To Vent or Be Ventless

To vent or be ventless, that was the question to be answered at Middleby UK Centre of Innovation and Excellence by the Houno Blodgett Hoodini combi oven. Brought to the UK market by Lincat, part of the Middleby Corporation, the first ventless Hoodini unit to arrive in the UK was sold by Target Catering Equipment to the Agroecology Farm Ed centre, based in the Cotswolds.

The recent official launch to introduce the “ventless” concept demonstrated how chefs can utilise this new technology, taking the pain and stress away from traditional cooklines, and developing menus and concepts optimised by equipment choice.

Rob Fairhurst, Middleby UK’s development chef, showed how easy cooking using the Hoodini combi oven was and with perfect mise en place preparation, how performance could be elevated. By having equipment programmed to specifically cook each individual item on the menu enables anyone to cook to perfection.

The Hoodini Combi is the first truly ventless combination oven with its Blodgett designed and fitted Hoodini recirculating hood with catalytic converter air cleaning exhaust technology. Delivering clean cool exhaust air from the oven at just 37°C, which is equal to healthy standard body temperature.

Now you can not only re-heat pre-cooked food with ventless equipment, but you can also cook from scratch, a breakthrough in the catering equipment sector. Which means fast, quality foodservice can be achieved without the need for expensive ducted kitchen ventilation systems, with high rise external ductwork being a thing of the past.

The Hoodini opens up many more sites for use by the food industry which had previously required ducting, making them unsuitable due to planning conditions and constraints. As if by magic the Hoodini ventless combi oven along with ventless Perfect Fry, TurboChef, Sota and Fire pizza ovens and double batch impingement ovens enable you to get over this hurdle.

If this all sounds double Dutch to you then you need to attend the next ventless demo to see for yourself. These demos can be attended at the Middleby UK Centre of Innovation and Excellence or at one of the Middleby UK dealers demo sites like Target Catering Equipment of Gloucester.

View upcoming events >> https://www.targetcatering.co.uk/live-cooking

“Kitchens are being changed with chefs learning new tricks, make sure you don’t get left behind and try something new and different you cannot fail to like it! We certainly did and so do our customers.” said David Pedrette MD and Technical Design Consultant at Target Catering Equipment.

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