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Article: The Big Chill.(blast chillers are useful item for food cooling)
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- Restaurants & Institutions
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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FASTER, COLDER AND MORE HACCP-FRIENDLY, BLAST CHILLERS ARE BECOMING AN INDISPENSABLE PART OF THE KITCHEN EQUIPMENT LINEUP.
Michael Vlasich, executive chef at the PGA National Resort & Spa in Palm Beach Garden, Fla., had a tall order to fill: fresh fruit and yogurt smoothies for 1,500 banquet guests.
Ordinarily, prep work for so many smoothies would see 30 workers and 30 blenders going full-tilt throughout an eight-hour shift. But Vlasich finished in three hours, using two employees, a couple of large mixers--and a blast chiller.
"On the morning of the event, we pureed the fruit and yogurt, put the puree into 5-gallon buckets, and blast-chilled ...