There is nothing quite like the buzz of a restaurant kitchen during lunchtime orders. The pressure to feed your customers quality food as quickly as possible can see the pressure inside the kitchen increase to boiling point. Chefs and their sous chefs need all the help they can get, and thankfully there is a range of technology to take the weight off your staff’s shoulders. Here we will look at a number of top tech inventions for a commercial kitchen.
Smart scales and food-tracking gadgets
Drop Kitchen Connected Weighing Scales
The Drop Kitchen Connected Scale and Recipe App make the perfect combination for the commercial baker. The scales link to an app on a phone or tablet via Wi-Fi, and it offers suggestions if you’re short of an ingredient.
DaysAgo
Do you find your business is always throwing food out, as you can’t remember when you first opened that jar or bottle? If that’s you, then you need a DaysAgo digital counter that will automatically and accurately tell you how long your food has been open for.
Smart appliances for the kitchen
Samsung Family Hub Multi-Door Fridge
This American-style fridge-freezer has a mind all of its own thanks to the smart display unit built into it. Watch TV or listen to the radio, order directly from wholesalers from your fridge with built-in apps and monitor the freshness of food through an internal camera.
Below Ground Grease Trap
Grease blocking sinks and pipes after washing dishes and appliances is a real headache. However, below ground grease traps are an intelligent way to separate grease and food waste from your water. These grease traps, available at sites such as http://www.ukgreasetrapsdirect.co.uk/, are particularly handy if you own a large kitchen that serves a lot of covers.
Keeping the kitchen efficient and fresh-smelling
Smart Kettle
It’s estimated we waste up to two days a year simply waiting for the kettle to boil. Just think what your staff could have done with those two days! The smart kettle, which links to an app on a phone or tablet, allows you to pre-boil a kettle so your water is piping hot when you need it.
Catersave Europe Odour Management System
This system uses plant-based liquid to destroy odour molecules within your kitchen ducting. It’s the only system available that cleans the air and directly targets the nasty smells that permeate from your restaurant’s kitchen.
Summary
This article rounds up gadgets designed to make commercial kitchens run more efficiently, including Wi-Fi connected weighing scales that suggest recipe substitutions, a digital counter that tracks how long opened food has been kept, a smart fridge with built-in apps and an internal camera, a below-ground grease trap, a kettle that can be pre-boiled remotely, and an odour management system for kitchen ducting.
Questions this article raises
- How much do these smart kitchen devices typically cost to install?
- Which of these gadgets saves a commercial kitchen the most staff time?
- Are any of these systems difficult to maintain or clean over time?
