Kitchen Equipment

“The kitchen is a country in which there are always discoveries to be made.”
These words by 18th century French food critic, Grimod de la Reyniere, would inspire many a Chef across the world. And in the business of food, innovation is as important as consistency in delivering the items on the menu. New discoveries can be made, and dishes improvised, in a space that harbors talent, and is fully equipped for such activities. As a restaurateur, you should encourage the development of the kitchen space as a place to innovate, and grow. You never know what your Chefs may discover and deliver. Begin by creating the right space by acquiring the right kind of kitchen equipment. And we can help you do that at AppleRestaurantSupply.com.

Mobile Kitchen

Carts, Shelving & Storage
In the restaurant kitchen, you will need storage space, and mobile equipment for delivering the goods prepared in the kitchen to the service counters or guests’ tables. There is a host of mobile carts available from IRSG to do this mobile delivery – like the Catering banquet delivery cart – available in different sizes according to your storage and transfer needs.
The food has to be served hot, and in warm dishes. The heated dish dolly from Cres Cor will help in delivering warm dishes in large numbers. The dolly is a mobile storage cart. Carlisle offers a dolly for carrying dish racks with or without the handles for towing the huge dolly. The dough press cart is a mobile cart with a flat top surface for pressing dough balls – that can be stored in the dough ball storage cart from DoughXpress. The temperature requirements in the catering business do not end at the warm end, though. Cooler beverages require a steady supply of ice cubes. The ice storage requirements in your bar or kitchen can be taken care of by the Ice caddy. Cambro offers ice caddies in these colors – black, dark brown, coffee beige, gray, granite gray, granite green, and slate blue. Apart from the hot and cold temperature needs in the catering business, a steady supply of glasses and cups should be available for the beverage requirements. Dispensers like the Lowerator cup and glass dispensers from APWwyott are ideal for such requirements. IRSG and Winco offer other carts for storing and moving kitchen equipment like the mobile wire cart, utility cart, stationary security unit, sheet pan rack, and starter wire shelving kits.
Besides carts, restaurant kitchens usually stack up food items like buns, dough balls, cakes and breads in trays on huge racks, stacked on wheels, for easy mobility around the space. AppleRestaurantSupply.com gives you a choice between racks from DoughXPress, Gold Medal, Johnson-Rose Corp, Cres Cor and WinCo.
Other storage accessories include an add-on wire shelving unit, a correctional Queen Mary cart, a Cutting board storage stand, a wall mounting microwave shelf, a mobile wire cart, a regular Queen Mary cart, and a slanted shelf merchandiser display – offered by IRSG, Cecilware, San Jamar, Cres Cor, and Johnson-Rose Corp.

The Clean-Up Act

Dishwashing/ Ware washing, Equipment Stands, Sinks & Faucets
After investing so much money in acquiring expensive crockery and silverware, the last thing you want is some careless staff member breaking it while washing or handling. 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 from Carlisle, or flatware retriever fits from San Jamar. Pick up an L-tip kettle brush that will help with cleaning your tea and coffee dispensers and kettles.
For the more sensitive of your kitchen utensils, Insinger offers low temperature dishwasher with options to wash 30 racks and 60 racks per hour. Choose between the under counter and stand-alone options.
For the rest of your kitchen equipment, pick up equipment stands – 22 by 23 inches to 30 by 60 inches. Imperial, Cecilware, and StellarSteam offer a variety of such stands, like the mobile economy steamer stand with or without slide out shelf.
Fitting in a sink into your kitchen or bar counter is the next requirement. A steady supply of water that aids cleaning of utensils, and washing vegetables, draining liquids, and mixing drinks, and so on. Cres Cor, Cold Tech and BK Resources offer hand sinks, hand washing sinks with or without a faucet, a prep sink, a pre-rinse, a sink with a deep compartment, sinks with multiple – 2, 3 or 4 compartments, and sinks with two drain boards, among others.

