Choose food process equipment and cook by yourself for healthy cooking

July 13th, 2010

    Our reliance on processed foods is a major factor in the nation’s alarming obesity rate and other health challenges, what can home cooks do to reduce this reliance and still get food on the table quickly and conveniently? One answer may lie not in the pantry, but elsewhere in the kitchen cupboard.

    So many Americans own food processors, blenders and stand mixers they keep hidden away, and too few use them on an everyday basis to process foods the healthy way, It often takes just a few minutes more to assemble fresh ingredients and mix them versus opening a box of pre-mixed ingredients, yet the difference in quality and healthfulness can be enormous.

    Some of the fastest and easiest homemade alternatives to store bought foods include coleslaw made in a food processor with less mayonnaise, salsa made in a blender with less sodium, and a simple “quick bread” dough mixed in a stand mixer with no hydrogenated fats or preservatives.

    Those interested in taking serious charge of what they eat can take things a step further. For example, the hard-working KitchenAid stand mixer, found in more than 10 million American homes, has been the preferred tool for generations of bakers unimpressed with packaged cake mixes. The mixer can even be outfitted with optional attachments for grinding grain, making homemade sausages and burgers (including reduced fat turkey and chicken varieties), and making pasta from whole grains.

    The secret is to leave these appliances on the countertop as a constant reminder to use them, They’re practical, they come in great colors and finishes, and keeping them visible is the best way to ensure they get used.

     For healthful recipes that use a blender (Spanish Tomato Gazpacho), food processor (Onion and White Bean Spread) and stand mixer (Whole Grain Wheat Bread).

    Since the introduction of its legendary stand mixer in 1919 and first dishwasher in 1949, KitchenAid has built on the legacy of these icons to create a complete line of products designed for cooks. Over 90 years later, the KitchenAid brand now offers virtually every essential for the well-equipped kitchen with a collection that includes everything from countertop appliances to cookware, ranges to refrigerators, and whisks to wine cellars. To learn why chefs choose KitchenAid for their homes more than any other brand.

    Based on a September 2010 survey, KitchenAid was found to be the home kitchen appliance brand chosen most often by members of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the American Culinary Federation when asked about refrigerators, ovens, cooktops, ranges, dishwashers, microwave ovens, electric mixers, blenders, food processors, kitchen gadgets and toasters.

cautions in buying process eqiupment

July 13th, 2010

      Design video surveillance system is a relatively special system, main requirements and cost of large capacity, otherwise not so big money to build around the country, and even the monitoring system. So choose large capacity of low cost IP storage is monitoring system itself characteristics and requirement, also can ensure the decision system security.
    Configuration choice according to the monitoring system of the storage capacity of considering the size of storage equipment capacity, in addition to camera quantity, and video format, bitrate, number of storage.
    Camera quantity, bitrate, storage time according to actual situation to choose. Due to the monitoring field of system integration, no professional engineer for storage and storage industry is not so proposal systems integrators in choosing storage devices, pay attention to the following:
     The management and maintenance of the equipment should be very simple Choose the embedded Web management function, need not in the management of equipment installation software, the terminal equipment can be anywhere on the installation, commissioning, maintenance rise very simple. ERASTOR all the devices are not need professional engineer to installation and debugging, stored in the phone support ERASTOR engineers, 5 minutes can teach system integrator engineer or how the user installation debugging their equipment.
     Choose the equipment quality is stable Storage system is stable and reliable is the overriding, especially systems integrators and users are not professional storage hardware engineer, under the situation of safety and stability of the equipment is more important. If a product is not stable, often happened a few problems, so the cost of maintenance will be very high. The so-called Cable – the whole structure is not a piece of equipment, controller, power Cable, fan, backplane, drive the connection between all boards. Because the number of hard disk array, heat transfer, and many of the signal frequency signal is a long time, the metal alloy, cable ends for oxidation of signal attenuation, lead to instability. Store the stability of the products and the production process is very big, from the production process can be printed circuit components, between neatly on condition that error space craft. For example, hard disk brackets and slot between firmness and cohesion of hard disk life is very big. Because of the hard disk drive in high-speed rotating, if does not follow up tight disk vibration, which will greatly reduce the hard disk life. Additional, if the backplane process difference means the voltage and current volatility is bigger, also can make the hard disk life discount, the system will often malfunction.
     Select intelligence high storage devices What is the function of Roaming? For example, I have five pieces of data exist 2TB 500GB disk as a group, if the RAID on the equipment, the five pieces of hard disk can be drawn into the same series, any device, can read these data. The maximum protection function of the user’s data security, to buy more of the same brand is particularly useful equipment user. Virtual volume technology was used in high-end storage products is a kind of technology. Because of the virtual volume of practical, technology, more flexibility to meet customer demand of application of storage, thus being increasingly used in storage products low-end. If client has 3 kinds of above of data, need different security protection level, and unit of data transmission speed and size is different also, when ordinary disk array of storage to meet customer demand, and adopts the technology of virtual volume can satisfy application needs array.

