Commercial Catering Equipment VS Domestic Kitchen Appliances

Using domestic kitchen appliances in your commercial kitchen may seem like a great way to save money. However, it can in fact cost you much more in the longer term.

Here’s why commercial catering equipment comes with a higher price tag and why it’s important that you have the right equipment for the job:

Capacity

The most obvious difference between commercial and domestic catering equipment is size. Domestic appliances tend to be tiny in comparison with their commercial counterparts!

This is because professional kitchens in restaurants, pubs and cafes etc. provide large quantities of food to a lot of people over a prolonged period of time. You must make sure that your kitchen is equipped to cope with this huge workload. If it isn’t, your efficiency will be compromised which may have a detrimental impact on your service to customers.

Quality

Your domestic microwave may still be going strong after 5 years, however, put it into a commercial kitchen environment and it might last 5 months at most. This is because, you may use your microwave at home a couple of times a day, but a microwave in a busy restaurant kitchen could be used hundreds of times a day. Therefore, the appliance would deteriorate much more quickly.

Commercial catering equipment is specifically designed and manufactured to cope with this high level of use. This means that commercial equipment has a much longer life time than domestic equipment.

Features

Commercial catering equipment comes with a range of features specially designed for a busy kitchen environment. For example, a domestic fridge is only designed to be opened a few times a day. If it was opened too many times, it would struggle to maintain the required temperature. However, a commercial fridge has features that allows it to maintain a constant temperature – even when it is opened and closed frequently. This keeps the food inside it at a constant temperature and, therefore, fresher for longer.

Precision

Food prepared in a commercial kitchen is expected to be top notch. This requires very detailed precision! For example, food must be cooked at a very exact temperature for a specific amount of time, food must be stored at a precise temperature, vegetables must be sliced to exact dimensions etc. Commercial catering equipment is set up to cope with these very precise requirements and can perform over a long period of time.

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