Winston Foodservice Blog
Why Winston Invests in School Nutrition Equipment Grants
Written by Corey Ainsworth, Winston Regional Sales Manager. If you’re a school nutrition director, you know the drill: feed hundreds of students in a ...
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Ultimate Guide to Warming Drawers for Foodservice Success
Commercial warming drawers are a highly versatile and essential piece of equipment in any professional kitchen or foodservice operation. It is designed to maintain food ...
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Ticket Time Challenge
Foodservice operations are facing stiff headwinds. Rising food costs, labor shortages, wage growth, and constant turnover put pressure on profits. We experimented to prove that ...
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Lowering Food Costs and Waste Starts with Smarter Holding: Why CVap® Changes the Game
By Chad Lunsford I work with all kinds of customers, from big school districts and multi-unit chains to fast casual restaurants, catering companies, event centers, ...
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The Truth is in the ROI Numbers – CVap Pays for Itself
Capital expenditures are a factor in kitchen math and a necessary part of doing business in commercial kitchens, franchises, and restaurants. But how often does ...
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Taking Care of Your CVap® or Collectramatic®: Why Stainless Steel Needs Your Love
Your CVap and Collectramatic are built tough. They’re engineered to perform day in and day out in busy kitchens. And one of the reasons they ...
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Winston Collectramatic Pressure Fryer: Benefits for Fried Chicken
Pressure frying elevates the art of chicken preparation. Combining high heat, pressure, and a seasoned coating results in chicken that is incredibly crispy on the ...
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Cutting Waste with CVap Ovens: Sustainability in the Restaurant Industry
Let’s face it: running a restaurant is already like juggling flaming knives. Now, add saving the planet to the mix. No big deal, right? Customers ...
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CVap Recipe: Autumn is for Acorn Squash
Acorn squash are underappreciated autumn veggies. They’re often overlooked for flashier squash cousins like butternut or pumpkin. But let’s set the record straight; these ...
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CVap® is Your Sustainable Restaurant Equipment Solution
In recent years, the global focus on climate change and sustainability has prompted industries to explore ways to reduce their carbon footprint. The restaurant industry ...
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The Vital Importance of Supporting Child Nutrition in Schools
Child nutrition is an issue that goes beyond our country’s school lunchrooms. Whether you have children or you don’t, child nutrition affects you. It’s a ...
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Healthy Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Meatballs in CVap
Pasta with sauce and meatballs is one of the quintessential dishes on American tables. The simple but delicious quasi-Italian dish often tempts even the pickiest ...
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The Benefits of Batch Cooking in CVap®
What is Batch Cooking? Batch cooking, also known as cooking to hold, involves preparing large quantities of food and then holding it hot at a ...
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Confit Turkey in CVap
In this blog, our CEO, Shaun Tanner, cooks a confit turkey, resulting in the most amazingly moist turkey we have ever had. I’ve been thankful ...
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Elevating School Nutrition: How CVap® Helps
Kids need good nutrition to function well. The importance of that fact cannot be overstated. CVap technology can play a crucial role in feeding kids. ...
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Collectramatic Recipe: Korean Fried Chicken
Korean fried chicken refers to a variety of fried chicken dishes created in South Korea, including the basic huraideu-chicken and spicy yangnyeom chicken. This fried ...
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Stage in CVap and Fry Chicken in Collectramatic
CVap® ovens are well known for their ability to stage. In case you’re not familiar, staging involves cooking foods to a temperature that’s at (or ...
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40 Clove Garlic Chicken Recipe
A lot of folks think if a recipe is French, it must be complicated. But that’s not the case here. The traditional recipe (which the ...
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Keep Food Safe, Hot, and Fresh with CVap a Food Truck Hot Box
Trends in foodservice come and go, but food trucks have proven they’re here to stay. A food truck hot box—also known as a holding cabinet ...
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Top 5 Warming Cabinet Dos and Don’ts in a Commercial Kitchen
Warming cabinets (a.k.a. holding cabinets, hot boxes, etc.) are the secret weapon in many commercial kitchens. They make it possible to keep prepared food at ...
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New vs Used Food Equipment: Should You Buy New or Used Commercial Kitchen Equipment?
It’s tempting to consider buying used commercial kitchen equipment instead of new. But is it a sound investment? It’s essential to look beyond the purchase ...
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Staged New Zealand Lamb Chops Recipe
Lamb is an under-appreciated protein. Globally, it ranks a distant fourth in meat popularity (behind pork, chicken, and beef). But it’s a lovely, mellow-flavored meat ...
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CVap Oven Recipe: Al Pastor
Al pastor (from Spanish, “shepherd style“) is a traditional preparation of spit-grilled slices of pork. The dish originates in the Central Mexican region of Puebla ...
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CVap: The Best Equipment for Summer Feeding Programs
Summer is upon us, and for the majority of our nation’s children, that means a break from the grind of school life and a couple ...
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Chocolate Pots de Creme in CVap Oven
Ah, chocolate. It’s one of life’s great pleasures. The variety of ways it can be prepared is impressive. We wanted to show off our CVap ...
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The Best Methods for Prepping Plant-based Meats
Ah, prepping plant-based meats. Despite murmurs to the contrary, plant-based meats are expected to continue gaining popularity. Experts say that by 2027 the plant-based meat ...
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Dulce de Leche in CVap®
Dulce de leche, or caramelized milk, is a popular Latin American confection. When prepared old-school, sugar, and milk are slowly heated for several hours. The ...
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