Suppliers you should know: Ovens
BEECH OVENS
Keeping up with the latest trends in open and show kitchen designs
Beech Ovens was initially part of the Beech Group, a family construction and refractory engineering company established in Brisbane, Australia in 1958. Today, Beech Ovens is part of global kitchen equipment and food service company The Middleby Corporation.
As part that group, Beech Ovens aims to provide a high level of service to all its clients using a global sales network to complement the team in its Brisbane Head Office.
The Beech Ovens product range has expanded from its original stone hearth oven first manufactured in 1989, to now include rotisseries, tandoors, duck ovens, char grills, specialty grills and bread ovens.
All of these designs, explains Beech Ovens director of sales and engineering Stephen Trood, are perfect for keeping up with the latest trends in commercial kitchen design.
“Theatre kitchens, open kitchens and lots of visuals and flame will continue to be popular in international food service because bling is king,” says Trood.
“Flexibility is our key ingredient and our company motto ‘If you can conceptualise it, we can build it’ enables our team of design engineers to take your dream idea and make it into a spectacular customised oven for your kitchen,” he adds.
Beech Ovens’ latest products include electric stone hearth ovens, 16th century rotisseries, 360-degree open churrascos and wood burning shawarmas.
“Not just a pizza oven, the Beech stone hearth oven is incredibly versatile and can be used to roast, grill, bake, fry, sauté, steam and much more. That the oven is able to do such a broad spectrum of cooking duties has been achieved by placing items requiring a cooler temperature nearer the mouth of the oven (where it is cooler) and vice versa.
Cooking with a wood fire, although incredibly hot, is also very ‘forgiving’. Breads could be cooked at off-peak times and reheated, or par-baked elsewhere and finished off in the oven,” says Trood.
Tel : +61 7 33970277
Email : sales@beechovens.com.au
Web : www.beechovens.com.au
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CHARVET
The bespoke kitchen equipment producer famed for modular suites
Charvet Premier Ranges is a UK-based producer of bespoke kitchen equipment, created by its team of craftsmen in its factories in the French Alps. Charvet’s range of products includes one-piece tops for modular suites, wall or island, or semi one-piece tops for island suites.
All of Charvet’s modular suites can be bolted together to form central island suites, while half module units can be used within the design to enable more control over the layout.
It’s this customisability that allows Charvet to offer the right package of equipment to fit any particular hotel menu, all backed by expert advice from a back up and support team with experience of commercial kitchen design, both in Europe and the Gulf.
Charvet Premier Ranges managing director Wayne Cuomo says: “It is the survival of the fittest in the market at the moment and manufacturers who are continually striving to produce equipment and features that the customer wants are increasing their market share ... modular ranges are quite often seen as a genuine alternative to bespoke if it can be tailored to suit the customer. Those that don’t have this flexibility are falling behind those that do!”
Charvet recently launched the Charvet Pro700 series which aims to set a benchmark for compact but durable cooking equipment.
Only 700mm deep and 900mm high, Pro700 has been developed especially for locations where space is restricted, such as the busy service and satellite kitchens or poolside bars and grills found in hotels and restaurants across the Gulf.
The Pro700 features a choice of 60 gas, electric and induction modules including burners, solid top, smooth chrome coated or steel plancha.
Tel : +44 1342 717 936
Email : wayne@charvet.co.uk
Web : www.charvet.co.uk
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MKN
Making complex challenges easy to handle with modern operation systems
Germany-based MKN aims to stand for the future in kitchenware solutions, with a research and development department that aims to provide tailor-made technology for every situation, optimising elements for easy and efficient operation.
Design considerations are equally important to MKN, which spends time delivering a product which has immediate aesthetic appeal to everyone working with it. MKN believes that challenges in commercial kitchens are getting more and more complex, so it attempts to make complex challenges easy to handle with innovative and modern operation systems.
MKN Middle East & Africa regional director sales - export department Elias Rached says: “It is important to implement an oven/combi-steamer concept that is easy to operate for everyone in the kitchen — it doesn’t matter how skilled these persons are. Furthermore, kitchens must take care of the optimised kitchen processes and, therefore, it is important to have partners that have a competence for the entire cooking process”.
MKN’s best selling commercial unit is the FlexiChef horizontal cooker, which comes with an automatic cleaning system. MKN also recently released a Magic Pilot app, which allows the user to use a modern smartphone to turn on and set the temperature of MKN cooking technology immediately and remotely.
Magic Pilot is also compatible with the combi-steamer line FlexiCombi, which after every cooking process shows the total consumption of energy and water.
