Catering staff often work under great pressure: They need to prepare the food quickly, deliver it on time while keeping the cold chain intact, heat it up again to precise temperatures and, of course, ensure it tastes delicious. CoolCooking, founded by Marcus Mues, Jürgen Schröder and Tim Jürgens, is still a young company. Mues is a successful caterer and knows the challenges that come up with kitchens and the logistics process. Schröder and Jürgens are engineers. Their box ensures that the meals served on each plate are exactly the same quality as when they left the kitchen.
From pot to plate – in seven steps
1. COOKING
A chef prepares the food in a commercial kitchen.
2. COOLING
The prepared meal is placed into trays, cooled down very quickly to between +3 and 0 degrees Celcius and stored overnight.
3. DELIVERY
A refrigerated truck delivers the prepared food at the desired time. The high packing density and optimized route planning can reduce the route distance by up to 35 percent.
4. THE BOX
The CoolCooking box is located at the customer’s premises (daycare center, school, small company canteen or care home).
Click or hover over the plus symbols to discover the features of the CoolCooking box.
5. COOLING AGAIN
The box is programmed in advance and knows when the meal should be ready to serve.The box continues cooling the meals
until a certain point in time.
6. REGENERATION
Prior to the set meal time, the box heats up to 130 degrees Celcius. A core temperature probe checks when the food has reached 72 degrees Celcius in the center. The box then automatically switches to a mode that keeps the meals warm, ensuring the food is not overheated and the vitamins are retained.
7. TUCK IN
Fresh, delicious food, precisely prepared for company canteens, daycare centers, facilities for senior citizens or events.
For the Sauerland-based company, their collaboration with ebm-papst is all about good, sometimes unconventional, ideas, speed and reliability. For David May, a member of the field sales team at ebm-papst, it’s the perfect task to get stuck into. He and the three CoolCooking founders are on the same wavelength and find solutions to get the best out of the box. The focus is on ensuring a long service life. The compact design of the four centrifugal fans and two induced draft fans plays a crucial role because the technology is installed exclusively in the door of the mobile box.
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