Blast chillers

The blast chiller is an appliance designed for professional kitchens but it is becoming more and more popular in our households. Hectic days, hard work and many hours spent away from home make food preparation optimization a necessity. The blast chiller lets us freeze the food rapidly which we can then put into the fridge or in the freezer with no risk of bacterial build up. Let’s have a look at how this machine works. Hot food put into the blast chiller will be brought to +3°C in 90 minutes or it will freeze at -18°C.

Why would you want to do this? You may not know that food that has just been cooked keeps its nutrients unaltered but when it starts to cool down its quality begins to decrease. This happens because in the first minutes of cooling the 80% of nutrients are lost and bacteria start proliferating.
So, now that you know this, you can easily figure out that the blast chiller is the only option to keep the quality of your food unaltered.

What is the difference between a blast chiller and a normal freezer?
Normal freezers are good for freezing but not for deep freezing. Deep freezing is a process that brings liquid water into a solid state. The faster it happens, the more correctly the food will be preserved. The freezer freezes food creating macro-crystals which damage food. The blast chiller instead create harmless micro-crystals. Blast chilled food can be easily recovered with traditional methods such as oven, barbecue, microwave.

What are the advantages of this appliance? You can even rapidly blast chill even beverages: one degree colder for every degree! Ice always available: 30 minutes to get lots of ice cubes. Food is preserved better, 80% more nutrients are preserved keeping color and taste unaltered. The blast chiller can help you reduce frozen food consumption. This way you can chill your own food for when your friends visit or to keep season food always available.
As all kitchen appliances you can have it free standing on a counter or you can install a built-in blast chiller in your kitchen cabinets.