Clean Air Act is used in baking and cooking process

July 7th, 2010

      The Clean Air Act has been developed for use in a large variety of baking and cooking processes. The system provides the perfect combination of vapor extraction and cleaning, and has many food industry applications. It is able to reduce vapor pollution from the emissions by 75 percent.

     The pollution from the vapor emissions is transformed into a biodegradable residue, which benefits the environment, your employees and neighbors and your profits.

      The unit has a variable ventilator that pulls out all the vapors released in the cooking process, so that the working area can be kept free from any irritating and greasy air.

     The Clean Air Act can be used in a combination with a variety of food processing equipment, including: oil fryers; hot air spiral ovens ;hot air tunnels ;grill markers; infrared ovens; open flame systems; belt grill systems; steam tunnels; smoke houses,etc.

Food Styler : revolutionary development in the field of grill-marking and char-marking

June 28th, 2010

     The Food Styler can create lines, squares and even logos on a wide range of products. it is a revolutionary development in the field of grill-marking and char-marking in the food industry.
     The contact-free application of lines and patterns means that the product is not pressed, so that loss of moisture is kept to a minimum. The variable and precise capacity settings allows lines and logos to be applied to the product.

    The Food Styler is easy to operate. Setting new programs is an effortless procedure, the Food Styler is very flexible and can ‘burn’ any type of pattern onto your product. The Food Styler can be used as a stand-alone unit or integrated into a production line. Startup and shutdown times are reduced to a minimum. The Food Styler system prevents any smoke and odours in the working area. Food Styler can be your best choice in food industry.

High speed link cooker : the best food processing equipment for sausage

June 21st, 2010

       The unique High Speed Link Cooker provides a very fast method of cooking a line of sausage products. With the High Speed Link Cooker, a high capacity of products can be cooked and browned in a continuous process.
       In the cooking zone of the High Speed Link Cooker, the product is heated simultaneously on all sides, so that maximum temperature transfer takes place. The fast exchange of energy supply and cooling ensures minimum shrinkage of the product, without any burning on the surface. Thanks to the variation in energy supply, the operator can decide whether to give the product a lighter or darker colour.
      The sophisticated transport system means that any damage to the product is kept to a minimum. The product is fed directly from the extrusion head into the cooking zone from the High Speed Link Cooker. From the discharge, the product is clamped between two bands, creating a push-pull transport system, which ensures that the product retains its optimal shape.

cycle for your supper

June 17th, 2010

A Danish hotel is pioneering a pedal-power electricity generation scheme it hopes will catch on in other countries.

The Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers, 15 minutes from the centre of the Danish capital and five minutes from Scandinavia’s main airport, is installing two exercise bicycles hooked up to generators.

Guests will be invited to jump on and start pedaling — and if they produce enough electricity they will be given a free meal.

From June, they will be able to race against the 366-room hotel’s solar panel system in a bid to produce the most electricity.

“Anyone producing 10 watt hours of electricity or more for the hotel will be given a locally produced complimentary meal encouraging guests to not only get fit but also reduce their carbon footprint and save electricity and money,” the hotel said in a statement.

Hotel spokeswoman Frederikke Tommergaard said the free meal offer applied only to paying guests, not passers-by.

The value of the meal — any one of the main courses on the hotel restaurant or lobby bar’s menu — is about 240 Danish crowns (28.50 pounds), she told Reuters.

The electric bikes will be up and running from April 19 and the plan is to test the idea for a year with a view to expanding it to more Crowne Plaza hotels, part of the InterContinental Hotels Group.

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June 9th, 2010

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