By Lee Davis This week we celebrated National Crepe Day. On vacation in southern France years ago, I started out in the Pyrenees Mountains, a quaint and scenic region that time seems to have forgotten. It’s dotted with medieval castles, abbeys, farms and small villages. My first night…
By Matt Kurnick Gone are the days when a simple glazed donut is enough of a treat to satisfy the collective sweet tooth of so many. Starting as an emerging trend in 2012, the last couple of years have seen upscale donuts and upscale donut shops prove themselves…
By Lee Davis I’d like to share a story with you about a friend we’ll call “Tom” who was recently hired as a prep cook-trainee at the local family restaurant in town. Early on during his time there, Tom was told to thaw six chickens. Tom went to…
By Lee Davis The first question most people ask when purchasing commercial frying pans is: stainless steel or aluminum? There are a few other materials commonly used to manufacture frying pans, such as carbon steel, cast iron, copper and even enamel, but the vast majority of what you…
By Matt Kurnick It’s important to take good care of your equipment. My dad was the first to teach me this lesson, and it was in the context of my most prized piece of baseball equipment. After getting my first all-leather baseball mitt he taught me to properly…
By Lee Davis In one of the many restaurants where I worked, you could always find a cutting board in the big pile of cutting boards on a shelf below the prep counter. They were stacked somewhat precariously, surfaces touching each other, and with no air circulation for…
By Carla Landi Chef Brad Johnson of Hefner Grill, a member of the Hal Smith Restaurant Group, combines concept, passion and the right equipment. Chef Brad Johnson is the man who creates the culinary masterpieces that customers of the Hefner Grill, a member of the Hal Smith Restaurant…
As we get into the new year, we wanted to take this opportunity to review some of the changes made last year to ServSafe® best practices. ServSafe best practices are an important part of ensuring that any commercial kitchen produces the safest food possible. It’s important for customers…
Delfield’s multifunctional equipment stands work for every application. They can act as refrigerators or freezers. And with Delfield’s VersaDrawerTM they can be all-in-one. The VersaDrawerTM design provides separate drawers that can function as a refrigerator, freezer, chill cabinet or thaw cabinet. Equipment stands with VersaDrawerTM functionality come with…
By Matt Kurnick Recently, it’s likely you have experienced food described with any combination of the following buzzwords: local, organic, farm-to-table, or natural. And if you haven’t yet, you will. The challenge for foodservice operators that produce food that fits under this umbrella is to serve it on…