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Cook and Chill: equipment and process

Firex equipment featuring the Cook and Chill system allows you to prepare meals in advance, yet maintaining their quality for a long time.  This makes it ideal for central kitchens, canteens, catering services, central kitchens and small food industries specialised in meal prep. 

Cook and Chill system: an overview

The Cook & Chill system is an innovative technique used for preparing, storing and distributing food. It is particularly relevant as it significantly reduces microbiological risk: in fact, once the cooking phase is finished, the food is rapidly cooled down, in order to preserve its organoleptic qualities

Method and process

To be truly effective and carried out correctly, the Cook & Chill method requires special equipment. Firex offers a range of solutions to suit every need:

  • Cook & Chill pasta and rice, to rapidly cool freshly cooked pasta or rice, but also ideal for blanching vegetables;
  • Cook & Chill sauces and soups, rapid cooling is possible either within the cooking tank itself using the SCT2 system in the Baskett range, or with a water chiller that rapidly cools sealed bags by immersion.

Ingredients and applications

Baskett, cooking kettle with integrated mixer, is ideal to produce liquid food like sauces, broth, soups and creams thanks to indirect steam heating and then cooling phase (Cook&Chill system).

Advantages and key features of the Firex Cook and Chill cookers

Firex equipment featuring the Cook and Chill system guarantees excellent results thanks to precise temperature control.
Furthermore, it is possible to:

  • streamline production processes, making it possible to prepare food in advance and then distribute it throughout the week, thereby avoiding production peaks;
  • make efficient use of ingredients, reducing waste and optimising supplies, stock levels and the production of semi-finished products;
  • achieve healthier products with high nutritional and organoleptic qualities.

Contact us to learn more about the processes and applications of our equipment, we will be happy to help you!

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