Cookware and Kitchen Supplies

The quality of food you serve will go a long way in retaining your customers. But, the restaurant business is as dependent on the finer points of service and presentation of your staff, as on the consistency in delivery on your part. You wouldn’t appreciate your favorite pasta being served in an inappropriate dish, or your order for French wine like Bourgogne being presented to you in the wrong wine glass. Think like your customer and appreciate the smaller, oft-ignored aspects of your kitchen and restaurant. For all the finer details, invest in the training of your staff, and to equip them well for their daily chores, come to AppleRestaurantSupply.com

Dress to Kill

Apparel
A restaurant is known by the food its serves, and the food carries the signature of the Chef. Further, the chef is identified by his customary chef’s hat and apron, apart from the cuisine he specializes in. Johnson-Rose Corp. offers a range of Chef’s apparel – bib aprons, waist aprons, Chef’s hats, and oven gloves. You could choose the color that is in sync with the color scheme of your kitchen and restaurant interiors. For instance, the bib aprons come in colors like Kelly green, hunter green, burgundy, royal blue, navy blue, and the regular red and black. These bib aprons come in two sizes – 30 inches by 40 inches, and 36 inches by 39 inches – depending on the Chef’s appetite and physique! These aprons can be ordered in sets of 6, 12, 18 or 24. For the wet activities in the kitchen, go for the clear vinyl bib apron that assists in heat resistance. For taking orders, and keeping papers, pens, and other knickknacks, a waist apron works best. It can be ordered in sets of 12 and above. Like the bib apron, you can choose the waist apron in one of several shades. Do not forget the gloves and other kitchen accessories that aid your oven cooking and food carving. These are available as part of the roasting kit.

WOKing Hard

Asian Cookware
Chinese fast food or other Oriental cuisines find a regular place in most restaurants. If Asian cuisines figure on your menu, you will have to procure a wok and related accessories. Choose the wok according to the width of the wok you require. Johnson-Rose Corp. offers woks with the width ranging from 12 inches to 28 inches. Along with a wok, you would need a wok kit inclusive of ladles, cleaning brushes, skewers, turners, spoons and cleavers. You could also order these separately from Johnson-Rose Corp.’s Bamboo skewers – 6 inches to 12 inches in length; the Chinese cleaver; the Chinese turners, and the Serving spoons for serving rice.

Opening Shot

Can Openers
The cold beverages served along with your hot meals entail their own list of kitchen accessories – like bottle openers and can openers. You can choose from these tools from the Johnson-Rose Corp. range of nickel-plated and regular ones, available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

The Clean-up Job

Colander, Skimmer, Strainer
The actual cooking requires to be preceded by washing and cleaning ingredients like vegetables and meat, sieving the flour, skimming the liquid mixtures, and so on.
Johnson-Rose Corp. and Carlisle offer a set of colanders, skimmers and strainers to aid you in these kitchen jobs. Cooking pasta, for instance, requires straining the spaghetti, and removing the warm water in which the pasta is cooked. Carlisle’s spaghetti strainers are ideal for this purpose. Else, you could use the pasta cooker combo, or the pasta cooker insert from Carlisle. For frying vegetables or chicken, use skimmers from Johnson-Rose Corp. or Carlisle. These skimmers or sieves in stainless steel or aluminum can be used for draining the oil out of the French fries or chicken nuggets, and are available in various sizes according to your cooking needs. Mixing vegetables and condiments in the preparation of salads is also a tedious job. Go for an electric or a manually operated salad spinner offered by Dynamic. For washing vegetables and straining pasta, you could use a colander from Johnson-Rose Corp. or Carlisle. These colanders are essentially bowls made of aluminum or stainless steel, placed on stands. Perforated with tiny holes, these colanders allow the water or liquid used in the mixture or pasta to drain out easily.

Clean Chops

Cutting Boards, Cookware Racks
Cleaning and cutting poultry, or vegetables, requires a surface like a plastic or wooden board, usually called a cutting board or a chopping board. It aids activities like dicing carrots, chopping onions, slicing bread, and so on. San Jamar and Cres Cor offer a range of colored cutting boards in plastic. You could also pick up these chopping boards in various combinations, beginning with a minimum of six pieces per set. Johnson-Rose Corp. also offers white colored cutting boards, and carving boards in Canadian maple, for carving meat. Accessories with the cutting board include cutting board brushes, mats, and racks, from San Jamar and Johnson-Rose Corp. San Jamar also offers breadboards for all your bakery needs, and a cutting board storage stand to stack up your cooking boards.

