It is a well-known fact that large restaurants, QSR chains and similar outlets produce huge amounts of food waste, which need to be disposed of. EnviroPure Systems Inc. manufactures, markets and sells self-contained, food waste elimination systems. They provide water-based submersed environment decomposition that turns food waste into water that can be safely disposed of into municipal waste water systems. They require no water to operate this and provide substrate based decomposition with up to a 1500:1 reduction in food waste, volume, and weight. The results are the total elimination of food waste without any odors, sludge build-up, and system clean outs. The manufacturer points out that the systems handle virtually any kind of food waste including vegetables, fruits, meat, fish and poultry, dairy products, bones, shells and pits with complete decomposition – usually occurring within 24 hours!
Air Cleaning and Grease FilteringA considerable part of a kitchen’s operation costs is allotted to filtering the air in the kitchen. That’s why efficient systems in this area are just as sought after as all the others in every respect. Energon Systems offers a special procedure for this. The company covers energy-saving LED lights with the colorless and odorless material “TitanProtect” and therefore produces a reactive compound with oxygen, which is also supposed to reduce bad odors as well as viruses, germs, and bacteria.Manitowoc Foodservice has recently introduced a new FilterQuick filtration into its range of Frymaster’s Oil Conserving Fryers. The system provides minimal oil handling and an extension of component life. A monitor helps to control food and oil quality. Oil life and equipment performance should reduce the consumption of oil/energy by 40/10%.
Software Designed Food3D printer prints pizza! These or similar headlines astound many a kitchen professional in 2014 because it is commonly understood that a printer “coughs up” paper, but no food. However, the confusion can be resolved easily. Simply spoken, this is a small apparatus for developing, designing and producing foodstuff digitally. Its recipes can be developed computerized, among other things, and the “prescribed” food products are produced (the so-called generative development process). Therefore its composition and form of appearance is not worked out carefully in a test kitchen but digitally, therefore generated by combinations of numbers, which encode the ingredients, forms, sensory qualities, and production requirements, among others.
The procedure is still in its early stage of development, but is being established gradually in different areas of application. According to trade journals, the Spanish company Natural Machines (naturalmachines.com) is working on a device (the label Foodini), which can produce pizza, pasta and burgers digitally and is supposed to come on the market by the middle of 2015 for EUR830. Barilla is said to be dealing with a device, which should be able to manufacture 15 to 20 noodles within two minutes digitally.