A Home Cook’s Guide To Restaurant Equipment - Buy Used Restaurant Equipment And Save!
Forget about top of the line equipment for home cooks…get bottom of the line restaurant equipment!
Serious home cooks will often invest quite a lot of money in top quality appliances, pots and pans, ranges, ovens and even indoor grills, and the best of products for the home cook can be quite good, and generally look great.
An alternative approach, which will generally save you money, and will almost always result in better quality equipment truly meant to last a lifetime–especially for home cooks–is new or used professional restaurant equipment.
While restaurant equipment is rarely built for looks, it is designed to handle the heavy demands of round-the-clock cooking in volume, and with occasional home kitchen use, they will last forever; and because restaurant kitchens need to pump out a lot of food, restaurant equipment is designed for power and volume. While you might not really need it in a home kitchen, you’ll love being able to boil a big pot of water in a minute or two, and love making great January steak-house quality steaks on an indoor grill!
Pots and pans
Rarely do you see shiny and bright stainless pans like the best of the home models in a restaurant kitchen. Instead, pro kitchens sport dull and plain looking heavy gauge aluminum, that is built to last for ever, costs a fraction of the price, and offers very good even heat.
Ranges and ovens
Instead of a top of the line home range, get a bottom of the line professional restaurant range. You’ll pay about the same amount, but the functionality and power of the professional model will greatly better even the best of home models. Get a great 6 burner gas range with lots of extra room, incredible speed and power, and rock-steady-low all day simmers.
Indoor grills
Why get a pathetic electric indoor grill when for a few hundred dollars you can get a bottom of the range professional indoor charbroiler! Enjoy steak-house quality steaks year round on a grill every bit as good as the best of outdoor BBQ’s. Kiss that Forman grill goodbye!
Used restaurant equipment
Although you’ll find that the best of home cooking equipment and professional caliber stuff doesn’t differ that much in cost, there is always an incredible range of very affordable used restaurant equipment up for grabs. Restaurants go out of business all the time, and that restaurant equipment that may have seen a year or two of use was truly meant to last a lifetime. Get incredible savings on nearly new restaurant equipment.
Buy on the web
You can often find new and used restaurant equipment in bigger cities, often in industrial park zones, but you can now also order new and used restaurant equipment over the internet just as easily.
John Lee is the chef owner of The Salsa Kitchen and The Jerk Island Caribbean restaurant in Chiang Mai Thailand.
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