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Product Education: Chef Pans Primer

January 17, 2012 10:00 AM

As a professional chef, your chef’s pans and skillets have an enormous effect on the quality of your finished dishes. Discovering the best chef’s skillets, cooking pans, and frying pans for the different types of fare you serve can greatly improve the taste and presentation of your food. This increase in caliber translates to an increase in business for your restaurant. Make sure that you are using the optimal equipment for the best results possible, always taking into consideration the particular dish you are preparing.

Product Education: Chef Pans PrimerNon-Stick Pans and Other Non-Stick Cookware

The top choice for popular breakfast items is the Winco 12" Master Cook Fry Pan. Non-stick pans ensure effortless crepe and pancake – flipping and tidy removal of egg dishes. This pan is also the ideal size for most restaurant breakfast offerings. Other items, however, call for equipment without non-stick surfaces. Any pan that you plan to use for sauces that need to be aerated should lack a non-stick surface to prevent interference with whisking. Likewise, professional-grade woks frequently feature metal surfaces since the intense heat generated by the shape of a professional wok gently browns stir-fry vegetables to perfection but can destroy non-stick materials. In general, metals such as copper and thick stainless steel cookware provide the highest degree of long-lasting sturdiness.

Pans for Cooking Meat Dishes

The most professional and convenient selection for a variety of dishes, this Thunder Group Cookware Set offers many highly useful features. The skillets are induction ready with aluminum cores, allowing for extremely fast heating and durability and meaning that you can take advantage of the added efficiency of this set for years to come. The most unique characteristics of these pans are their cool touch handles. Usually, when you prepare a large meat dish over high flame and transfer it to the oven to finish, you need to use a towel or risk burning yourself on a metal handle. These cooking utensils combine stainless steel exteriors with state of the art cool touch technology, making such an irritating and sometimes painful inconvenience a thing of the past.

No matter what the kind of food on which you build your business, these simple guidelines can assist you in your selection of the best quality professional cookware: thick, durable metals; surfaces (stick or non-stick) that correspond to the particular dish in question; and safety features that increase your productivity. As always in the restaurant industry, careful attention to detail is what will set you apart from your competition.

 

Posted by Dana Williams at 10:00 AM

Filed under: How-ToGeneralProduct ReviewsFood Quality

Tags: chef pans, chef's pans, chef's skillets, cooking pans, frying pans, non-stick pans, nonstick cookware, professional cookware, stainless steel cookware

 
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