Endorsed products

Panasonic’s latest professional microwave, the NE-1878 with inverter technology and full metal door, has been given ‘approved product’ status by the Craft Guild of Chefs, achieving 173 points from a total of 180, following testing as part of its Product Endorsement Scheme.

The NE-1878 is the world’s first commercial microwave to come with inverter technology and a full metal door.

All chefs that were involved in the testing agreed that the oven offered ‘huge advantages’ to their operations, saying, “We used this in one of our outlets that is customer facing, the perception of this being an oven and not a microwave is excellent, it fitted in alongside all other equipment and didn’t at all look like a microwave, this again could be a great selling point for customer-facing, open restaurants” and “We were really impressed at the even cooking ability of this product; we even tested delicate fish and it performed really well.”

Pan’Artisan’s range of pizza bases, aimed at the education sector, have achieved an above average rating under the Craft Guild of Chefs Product Endorsement Scheme.  The pizza bases were trialled and rated by a panel of senior education sector chefs and exceeded the pass mark that enables Pan’Artisan to utilize with confidence the Craft Guild of Chefs ‘Approved Product’ logo.

The Company has developed two pizza bases especially for the education sector and with children’s nutritional needs in mind.  They are provided frozen, are low in fat and have a reduced salt content of 0.75% to ensure they comply with nutrient-based Government standards.  As with all of Pan’Artisan’s pizza bases, they are hand finished and made with the best quality ingredients; they contain no GM products or artificial flavours or preservatives.  This pizza range is available in conventional rounds from 12” to 16” and easy to portion 15” x 11” rectangles.

The ‘Deep Pan White’ and ‘Deep Pan Brown with 25% Wholemeal’ bases are extremely popular with students as well as caterers offering a children’s menu; by using fresh and healthy topping ingredients its now easier than ever to complete a nutritionally balanced food offer. 

For more information on the Pan’Artisan range of products call 01730 811490 or visit www.panartisan.com.

Pan’Artisan’s range of dough balls have been ‘highly accredited’ under the Craft Guild of Chefs Product Endorsement Scheme, achieving a grade ’A’ rating and use of the ‘Approved Product’ logo.

The Company put forward a selection of its dough balls for the product endorsement programme  – all of which received excellent feedback from the three industry chefs who unanimously agreed that the dough balls were easy to use, of superior quality and that they would be happy to continue using them.

Popular inclusions in the dough ball range are; pizza dough balls which come in a variety of sizes and are made using an original Neapolitan recipe, allowing greater elasticity of the dough, for an exceptional, final flavour, along with their Sourdough dough ball, a speciality that is much in demand at present, yet can be time consuming and require skill to produce.  Pan’Artisan’s sourdough dough ball offers busy caterers a tangy, distinctive flavour and a popular menu choice.

Stuart Jackson, Director of Sales said: “We are absolutely delighted with this result and to have received this endorsement.  We think that our range of dough balls provide a consistent, premium quality product for busy operators, eliminating the need for specialist skills or equipment and this has now been verified.  To receive comments such as, ‘I would struggle to notice the difference in the final product up against freshly made’ and ‘Sourdough and pizza are far better than any other product used’ is high praise indeed and makes us very proud.”

Its pizza bases also made the grade and have been approved by the Craft Guild.

For more information on the Pan’Artisan range of products call 01730 811490 or visit www.panartisan.com.

The Craft Guild of Chefs has awarded Pan’Artisan’s Focaccia Romana its highly esteemed ‘Approved Product’ status.

Following rigorous tests by a panel of chef judges handpicked by the Guild, each product was declared worthy of the accolade, which is designed to promote confidence in the chefs and consumers using them.

Judge comments included: “The (Focaccia Romana) tasted as good as it looked, I love the rustic homemade appearance”; “I found the product to be very versatile - using it as a pizza or topped flatbread base was the obvious use but it also worked well cut as breadsticks or as a sandwich or warm wrap.”

“The uniqueness of the Focaccia Romana is its practicality and diversity and the homemade appearance gives it a good point of difference.”