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Posted by: Neil Willis | Friday, October 28, 2016
This week's fresh serve of news from around the Catering & Restaurant Industry.
Keep update with latest Products in Catering Equipment & Restaurant Equipment, Food Trends, & Business Tips from around the web.
Gordon Ramsay may be British, but the shouty chef has no shortage of opinions on the great American holiday that is Halloween. Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Kitchen Nightmares star presented his picks for the worst kinds of Halloween candy, from the dusty travesties that are Smarties to those weird orange circus peanuts, which Ramsay speculates are actually "clown shit,"" (Seriously, who buys those?)...
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Gordon Ramsay Ranks the Absolute Worst Types of Halloween CandyThe difference with induction cooking is that heat is generated by the pan itself. | Credit: Vollrath
In the kitchen, energy efficiency can be defined as the ratio between the energy that shows up on your gas or power bill and the energy being applied to the food you’re cooking. When using a gas stove, you’re using thermal conduction to heat the area around your cooking pot or pan and eventually heat that cooking vessel to the desired temperature. This can all become very inefficient when you consider the amount of heat that is wasted by just floating into the air and turning your kitchen into a sauna.
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Induction Cooking With Vollrath
But what is ice cream, as its most basic? American-style ice cream is a base of cream, milk, sugar, and often eggs that is cooked, cooled, and then churned in a frozen container until it partially freezes while air is incorporated, yielding a frozen but creamy treat. The ratio of dairy fat to sugar is crucial to the product’s final texture. Flavorings like vanilla and chocolate are usually added before the ice cream base is churned. Philadelphia-style ice cream does not contain eggs and is usually sweeter. Milk ice is made without cream; French-style ice cream is always made with cream and eggs; Italian gelato is made with more milk than cream and does not always contain eggs...
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The Ultimate Ice Cream Glossary, A to ZVisual content is an essential component of social media marketing. The images that we choose for our posts and our Facebook Ads say a lot about our business, so we need high quality, interesting, and attention-grabbing images to support our content.
These images, however, can be expensive to create and require a high skill set and a ton of time. The answer is stock photos, and it’s possible to find free pictures for Facebook.
(I wasn't sure I was going share my Images secret, but what the heck!)
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The 11 Places to Find Free Pictures for Facebook
We frequently hosts chefs from around the world in the MUNCHIES Kitchen, where they often go full soigné and turn out Michelin star-worthy dishes like pine nut semifreddo sprinkled with pine bud extract and gelatinized pig’s blood with rhubarb foam.
Delicious, but not exactly Wednesday night meals, are they?
So we conceived of the Workaholics column, giving chefs a little bit of breathing room to show us their skills with the kinds of meals they like to eat after a grueling shift.
Patty melts. Steamed chicken. Steak and potatoes. You get the idea.
And then along came Curtis Stone, determined to show everybody up—and boy, did he ever.
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The How to Make the Most Epic Sandwich of Your Life
Food trends, energy and water conservation, food waste reduction and supply chain sourcing were a few of the topics discussed at our first-ever Sustainability Executive Study Group meeting.
The meeting, held Oct. 19, brought together restaurant sustainability experts, industry suppliers and manufacturers and non-governmental organizations. They talked about Americans' growing interest in sustainability, how that's changing consumer behavior, and what it means for restaurants. Here are a few takeaways...
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Is sustainability on your menu?
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