Every sphere of life has faced tremendous changes in the last year and a half. The one thing that is common to all, however, is the increased focus on adopting safety and hygiene practices across the board. Commercial food businesses like restaurants, canteens, caterers, etc, have had to adjust and adopt the latest available technology, in order to reassure their customers of safety.
Be it conducting regular temperature checks of the staff, frequent sanitisation of the kitchen, usage of masks, tamper proof packaging, etc, food establishments have left no stone unturned to announce the safety measures adopted by them, to every potential customer. While most of these measures are limited to before and after the cooking process, it is also important to maintain food safety during the cooking process. The key to this lies in utilising technology based cooking systems. Food businesses will benefit substantially in the current scenario by investing in the latest technology available to them. This will assure their patrons of safety and hygiene as well as reduce overall operational costs.
A trusted name that has been head and shoulders above the rest in this sphere, is RATIONAL International India—manufacturers of combi-steamers that make the job of cooking a large amount of delicious food easy, safe and hygienic.
Vikram Goel, Managing Director, RATIONAL India, shares: “We entered the Indian market in the year 2010. In our 11 years here, we have worked extensively to make customers aware of the benefits of the combi-steamer technology in commercial kitchen operations, through our live cooking sessions that are conducted weekly at multiple locations across India. We are headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana and our office premises consist of two test kitchens and a demo Café, where our customers can experience our leading product RATIONAL iCombi Pro live in action.”
The First RATIONAL combi-steamer was invented in 1976, and has since been updated with the evolving requirements of customers in mind. Their products are present in more than 120 countries with 32 international subsidiaries. In India, they can be found in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru through sales colleagues, and through their service network, chef support, and demonstration centres across all Tier 1 and 2, and a few Tier 3 cities as well.
This breakthrough technology has the following proprietary features that make the work done by chefs far easier than ever before—iCookingSuite for the most consistent results every time, iDensityControl to make large quantities of food, iProductionManager to streamline food production by offering the flexibility of cooking multiple items simultaneously, iCareSystem which is a self-cleaning feature, and ConnectedCooking which is an IOT based system through which units can be managed remotely.
Goel shares, “The reason that RATIONAL cooking systems are ahead of the game, is because its intelligent and touch-free hygienic cooking technology existed well before the pandemic. Our revolutionary yet compact combi-steamers are designed to prepare large quantities of food consistently without any hassle while also consuming less electricity. Its unique design and intelligent features further enable the equipment to steam, grill, poach, roast or bake various foods as per the requirement. The chef or the personnel handling the cooking system only needs to feed the desired cooking instructions in the unit’s user-friendly command panel. Further, its automatic HACCP analysis continuously monitors the food while it’s being cooked, doubly assuring that there is no contamination during the cooking process. Its ConnectedCooking feature stays in touch with the chef real-time through smartphones.”
RATIONAL iCombi Pro detects and notifies its owner when it requires a cleaning. Through its self-cleaning mode, on the press of a button, the unit cleans itself in a matter of minutes. In addition to this, the machine pays attention to temperature and cooking times, avoids cross contamination and washes the kitchen utensils with hot water.
Things are changing for the better in the food industry, and with its cutting-edge technology, RATIONAL is at the forefront of this change. When anyone buys a unit from this brand, they leave with the promise of being able to create delicious food that results in near perfection every time and is hygienically made, all the while cutting their own workload significantly.
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