Dishers, Scoops and Spades
Portions have to be just right when you serve your guests. You simply cannot do without dishers and scoops that are accurately manufactured, so that you give out the right quantity from the beginning till the end– accurate ingredients, and accurate servings. Choose individual dishers from size 6 to size 40. Or go for a combination of dishers. Johnson-Rose Corp. and Hamilton Beach offer a wide range of dishers – antimicrobial and regular – and these can be ordered in sets of 12 and above. Perforated spoons, ladles, pasta forks, portion servers, salad spoons, and regular serving spoons are available from Carlisle. You can pick these up in different shades and sizes, and order in sets of 12 and more, on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Dishwashing, Warehousing
After investing so much money in acquiring expensive crockery and silverware, you wouldn’t want it to be mishandled by your staff. Get a silverware cylinder from Carlisle to stock your silverware. Bowls, glasses and cups could be washed and stacked in dishwasher cup racks and glass racks. Tall glasses used for serving wine can be stacked in the rack for tall glasses. Similarly, plates need a separate plate stack. These dishwasher accessories are offered by Carlisle in mobile trolley or dolly form with or without handles.
Flatware also makes for the most used of restaurant supplies. For your spoons and forks, pick up a flatware-washing basket. Pick up an L-tip kettle brush that will help with cleaning your tea and coffee dispensers and kettles.

Hand it over

Fabric Items
Baking and other oven jobs need constant maneuvering of hot dishes in and out of the oven. You need to exercise caution with such activity involving excessively high temperatures. Mittens and oven pads are accessories that will prove to be helpful in the bakery. Even while cooking on the range or hotplates, you would need pot holders in thick fabric to carry the pots off the range, or for serving. Johnson-Rose Corp. offers these potholders, bakers’ pads, and kitchen mittens. Mittens are available in the silicone variety, the high-heat variety or as the regular ones.

Food Storage Containers
Another useful kitchen supplies include food containers. These plastics in your kitchen will tend to your storage needs. Whether you store them inside the refrigerator, or outside on the shelves, the food items like vegetables, herbs, fruits, and others, need to be carefully sealed inside food grade plastic boxes. Carlisle offers storage containers in different sizes, shapes and colors, with or without lids. Some of these come with lock tight lids, for storing liquids, or for preserving the contents for longer. For all your liquid refrigeration needs, San Jamar offers Rapid Cool Cold Paddles.

Blow Hot, Blow Cold

Fry Pans, Fryer Accessories
For all your sautéing and frying requirements, pick up fry pans and other frying accessories available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com. These pans are available in stainless steel, and aluminum with or without non-stick coating. Besides the regular fry pans available in various sizes, DuraCool pans, French Style Gauge pans, and Sauté pans are also available from Johnson-Rose Corp. and Carlisle.
Apart from the pan, you would need accessories while cooking with oil – like the fry basket, the fryer brush, the fryer cone, and the fryer cloth filter cone in rayon. Winco and Carlisle offer these fryer accessories.

Ice Buckets
In the restaurant business, you would need to stock up on ice. Cambro offers an ice caddy, with a 125 pound capacity, in colors like gray, dark brown, coffee beige, black, granite green, granite gray and slate blue. San Jamar also offers totes to carry ice.

Ingredient Bins
Storing dough and other cooking ingredients in huge quantities necessitates use of ingredient bins with bigger capacity than usual storage supplies. The capacity of these mobile ingredient bins, offered by Cambro, ranges from 26.7 gallons to 42.5 gallons.

Measuring Cups and Spoons
A tablespoon of salt instead of a teaspoon of the same could ruin your recipe.
It’s not without reason that cooking activities like baking a cake, or preparing any other dish in the kitchen, entail that you stick to the quantity of each ingredient as prescribed in the recipe. This requires measurement through kitchen utensils like a measuring cup or a spoon. Johnson-Rose Corp., Cambro and Carlisle offer basting spoons and baker’s cups in precise, measured capacity. Sets of measuring spoons, measuring cups, are also available on AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Mixing Bowls
Mixing ingredients according to your recipes will require convenient mixing bowls. Regular bowls are available in melamine as well as stainless steel, form Carlisle and Johnson-Rose Corp. For larger quantities, you should go in for the bigger mixing machine bowls with a 20 quarter to an 80-quarter capacity. Small ware commercial kits consisting of mixing bowls, fry pans, knives, ladles, mixing spoons, and other small ware are available from Johnson-Rose Corp.

