“Open as usual”
Charvet UK is issuing a statement reassuring Charvet users, distributors, kitchen houses and consultants that the company continues to run as usual. “The Charvet factory at Charavines in France continues to run and is supplying spare parts and manufacturing our heavy-duty cooking as normal,” says Charvet UK MD Wayne Cuomo. “However, we do not know what further restrictions the French government will place upon the workplace, so like everyone else, we await developments. “The spare parts operation continues to run as...
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POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER 2020 Look, touch and feel the weighty superiority of Charvet equipment on Stand: S-B6. Charvet heavy-duty equipment is the smart, sustainable choice for a professional cooking range: – There is a Charvet cook-line for every occasion, from large CPU and production kitchens, to show kitchens and poolside bars; gas, electric and induction.Charvet is built to be ‘smart’, using a traditional fully welded chassis for strength, ease of access and ongoing reliability.Charvet is also a sustainable choice....
read moreSee Charvet on stand P419 at HRC 2020
Charvet adds innovation and colour Charvet makes truly heavy-duty equipment packed full of features. We won’t be hard to spot as the stand centrepiece is a large, coloured Charvet bespoke range! Charvet specialises in tailoring coloured enamel panels also for the Pro700, 800 and 900 suites and matching Salamander. There are nine standard colours and virtually any colour you like can be tailored on request. Our reduced-depth Pro700 professional cooking modules – pasta cooker, open burners, chrome Plancha etc – are featuring on the stand...
read moreDevelopments in Care Home Catering
What are the latest developments in convection ovens, grills and steamers? Old fashioned Salamander grills often waste energy, but the new Charvet version has energy saving features which make it ideal for all-day use, often the case in care homes. Says Ian Clow, “The latest developments include Plate detection which saves approximately 30% energy by only turning up the heat from ‘standby’ to full power when a plate or tray is put under the grill. There are also two independent cooking areas, so one can be switched off during slack...
read moreLove Island for Langar Hall
There’s surprise as well as joy when the kitchen brigade at Langar Hall look over their new Charvet ONE Series cooking suite. The new ONE Series range is an island suite, replacing the old Charvet wall suite. Executive Head Chef Gary Booth: “When I walk into the kitchen, I still sometimes do a double-take when I see the new range because the old one had been in place for such a long-time. “The old Charvet cooking suite was an absolute workhorse, lasting some 22 years – we still have the bratt pan and its working fine. The...
read moreRestaurant Magazine Readers Choice Award 2020
The results from Restaurant magazine’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards have been revealed following a survey of professional chefs. Votes are cast in 24 categories and in Best Cooking Ranges, Charvet achieved a “Highly Commended” award for 2020, adding to an existing ‘Chefs Choice’ “Winner” for Charvet, awarded by readers of Restaurant Magazine for the quality of our Modular Heavy-Duty cooking appliances. This year’s survey collated more than 12,000 individual votes from across the independent and multiple restaurant...
read moreAnother sustainability case from Charvet
If you are looking for a new gas range, look out for the use of refractory cement around the heating elements. The cement withstands high temperatures and prevents the escape of heat, ‘focussing’ or directing the burner output onto the hotplate above and thus minimising energy wastage. The cement blocks are heavy, need extra engineering to keep them in place and are a cost that many of our competitors do not bear. But their use means energy saved! Charvet can use smaller rated gas burners but still achieve a similar heat output to some...
read moreSustainable cooking from Charvet
Cutting gas consumption on open burners. When using Charvet pan detectors, you could reduce gas usage by a conservative 50%, possibly more, and they will pay for themselves in 1 year, LPG users in 6 months! TO GET THE FULL PICTURE, WATCH THE FRENCH-MADE VIDEO HERE: Chefs love using gas and Charvet has developed an open gas burner that is about as energy saving as induction! The Charvet gas burner can have A pan detector built within which uses the same principle as induction by switching on and off automatically when a pan is put on or off...
read morePerfect low temperature cooking
Charvet is renowned for the cooking power of its ranges and cooking modules and has now launched Low Temperature Cooking. Working in combination with bains marie and available on the Pro700, 800 and 900 Series and bespoke ranges, Charvet has launched a drop-in Low Temperature Cooking unit featuring digital controls, automatic water filling and water agitation to ensure consistent temperatures. Says Charvet UK Sales Director Ian Clow, “Temperatures can be set to within 1degC, ensuring the sort of precision that chefs demand. The Pro700,...
read morePASTA COOKER, POACHER
There is no doubting the sheer power that comes with Charvet pasta cookers. At 11 kW for the electric and 13.5 kW for gas they have plenty of ‘grunt’ to suit the busiest of sites, but they are also very controllable thanks to a digital thermostat which also makes the Pasta Cooker ideal for other tasks such as sous vide poaching and slow-poached eggs. (For hygiene and ease of removal cook the eggs in a ziplock-style bag and attach the bag to the side of the bath with a clip or simply by resting the lid on top of the bag.) Cooking water is...
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