ever line of professional cookware and bakeware, food handling products and utensils. Lincoln also distributes Centurion and Optio induction-ready stainless steel cookware.

For more information, visit www.mercosavory.com or www.lincolnfp.com.  

Marvel Chateau Collection Now With Sentry System

The new Chateau Collection of champagne and wine cellars, and beverage refrigerators by Marvel now come with an internal Sentry System. Models include digital tough controls, containing blue LED displays. With a control panel administered by the Sentry System refrigeration monitor, models provide alarms that are both charted and perceptible for temperature, and failure to power partly opened door situations.

Equipped with ebony interior, model racks fully extend at a glide-out pace and are designed to hold numerous shapes of wine bottles. Models also include mats that are removable and are vibration dampening that guard disturbed wine vibrations. Other features include “soft display lighting, built-in user-activated Sabbath mode, solid white maple rack facings and a clean, continuous toe kick." Models vary, with wine cellars able to house 24-54 bottles, and champagne cellars are able to house 18 bottles.

Founded in 1932, Marvel first produced under-counter ice boxes. For more than 70 years, the company, which is a part of Aga Foodservice Group, has enhanced their line of “luxury under-counter refrigeration” products.

For more information, visit www.lifeluxurymarvel.com.