1 Product 4 Ways: The New Fast-Cook Ovens

January 2, 2020

Hurried lifestyles demand quick food, and fast-cook ovens make it happen. Operations ranging from convenience stores to coffee shops and delis to restaurants find these units can produce made-to-order menu items expeditiously and easily. Also called accelerated, high-speed or rapid-cook ovens, they take cook times for food from three to four minutes in a high-speed conveyor unit down to one to one-and-a-half minutes. Fast-cook ovens use similar heating technologies and virtually all come ventless. (Look for the UL seal.) We collected some of the more recent models on the market today.

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Easy Maintenance

Pratica’s Copa Express boasts a design that enables employees to easily clean and maintain it. It provides quick access to a removable catalytic converter and electrical compartment air filter. A daily cleaning function cools the oven to a safe temperature and then prompts employees through the steps. Pratica also offers the Rocket Express speed oven.

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Aesthetically Pleasing

Placing a fast-cook oven in the front-of-house? Some makers offer finishes in red, green, blue, black and even yellow or orange. Ovention introduced a selection of finishes for its single MiLO-14 oven last year. The cooking cavity illuminates during operation for a theatrical experience.

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User Friendly

Units that are easy for employees to use encourage productivity. The XpressChef 3i Series by ACP Inc. features a 7-inch touch screen with image-based menu selections that eliminate language and literary barriers, programming software that supports 25 languages, and a USB port for uploading cooking programs.

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Compact

Some fast-cook ovens are smaller than others. Merrychef’s eikon e2s high-speed oven measures only 14-inches wide compared with some models that run as much as 22-inches wide. It works well in operations where counter space is extremely tight. Just make sure the cavity accommodates the menu items you plan to produce.

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