Welcome to thisproduct gallery, focused on blast chillers with capacities of 100 lbs. to 200 lbs., both reach-in and roll-in models. In June 2009 we invited suppliers to submit their newest or most significant units, and these nine companies took up our offer. If you need something different—say an undercounter model or something with greater…

Newer midsize blast chillers cool food quickly and easily to save time, enhance product quality and improve food safety. Here’s how to spec reach-in or roll-in models with capacities of 100 lbs. to 200 lbs.

This month we take a look at hot mobile cabinets, heated transport carts and banquet carts used to transport or bulk or plated food. In gallery below we do not include units designed for healthcare meal transport; we’ll cover those models another time. We invited major suppliers of heated carts and similar mobile units to…

Need new booster heaters? Comparison shop and consult lifecycle costing guides to spec the right one for your operations.

One of the most recent foodservice equipment categories added to the Energy Star program also may be the longest in development so far. Griddles were the first type of equipment for which Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s Food Service Technology Center in San Ramon, Calif., developed a standardized test method more than 20 years ago,…

Picture different jurisdictions and entities staking out their territories and trying to raise the bar, and you’ll picture what’s been happening in the commercial ice-machine business. Effective Jan. 1, 2010, you’ll have a base-line federal minimum standard for energy efficiency. Then apart from that, there’s been the California Energy Commission standard in that state. And…