Food Blenders, Food Processors, Mixers, Accessories & Auto Peelers
Liquefying, blending and pureeing activities in the kitchen and at the bar counter, require a range of blenders, mixers, food processors and the like. Waring and Dynamic offer the following range of mixers and accessories – Big Stix Immersion blender, blender containers, clutch repair kits, and commercial food blenders. The DynaCoupe vegetable slicer and grinder aid the slicing activities in the kitchen. The DynaJuicer citrus juicer steps in for juice extraction. The food blender – with a one-gallon capacity and a self-timer – will help reduce the food preparation time. The other range of mixers includes the beverage blender, a junior mixer – with variable speed, the master mixer – with a single speed, and variable speed options. You can pick up the mixer units separately, a ricer attachment, or a 3 function mixer, a whisk and ricer, a whisk tool only, a Handy mixer – in a single speed option, Pro long mixer – in a single speed, a Pro mixer – single speed, a Quik Stik Plus immersion blender, a Senior mixer – single speed, a Senor salsa, a Single mixer – single speed, support bracket, or an Xtreme hi-power blender. We have very specific blending solutions for your specific kitchen equipment needs.

Heat Lamps
Roast turkey and other kinds of roast meat are usually carved at the carving stations with single or twin heat lamps. The contraptions are in different arm-length options for the lamp and the size of the carving board.
These carving stations can be ordered online on AppleRestaurantSupply.com. Here, you can choose from the range of kitchen equipment from Carlisle or Cres Cor.

Slicers, Small Appliances
Salad preparation and other dishes require slicing vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, and others. A food slicer would be a useful piece of kitchen equipment here. The food slicer is available with various blade size options – 9 inch, 10 inch, and 12 inch. If you prefer to do the cooking with your own hands, go for the manual slicer available in the following dimensions – 9 inch, 12 inch, or a 13-inch diameter. Slicers are also available in the heavy duty 10 inch, or the nine speed auto slicer with a 13 inch diameter or the slicers with blade width – 10 inch and 12 inch in the heavy duty make. Anvil, Globe and Cecilware offer a variety of slicers including the 12-inch space saver and the stainless tomato slicer.
Other small appliances that are extremely useful in the restaurant kitchen are the toasters. APWwyott, Waring, Anvil and Equipex offer a whole range of commercial toasters – the Bagel Master toaster, the Combination toaster, the Conveyor toaster, and the Xtreme Conveyor toaster.
Sandwich grills make for the other useful small kitchen appliance that requires less space and is a time-saver in a busy kitchen, like the Panini gill and the Sandwich grill.
Other appliances with specific use in the kitchen include the Crepe kit, the food blender, the food processor, the meat grinder, the Sodir crepe machine, the plunger set, the Sodir Gyro grill, the Xtreme Hi-Power blender, and the Belgian waffle maker.

Steam Tables, Warming Equipment, Worktables
Heating is an essential part of cooking. And even after the food is cooked, it needs to be kept warm – right up till it is served. Anvil and Supreme Metal offer food warmers, and electrically heated hot food tables – in 2 well, 3 well and 5 well options – according to the service requirements.
Other warming equipments used in buffet service include the Cooker warmer countertop, the Countertop food and soup warmer, the regular Food warmer.
For the concession counter sales, pick up a hot food merchandiser countertop, a fry station, a soup cooker, or a soup warmer from APWwyott or Anvil.
The bakery kitchen witnesses a lot of action on the preparation table. Even the roast meat carving requires table top activity. Get hold of Bakery preparation tables or the regular worktables. For the wet activities in the kitchen, get hold of a worktable with or without backsplash – from John BOOS, BK Resources, Cold Tech or Cecilware.

For all the kitchen equipments listed here, or for any other restaurant and kitchen supplies, feel free to get in touch with us. At AppleRestaurantSupply.com, we specialize in providing solutions for all your catering requirements.