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Buying the Best Commercial Blast Chillers for Your Restaurant
The commercial blast chillers is one of the common storage tools used in many large commercial kitchens and is an invaluable asset to your kitchen by quickly cooling your various vegetables, various pastries or cakes and meats to very low temperatures, thus inhibiting bacterial growth and locking in the taste and freshness of your food. Chefmax will recommend the most suitable unit for you in terms of type, capacity, size and frozen foods of the freezer.
Table of Contents
1. What does commercial blast chillers mean
The commercial blast chillers are a professional storage tool for storing a variety of foods that need to be frozen quickly, allowing your food or products to be frozen quickly in a short period of time in order to keep the food nutrient free and fresh tasting, which can speed up your production and storage. It is also one of the common equipment in many professional kitchens, they have different temperatures, you can choose the best equipment for you according to the food you need to chill.
By rapidly cooling the product at a much faster rate than conventional freezers, commercial blast freezers can reach very low temperatures in a short period of time. This results in the formation of very fine ice crystals within the product, which causes minimal damage to the cellular structure of the product and maximizes product weight during thawing, as weight is not lost through drip loss.
2. What are the benefits of blast chillers for restaurants?
If you plan to store or freeze heated food, you usually need to cool it down before you can put it in the refrigerator, which can take a long time to cool down, and over time, many bacteria can grow and food safety may not be up to standard. The advantage of this device is that you can quickly and safely lower the food to a lower temperature without waiting for it to cool down, ensuring your food safety and inhibiting the growth of bacteria.
Blast chillers also extend the shelf life of precooked products. They can be used to quickly cool pre-prepared products that will be stored in a refrigerator for reheating service times in a high volume restaurant, banquet hall or institutional setting.
C. Retaining Moisture
Food frozen at conventional speeds converts the internal moisture into ice crystals, which can damage the structure of the food when thawed. commercial blast chillers reduce the time it takes to freeze to very low temperatures in a short period of time, thus reducing the size and frequency of these crystals and ensuring the integrity of the food.
D. Reducing the time to prepare food
It is also an important tool in food preparation to reduce your production time. If you are a business owner of an ice cream parlor, you can reduce the freezing time with this equipment, thus increasing your efficiency and making smoother and massive ice creams. If you are making pastry dough or pasta you can also benefit from commercial blast freezers.
E. Lock in freshness
In addition to the safety factor, fast freezing fresh ingredients does not lose their freshness when thawed, ensuring the original taste, making it a perfect choice for restaurants that need to serve food immediately.
3. How to choose commercial blast chillers?
A. From 4 types of commercial blast chillers
Different blast chillers are available:
Countertop blast freezers: A unit that can be easily installed underneath a worktop, usually suitable for small batches or kitchens with countertop production units. If your kitchen is compact, this design is a very economical option for you!
Reach in blast chillers: They are usually vertical in design, so you can easily reach your food without bending down. The capacity is usually larger than a counter top blast chiller and can hold more food, making them ideal for high-volume production such as hotels, cafeterias and other food service establishments.
Trolley blast freezers: As the name suggests, compared to the reach in blast chillers, this design is more flexible and allows you to push the shelves out at will, making it more suitable for large quantities of food, usually 200 pounds or more, which can benefit any cafeteria or catering establishment.
Deep blast chillers: The temperature will usually be lower to -90℃, other blast chillers is basically at -40℃, if you store expensive seafood or other precious food you can choose this equipment.
B. Type of cooling
Soft freezing: A slightly longer freezing process used to safely cool delicate products that may be damaged by hard cooling, such as buttercream or similar French desserts. Foods with high water content, such as vegetables, fish, rice and pasta, should also be frozen in this manner to prevent dehydration.
Hard freezing: The “standard” form of rapid freezing, a fast process that brings food down to near freezing point and is used for most products, including cooked meats, lasagna, pies, pizzas, etc.
Quick Freezer: A very fast process that reduces the temperature of food to zero or lower for storage in the refrigerator, typically used for high density or high fat content foods such as meat and stews in vacuum packed form. This type of cooling is ideal for shipping, freezing pizza pies or foods that need to be shipped.
C. Capacity
Commercial blast chillers are usually available in a variety of sizes to meet the needs of almost any commercial kitchen. If you only need to freeze a small amount of food at a time, a compact unit like a countertop blast chiller is usually the entry level choice. But if you run a large production kitchen or cafeteria, a larger reach-in freezer or cart freezer may be more appropriate.
D. Size
In addition, regardless of the type of commercial blast freezers you choose you should also consider the space available in your kitchen and how much space you plan to use to accommodate the unit so that it does not impede the work of your staff or improve the efficiency of your restaurant. The layout of your kitchen will also affect the location of your blast freezer, which is a key factor in determining which blast freezer you purchase.
E. Frozen foods
The type of food you want to process is also important in determining how quickly you need the flash freezer to freeze its contents, and the ideal temperature to store them. For example, vegetables do not cool and freeze at the same rate as seafood or meat, and in many cases they are stored at different temperatures (depending on how long you intend to keep them before using them and what type of refrigerator or freezer the product will be stored in). More importantly, you will want to test the products you wish to freeze first to determine the optimal temperature range for your products. Depending on whether you want to freeze meat, dairy, fish or vegetables, the temperature range needed to achieve the desired result may vary greatly. If the optimal freezing temperature for the product you want to freeze is -40 °C, it makes no sense to buy a quick-freezer that reaches -90 °C. Therefore, it is important to first recognize, test and understand the appropriate temperature for freezing various products and then make an informed and well thought out decision. If you only need to freeze vegetables, dough or various types of meat to lock in their freshness, commercial blast chillers at -40°C will be the right choice for you.
here are usually a variety of quick-freezes that affect quick-freezing, but usually it is: the volume and shape of the food you want to quick-freeze, the incoming temperature, the outgoing temperature and the number of times you open the door. For example, it takes less time to flash freeze fruits or vegetables compared to certain types of meat because the skin of fruits and vegetables is more permeable and thinner.
What are the advantages of Chefmax's quick-freeze cabinets
High quality compressor: we use the luxury configuration of the compressor brand, freezing fast and stable performance, even in the harsh environment will not be affected, and longer service life.
Powerful fans: two large fans provide strong wind power, uniform wind and fast freezing speed.
Automatic frost: The machine will perform automatic frost function after you finish using it, so that it is ready for your next work.
Automatic alarm: If the temperature of the machine is too high, there will be a high temperature alarm prompt, and there will also be an automatic alarm reminder after the machine has finished working.
304 stainless steel inside and outside: With high quality stainless steel design, our equipment will look more flat and shiny.
The best way to know the correct temperature for commercial blast chillers or products is to consult an expert. At Chefmax, we have freezing experts with years of experience serving customers worldwide, from food production to catering. If you want to purchase your own blast chiller but don’t know where to start, our blast chiller experts will be happy to support you in finding the best product for your business and needs.
