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Professional Kitchen Appliances & Your Business
Benefits of Professional Kitchen Appliances
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Whether you’re a business looking to streamline your work process or an avid home chef who wants to know how to cook like a pro, professional kitchen appliances can up your culinary game like no other appliances can. Professional kitchen equipment isn’t just for restaurants: it’s for businesses like bakeries, hotels, and even medical facilities. These high-end products are also ideal for creating a pro kitchen in your own home, so no matter if you’re cooking for one or 100, it’s possible with the right tools.
In this guide, we’ve put together professional kitchen tips to help you know which professional kitchen appliances are the most popular, how to utilize them to benefit you most, and which brands to look out for. We’ll also highlight key considerations for each appliance type so that you can choose the highest quality appliances that match your needs. Keep reading to learn how to design a professional kitchen with appliances from Colder’s.
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Professional kitchen appliances can significantly benefit various businesses aside from restaurants and cooking establishments. Hotels, bakeries, grocery stores, fitness centers and even medical facilities can all benefit by having commercial kitchen appliances on-site. Enhancing both operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, high end appliances add convenience to day-to-day functioning and can help set you up for success.
Overall, professional kitchen appliances differ from standard ones because they’re able to handle larger capacities and cook at higher temperatures. In other words, they’re built to endure constant use in demanding environments.
Here are several types of businesses that can benefit from commercial grade kitchen appliances:
| Type of Business | Useful Professional Appliances | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Cafés | • Commercial Kitchen Appliances (pro styles ranges, luxury gas cooktops, ovens, grills, fryers) • Dishwashers and Cleaning Equipment | ||
• Commercial Kitchen Appliances
• High-End Dishwashers
• Commercial Ice Makers
• Commercial Refrigeration (beverage centers, wine coolers)
• High-End Dishwashers
• Commercial Baking Equipment (ovens, ranges)
• Refrigerated Display Cases
• High-End Dishwashers
•Commercial Refrigeration
• Commercial Refrigeration
• High-End Dishwashers
• Commercial Refrigeration
• Commercial Freezers
Benefits of Professional Kitchen Appliances
There are several ways that high end kitchen appliances like a professional range hood, steam convection oven, or professional built in refrigerator can benefit your business. Here are a few:
✅ Operational Efficiency
Commercial appliances are designed for heavy-duty use, improving overall efficiency and reducing downtime. Plus, streamlining processes leads to quicker service and higher productivity.
✅ Consistent Quality
Commercial appliances are designed to provide superior precision and control versus mass-produced appliances, ensuring consistent quality in food preparation and storage. Consistency enhances the reputation of your business and fosters customer trust.
✅ Cost Savings
Properly functioning commercial appliances help improve energy efficiency and reduced maintenance costs in the long run. Efficient appliances contribute to cost savings, which can be passed on to customers or reinvested into a business.
✅ Customer Satisfaction
Faster service and consistent quality contribute to improved customer satisfaction. Businesses that can meet customer demands promptly and consistently are likely to build a loyal customer base.
Popular Professional Appliance Brands
While the market for luxury appliances caters to a specific niche, the category is expanding more than ever, putting the pressure on familiar brands to release their own premium lines to join the rankings. Brands like GE, LG, Frigidaire, and Whirlpool all manufacture their own high end appliance brands (Café and Monogram from GE, Signature Kitchen Suite from LG, Frigidaire Professional from Frigidaire, and JennAir from Whirlpool), which are considerable alternatives for buyers looking to save on professional appliances.
On the other hand, brands like Gaggenau, SMEG, Sub-Zero, Thermador, and Wolf exclusively make high-end products. Manufacturers such as these consistently deliver the best engineering and materials with commercial-grade features and performances that even businesses can benefit from.
Whatever you choose for your business, you can also incorporate these commercial grade appliances for the home, creating a modern and highly functional kitchen.
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Professional Refrigeration
When comparing a professional refrigerator with a standard one, here are some things you should prioritize:
✔ High-quality stainless steel exterior and interior
✔ Heavy-duty compressors, condensers, and other components designed to withstand the demands of constant use
✔ Temperature monitoring systems that provide real-time data and alerts in case of temperature fluctuations
✔ More capacity
✔ Rapid cooling and freezing capabilities to quickly bring newly added items to the desired temperature, which is crucial for maintaining the freshness and quality of food products
✔ Featured Professional Refrigerator: LG Signature 30.8 Cu. Ft. Textured Steel French Door Refrigerator
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When you’re stocking up on produce for the week, you want it to stay fresh. The InstaView Door-in-Door helps you do this by offering visibility without opening the fridge and reducing cold air loss. Inside, a superior cooling system will keep your ingredients at the ideal temperature. Smart features can help you stay on top of fridge maintenance, and LG’s ThinQ app makes this easy.
