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Article: Freeze frame: blast chillers let operators store food safely, quickly and economically.
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- Restaurants & Institutions
- Article date:
- June 15, 2005
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Known for their food-safety role in preserving prepared meals, blast chillers increasingly are recognized as cost-saving kitchen tools.
Using convected air to quickly lower food temperatures below what is considered the danger zone--41F to 140F, where bacteria are most likely to develop--blast chillers have become key fixtures in high-volume foodservice. In university settings, for example, the units are valuable not only for meeting safe food standards but also for expanding menus.
For Middlebury College the impetus for buying a roll-in, 20-pan blast chiller was to meet state food-safety regulations. Over time, though, the chiller's versatility has ...