Pizza Oven Produces at Cornell’s Purcell Marketplace
| home to six meal plan dining facilities and variety of retail operations. While many of those location off pizza, to keep things interesting, each tries to put its own spin on that popular dish. Available styles on campus include deep dish, traditional Neapolitan, Sicilian and more. At the busy Robert Purcell Marketplace on the school’s North Campus, dining services offers hand-formed specialty pizza prepared in the Millennium 2000 Carousel Brick Oven from Remco Specialty Products, can cook fresh dough pizza from scratch in two minutes, which helps the eatery keep up with demand. According to Richard Anderson, general manager for Cornell dining, Robert Purcell Marketplace typically goes through 30 to 40 pies per meal. The oven was installed as part of major renovation in the facility a year and a half ago. and the food variety and quality have been a hit with the students. “We get comments from our students that say that they’ve stayed on the food plan for their four years at Cornell because of the food at Purcell, and the pizza is a big part of that,” he said. “It’s the perfect oven for the location.” |
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that use the oven include president of Remco, added that additional schools would be adding the oven to their operations in the near future. The Millennium 2000 ships on a castered stand for easy installation. It features an air-curtain design that keeps heat in the oven and out of the kitchen and dining area—the temperature drops to around room temperature at around 12 inches. No hood is required; a 6-inch flue to the outside or an approved ventilation duct is all that is needed. The deck speed is adjust adjusts from 30 seconds to three minutes per rotation and the deck can be paused with a pedal control for easy loading and unloading. Cited from : On-Campus Hospitality Page 30 September 2002 |
Getting out of the Kitchen
| For other open-fire cooking enthusiast, a multitude of new and updated cooking equipment exists for foodservice operators who enjoy their time enjoy spending their time in the great outdoors. Forget deep-frying or waiting 20 minutes for wings to bake Ft. Lauderdale- based Remco Specialty Products’ new Wing King Mini-Rotisserie cooks wings in five minutes without using oil. Just take the raw wings, preheat the machine fro about 5 minutes, put the wings in one of four baskets (which holds 80 to 100 wings), and set the timer for five minutes. “Operators are amazed,’ says Remy Moreth, who is in charge of marketing and design. “This is a completely new concept, and a healthy, fast way to cook wings.” |
The Wing King also cooks ribs, kabobs, sausage, steak fries, vegetables and frozen appetizers. It only operates when cooking, and has automatic safety shutdown in event of overheating. Cited from : Chef Magazine June 2002 |