LACA 2011: Rational shows how to cook healthy meals on stand K63

LACA 2011 Rational shows how to cook healthy meals on stand K63

Rational’s SelfCooking Center is the ideal cooking appliance to keep up with the drive towards healthy eating in schools and colleges.  It is designed to cook a variety of menu items, with the minimum of effort, and in an ideal ‘climate’ to retain vital vitamins and nutrients as well full flavour, colour and texture.

At the touch of a button chefs can select how they want to cook the dishes, for example the degree of browning. The SelfCooking Center does the rest, calculating exactly how long the food needs to be cooked, the right balance of dry heat and humidity and the temperature.

Of interest to schools and colleges is how the SelfCooking Center can cook ‘healthier’ popular foods, even chips! French fries from the Rational can contain 80% less fat and 36% fewer calories than their deep-fried counterparts.  To make it possible for chefs to prepare pre-fried chips without the need for oil, Rational has designed the CombiFry – a wire basket with a wavy base that ensures the chips lie randomly and cook without sticking.

The CombiFry makes cooking chips fast too: it holds up to 1kg so caterers can cook 200 portions of chips in just 15 minutes. The CombiFry is also suitable for all sorts of pre-fried products including onion rings and spring rolls.

What’s more the Rational SelfCooking Center cleans and descales itself at the end of the day – but only when it needs it.  All new Rationals are fitted with CareControl which constantly monitors the cooking processes and alerts staff when cleaning is necessary. At that point all staff have to do is pop in a couple of special cleaning tabs, switch on the cleaning cycle and the SelfCooking Center does the rest.

For information and brochures, or to arrange to come to a free SelfCooking Center® ‘TeamCooking Live’ seminar, contact your dealer, freephone Rational UK on 0800 389 2944 or call +44 800 389 2944.  For product information and contact details see www.rational-UK.com.  For information about Club Rational, including recipes and combi cooking tips, visit www.club-rational.com/gb.