Tel : +971 7 204 1336
Email : rac@mkn-middle-east.com
Web : www.mkn.eu
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ELECTROLUX
Solid kitchens for multiple generations of chefs
Electrolux, one of the global leaders in home appliances and appliances for professional use, sells more than 40 million products to customers in 150 countries every year. Its products include refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and cookers from brands such as Electrolux, AEG, Zanussi, Eureka and Frigidaire.
As part of its commercial oven department, Electrolux aims to encourage the design of solid kitchens which can satisfy the requirements of multiple generations of chefs, by means of highly performing, easy to use and green solutions.
Electrolux Professional vice president of sales for Africa, India, Middle East Marco
Guerretti says: I believe that quality and simplicity, among a variety of captivating and tempting ideas, will lead the F&B trends in upcoming 2013. This fits into the worldwide trend that is promoted by the greatest chefs; to rediscover the natural taste of food.”
“Nowadays, the technological level of professional equipment is extremely high. Massive usage of professional kitchen appliances equipped with advanced digital technologies allows the industry to evolve on a level that no one expected within such a traditional sector as food service.
When it comes to technological applications, we can expect tremendous future transformations as we have observed [recently] in the telephone and computer industry,” he adds.
Electrolux’s latest innovation is the IcyHot from the 900XP horizontal cooking range, which allows the combination of a high performing grill or fry top with the new Ref-freezer base, to obtain a single system ensuring power, productivity and flexibility all in one.
Tel : +971 4 351 4700
Web : ww.professional.electrolux.com/
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RATIONAL
Specialist in hot food preparation for the world’s professional kitchens
For more than 30 years Rational has aimed to be a specialist in hot food preparation for the world’s professional kitchens, while offering the maximum benefits to customers. By relying on regular innovation, Rational has formed a leading position in terms of technology and market share, while rapid growth has increased its share of the world market to 54%, with 100 million meals now prepared every day in Rational units in all parts of the world.
The company, based in the Bavarian town of Landsberg in Germany, is also in the process of expanding its premises, with construction work on a new 7500 square metre international service parts warehouse beginning back in October 2013, and which is due to be completed in autumn 2014.
Rational International Middle East chief representative Simon Parke-Davis says: “Space plays a major role in every kitchen. All the traditional kitchen equipment needs to be placed on a very limited space. The combi-steamer technology offers the perfect solution with maximum application flexibility but minimum space requirement. It is getting more and more important that kitchen equipment is easy to use.”
“New technologies allow kitchens to achieve the best cooking results, even with untrained staff. For instance Rational has created a software solution that makes operator errors almost impossible,” he adds.
Rational’s new software ‘MyDisplay’, is an inbuilt software function which removes all unnecessary displays from a Rational appliance’s user interface, so that each individual user only sees the cooking information necessary for their current task.
The Rational SelfCookingCenter Whitefficiency also makes it possible to ensure hygiene safety with documentation of HACCP and automatic cleaning of the unit. It also replaces almost all the appliances traditionally found in a professional kitchen, with the ability to grill, steam, gratinate, bake, rise, roast, braise, simmer, stew, poach or blanche.
Tel : +971 4 338 6615
Email : info@rational-online.com
Web : www.rational-online.com
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WOOD STONE
Wood-fired stone hearth ovens that can withstand a commercial kitchen
Wood Stone was founded in the US in 1990 with a mission to produce quality wood-fired stone hearth ovens that could withstand the intense rigours of a commercial kitchen. Fast forward to the present day, and Wood Stone now also designs, engineers and manufactures an array of speciality commercial cooking equipment in addition to ovens.
Located in Bellingham, Washington, Wood Stone now has more than 13,000 installations in 75 countries worldwide.
Recently, Wood Stone was acquired by foodservice equipment manufacturer Henny Penny, with the company preparing to expand its capacity and global distribution and service footprint.
Wood Stone vice president of international sales Merrill Bevan says: “In our experience, hoteliers are excited by designs that will push the envelope and provide a great show to the customer. In the past, some of the designs that designers presented weren’t within reach.
With Wood Stone’s Designer Series, our custom oven offerings and speciality grills are the solution to this problem. Wood Stone is excited to work with hoteliers to find solutions that will make them happy and successful.”
Wood Stone recently re-launched its Designer Series Custom Configurations line, which provides Wood Stone’s legendary performance and reliability in a highly engineered package offering possibilities for those desiring a customized oven to fit their needs. It has also introduced a new line of gas-fired and traditional solid fuel burning speciality grills.
Tel : +1 360 650 1111
Email : info@woodstone-corp.com
Web : www.woodstone-corp.com