Catering supplies start with quality

If you are planning to start a catering business or just want to add more equipment to what you already have, quality is the most important thing to consider when buying catering supplies. Since your catering business involved a lot of capital layout, you want to buy tools and equipment that will last for long, equipment that will be able to give you a return to the investment before you replace them.

High quality and efficient supplies for your catering mean better overall performance and increased output.

Catering supplies

As with any other equipment, quality catering supplies come for a price, however, this also means less maintenance and operational costs in the long run. If you want to succeed in your catering business, investing in top premium products is advisable to set your catering business for great success.

There is a wide pool of catering supplies you can choose from and this is where you need to have some sort of inside knowledge in order to be able to pick the right equipment and tools. If you are looking to replace equipment, maybe it is old or low-quality; you might already have a clear idea of what to look for in the right product. However, for those buying for the first time, the whole process can be confusing and overwhelming.

Basically, you want to buy supplies made from quality materials, and because it is a long-term investment that costs lots of money, be sure to ask for a warranty.

Catering supplies can also include such things as table settings, display, and décor, disposable supplies, transport supplies cooking and holding apparatus, serving equipment, and beverage supplies among others.

When buying new supplies for your commercial kitchen, the most important thing of all is the cost and ROI. It is important to take time and analyze the cost you will incur not only but also the cost of maintaining and running it.

Pizza ovens

Pizza ovens will help you cook delicious pizzas or baked cakes breads and other delicious foodstuffs. These pieces of equipment are available in a wide range of designs and sizes and come with a myriad of arrays. A pizza oven can be gas or wood-fired, can have wheels or barbecue function, and so on.

There are many features that make for a great pizza oven and knowing them can help you find the right supply for your catering business.

Wood-fired wood ovens are usually less costly but they can be demanding when it comes to cleaning. Gas-fired on the other hand is easier to use and delivers high performance, just like the wood-fired ovens.

If your commercial kitchen doesn’t have enough space to operate, you can go for a multi-purpose oven that combines a bunch of features, for instance, a pizza oven and a BBQ or a smoker.

Multipurpose pizza ovens are usually compact with a lightweight construction that makes them highly portable. They are usually engineered to be placed on top of a charcoal or gas BBQ. Seeing that you're running a catering business, a multi-purpose pizza oven might be a great addition for you as it will allow you to bake several pizzas at once or cook different types of food such as chestnuts, cakes, and bread.

But above all, you need a pizza oven that is highly portable so that you can transport it easily if you want to move from place to place. Most pizza ovens will come with accessories that enhance their functionality and performance. The most common feature of a pizza oven is wheels. The ovens are usually mounted on a wheeled trolley to enable easy movement.

Another important accessory is pizza peels, which allow you to put and remove your pizza from the oven safely. These accessories are usually made of steel or aluminum for easy cleaning.

Convection oven

A convection oven or a fan oven is a type of commercial oven that is used to cook food with even heat throughout the cabinet regardless of where the food is located within. Because of its fan, the heat is distributed uniformly throughout the oven, thus reducing preheating time as well as lower the overall cooking time.

The convection oven is also known for better browning because the hot air blows directly over the food surface, helping to render fat and brown faster compared to traditional ovens.

Although most convection ovens feature electric or gas set up, all of them must be connected to electricity to power the fan, thus it is wiser to just go for an electric convection oven over gas ovens, especially if you are running a commercial kitchen.

Whilst a convection oven is costlier than conventional ones, it is a quality appliance to have in your catering kitchen because of its numerous benefits.

There are different types of convection ovens, though they are generally divided into two categories – based on the fan placement and additional heating element and based on position or placement in the kitchen.

In the category of fan placement, you will find configurations such as regular convection and true convection oven. A regular convection oven is simply the traditional convection oven but with an additional fan at the back that helps with air circulation. This oven is known for blowing both cold and hot air to and from within the convection oven.

A true convection oven is an oven with a fan in addition to a third heating element at the back. Sometimes this type of oven is called a European convection oven. Another design difference between a regular convection oven and a true convection oven is that this one uses its fan to distribute heated air, resulting in uniformly cooked food.

In terms of oven placement in the kitchen, we have countertop and floor model convection ovens. Countertop ovens, as the name hints, can be placed on kitchen counters, tables, and raised ground or in an open space. These versions are usually compact and extremely portable, thus they are ideal for small spaces. Floor models on the other hand are a little bigger and therefore can accommodate large foods.