Order Wheels, Racks, Bells
If you leave a stamp of your unique style on every aspect of your restaurant business, how can you afford to ignore the place where it all begins? Taking the order, and getting it to the kitchen, serving the order, and finally billing the customer – all of these activities are complemented by accessories like a call bell, a check wheel, a check holder spindle, a check wheel counter mount, an order holder bar, and a slide check rack. San Jamar and Johnson-Rose Corp. offer a variety of these accessories that could help with the smooth and organized flow of your business.

Roasting Pans
Your search for the best roasting accessories ends at AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Carlisle offers pans and roasting kits. The roasting kit includes a pepper crusher, roast pans; cooking gloves, roast fork, and other accessories. Roast pans or bake pans are also available separately from Carlisle and Johnson-Rose Corp, in different dimensions, for your specific roasting needs. The brazier pots can be purchased with or without the lids.

Sauce Bottles, Sauce Pots
White sauce, mustard or tomato ketchup – the stuff that makes it to the top of your pasta and fries – more often than not comes out of a squeezable sauce bottle. Get hold of different colored squeezable bottles from Trafex. These come in single tip, twin tip and tri-tip head options.
Cooking sauces and gravies require saucepans, sauce-pots, and sometimes, double boilers. Carlisle and Johnson-Rose Corp. offer saucepans and pots with or without lids, in aluminum and steel.

Scales, Thermometers, Timers
The right amount of flour and the right quantity of butter listed in your pastry recipe will be hard to deliver without a weighing scale. On the other hand, at your sales end, it is imperative that you weigh and measure the portions for sale, at your concession counter for instance. Kitchen equipments include weighing scales known as portion scales, and electronic scales for computing prices. In the business of selling canned or packaged food products, you would also need a label printing scale. Electronic, digital and regular scales are available from Johnson-Rose Corp., Pelouze, and Globe. Similarly, timing your cooking – soaking the rice, baking the pasta, steaming the vegetables, and so on – is as essential in getting the perfect dish for your guest, as measurement and weights. Programmable digital fryer timers, thermometers, and digital timer watches and stopwatches from Carlisle and Pelouze are available at AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Mundial and Pelouze offer a range of thermometers – digital, dial, infrared, and pocket varieties – to measure the oven temperature, and meat storage and cooking temperature.

Sheet Trays, Pans
Oven cooking requires specialized pans and trays, made for the high heat conditions for baking activity. Carlisle and Johnson-Rose Corp. offer bakery equipment like bun pans, baking sheets and trays, and buffet display pans, in sets of twelve pieces. The buffet display pans can be picked up in pebble grain finish, or in aluminite pebble grain finish, or in gold pebble grain finish. A full size sheet pan would be 18 inches wide and 26 inches long, and is ideal for display needs in bakeries and restaurants. A portion control scale is a useful addition to the kitchen equipment list. Cambro and Carlisle offer a range of measuring cups in plastic, and ladles, and Johnson-Rose Corp. offers elegant wooden spoons and an urn measure in stainless steel with a capacity of 4 quarters.

Shredder, Grinder, Chopper
Chopping and grinding, mixing and grating – the Chef needs as much assistance as possible, in preparing the orders, and any help from a machine would do. A mandolin would be just as useful in your kitchen as a mechanized food processor, if you have a trained hand on the vegetable slicer. Johnson-Rose Corp. offers mandolins in stainless steel. Waring offers a range of commercial food processors, and choppers and grinder units. You could also pick up a tomato slicer in stainless steel.

Steam Table Pans
For buffet food service, you will need steam table pans from Carlisle, Cadco and Johnson-Rose Corp. Perforated pans and steam pans with or without lids are available in stainless steel.

Utensils – Cooking, Kitchen
For all the knick-knacks and all other small needs in the kitchen, come to AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Pick up basting brushes, grill grease brushes, high heat scrapers, spatulas, oven brushes, pastry brushes, turners, utility tongs, wire brushes, bowl scrapers, steak weights, and skimmers. Johnson-Rose Corp., Carlisle and Mundial offer these kitchen utensils. Johnson-Rose Corp. also offers commercial small ware kits that include several pieces of these utensils.

Apart from these cooking utensils, a host of other kitchen equipments and kitchen supplies can be ordered from AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

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