what’s hidden on the inside that has won them a place in the most demanding kitchen environments, where volume and consistency without sacrificing even slightly on quality are core requirements. So, what are the killer features that allow not just chefs,
but also the specialist teams of operators in high-volume catering, to perform literal kitchen miracles; serving up not just a table of food but sometimes hundreds, even thousands of top notch individual meals with perfect consistency every time? Ian Leadbetter, National Corporate Chef for Rational
UK, is pretty clear on his favourite features, and with thousands of training sessions with aspiring chefs across the UK under his belt, he’s well placed to judge. “T ere’s a lot that your home oven has learned from
commercial appliances, but the features get watered down considerably,” said Ian. “Your oven at home might claim to clean itself, but in practice, this usually means a high temperature setting that bakes the dirt until it can be easily (and manually) removed. Rational’s iCare System knows exactly how clean or dirty your oven is and uses a cartridge-based cleaning system with safe chemicals at just the right dose for a fully hygienic clean that leaves your oven looking brand new every time. All completely automated. “Some ovens have a temperature probe, so you can select
a programme that cooks a product to a particular tempera- ture, which is okay, but it’s a set process, whereas the intel- ligent Rational oven uses Processes instead of Programmes. Everything is constantly monitored and adjusted; time, temperature, moisture - it’s all controlled centrally.”
T ere are a lot of features to talk about: fresh, hygienic
steam directly from the main water supply, the higher temperatures you can reach, it’s all useful, but the thing that nothing in your own kitchen is likely to reproduce for a long, long time is iProductionManager, a combination of software smarts and raw cooking power. Ian describes how he can cook sausages, bacon, tomato, hash browns, fried egg, and even toast all in the same combination oven, all at the same time, all cooking with diff ering monitored pro- cesses and all finishing in perfect unison in six minutes. A full English at the press of a button, and perfect every time. “It’s kind of ridiculous, really, and anyone can pull that
off , you don’t need any level of expertise,” said Ian. You can see why they’re the go-to option for any
business needing to deliver high volume and high quality. But unfortunately, if you’re salivating at the thought of serving up a perfect fi ve-course dinner to your family without lifting a finger, you could have a while to wait. Rational has no intention of moving into the domestic
oven market any time soon, but like other industries, technology from the most demanding and extreme environments does eventually trickle through to domestic appliances. Rational’s incredible tech remains a promise of things to come for anyone without the bank balance to fit out their kitchen like a Michelin star restaurant.
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