★ Featured LG Signature URNTS3106N Review:
“Bought this product three years ago and it has been the best refrigerator we've ever owned. All my vegetables last a week longer; food doesn't go bad. It's beautiful inside and easy to clean. It's a statement piece in our kitchen. It just does everything that we want in a refrigerator.”
✔ We Also Like: Frigidaire Professional 33 in. 18.9 Cu. Ft. Stainless Steel Built In Counter Depth Column Refrigerator
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A column refrigerator allows you to place your refrigerator and column freezer side by side or customize your layout. You can even utilize multiple column refrigerators and freezers to suit your needs. On the inside, you’ll have room to store all of your ingredients from a sheet tray to a tall bottle. Keep premium proteins and poultry perfectly chilled along with your produce with the Frigidaire’s EvenTemp Cooling system and advanced crisper drawers inside nearly 19 cubic feet of storage capacity.
★ Featured Frigidaire Professional FPRU19F8WF Review:
“The exterior is great. The inside is even better. VERY bright with durable shelves.”
✔ For Sommeliers: LG Signature 28” Textured Steel Wine Cooler
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Whether you store it in the back or have it out for display, this high end wine cooler will keep up to 65 bottles of wine chilled to perfection with precise temperature control. Quality matters—and your reputation hinges on it—so this wine cooler is designed with that in mind. Optimal humidity control preserves both wine flavor and label quality. As a bonus, this wine cooler features a convertible drawer that can switch between refrigerator and freezing mode, so you can keep canned beverages or frozen ingredients chilled.
★ Featured LG Signature URETC1408N Review:
“It's designed so well and thought out…it can store wine, drinks, food...those wonderful meats and cheeses you enjoy with your wine. The champagne drawer is fantastic and is already being used. We are over the top happy with this.”
Professional Cooking Appliances
When comparing professional cooking appliances like a pro style range or convection steam oven with standard ones, here are some things you should prioritize:
✔ High-BTU burners to allow for faster heating and more powerful cooking capabilities for large quantities of food
✔ Precise control over heat settings
✔ Convection ovens
✔ Large cooking chambers to accommodate greater quantities of food in the oven
✔ Steam injection system in the oven, which is especially beneficial for baking bread
✔ Programmable controls that allow chefs to create and save custom cooking profiles, which is useful for consistent results and efficient kitchen operations
✔ Sous vide oven capabilities that work with steam to set the oven chamber to a specific temperature
✔ We Recommend: FORNO Alta Qualita 48” Stainless Steel Pro Style Dual Fuel Range
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This professional range from FORNO adds 18” to the standard 30” range size so that you have more room and more burners to cook higher volumes of food at once. You can do the same with two oven chambers, which include convection cooking to produce crispy vegetables and meat that is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. No matter what cuisine your restaurant cooks up, you are equipped to do it all with a wok ring, griddle, convection cooking, and air fry capabilities.
✔ We Also Love: Frigidaire Professional 30” Smudge-Proof Stainless Steel Double Electric Wall Oven
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Two ovens are better than one, especially when you’re baking or roasting in large quantities. With this Frigidaire Professional double wall oven, you have an extra large capacity of 10.6 cu. ft. Whatever is on the menu, you can cook it to perfection with air fry, slow cook, convection back, steam bake, convection roast, steam roast, and more. Especially if you’re baking bread, muffins, or other treats, steam bake will help your treats rise higher and turn out light and fluffy.
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Professional Dishwashers
When comparing a commercial grade dishwasher with a standard one, here are some things you should prioritize:
✔ Large capacity to handle a high volume of dishes in a single wash cycle
✔ Fast wash cycles
✔ Stainless steel construction (interior and exterior)
✔ Heavy-duty components like pumps, motors, and spray arms that can handle the rigorous demands of continuous operation
✔ High-pressure water jets to remove stubborn food residues and grease effectively
✔ Sanitization option to meet health and safety standards
✔ We Recommend: KitchenAid 24” PrintShield Stainless Steel Top Control Built In Dishwasher
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This three-rack dishwasher offers extra capacity whether you need a spot for mugs, silverware, or miscellaneous utensils from that day’s dinner prep. You can rest assured that the advanced clean water wash system will get your dishes clean and the fan-enabled ProDry system will get them sanitized and dry. Cleanup is part of the job, and this dishwasher helps make it easy.
★ Featured KitchenAid KDTM804KPS Review:
“Best dishwasher that we have ever owned! The dry feature is AMAZING, even plastic containers get dry.”
Whether you are a passionate home chef or looking for ways to improve your business, these professional kitchen ideas can pave the way for success in the kitchen. Professional kitchen appliances boast durability, capacity, and advanced technology. At Colder’s, you can find the best selection of professional kitchen appliances from trusted brands like LG Signature and Frigidaire Professional to benefit your Milwaukee business. Browse our entire selection online or in-store today!
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