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Precision Hot-Holding Technology

Thermodyne acts as an extra member of staff, allowing your most talented staff to use their time to create the perfect culinary experience with the minimum amount of stress.

Thermodyne is the ultimate Precision Hot-Holding, Slow-Cooking and Rethermalization unit for your kitchen. Thermodyne’s patented Fluid Shelf® technology gently transfers heat through each shelf by re-circulating hot fluid that provides even distribution of heat to all of your products, regardless of where they are placed in the cabinet.

Thermodyne acts as an extra member of staff, allowing your most talented staff to use their time to create the perfect culinary experience with the minimum amount of stress.

In today’s changing marketplace, Thermodyne will make a difference to you kitchen. Each shelf in a Thermodyne unit is heated and temperature controlled, making every cubic centimetre of space in the unit available for use.

With the need for airflow eliminated, door openings won’t cause a fluctuation in food temperature or energy consumption. In fact, many of our units are actually sold without doors.

In many cases Thermodyne’s full size hot-hold units can handle the capacity of two competitive models; saving you valuable space in the kitchen. Or choose from Thermodyne’s half-size and counter top models to replace a competitive full-size floor model.

Whether your operational needs call for a small countertop quick serve unit or our largest doublewide hot food holding cabinet unit, a Fluid Shelf® system from Thermodyne is the answer.

Thermodyne does not use re-circulated air, so you can hold crisp or moist products in the same cabinet at the same time. Foods can be held significantly longer while retaining high quality, colour and texture, as if suspended in time. The Fluid Shelf® system keeps the heat source in constant motion, ensuring that the transfer of heat directly to your foods via conduction is the most energy and time efficient process over traditional convection models. At the same temperature, heat is transferred 30 times faster through through conduction as opposed to convection.

The result of this efficient heat transfer is that Thermodyne countertop units can be purchased with or without doors, and are equipped with our patented built-in pan covers delivering quick serving access without compromising other products’ temperatures. Thermodyne units achieve more consistent and higher quality results making Thermodyne the most efficient hot food holding cabinet around.

How Thermodyne Works

Inside the Thermodyne cabinet, the heat transfer fluid is heated to your desired temperature in a heater tank sited in the top of the unit. The heated fluid travels through the inside of the shelves in the cabinet, going back to the tank to recover temperature and it is continually circulated throughout providing exact temperature distribution to your food.

Your food is heated by touching the heated shelf, and this “conduction method” transfers heat molecule by molecule of your food. This patented method of low temperature heat transfer not only maintains the exact temperature but also preserves your foods natural moisture and flavour without overcooking or drying out.

Thermodyne precision temperature hot-holding and cooking units are produced and supplied to the UK by the US company Thermodyne Foodservice Products, Inc., which was founded in 1987. It developed a revolutionary method of heat transfer in the late 1970’s where R&D began to seek out a better method of transferring heat to food products and maintaining food quality for extended periods of time, after it was cooked. The focus, and outcome, of the Thermodyne technology was two fold:

Transferring heat at an exact temperature without exceeding it at any time using conduction cooking.
Developing an efficient conduction cooking method suitable to the foodservice industry to decrease the usage of damaging high temperatures.

The Benefits of Thermodyne to Your Kitchen

Speed of Service

No matter what the time of day, no matter how service levels fluctuate, Thermodyne allows you to have quality food, ready to go at any time.

Higher Yield / Less Waste

Thermodyne’s gentle conduction heating preserves nutrients and moisture, reducing shrinkage. Tests have shown that compared to convection cooking, you can save 10-15% of the yield of your food.

High Quality Food

Thermodyne allows you to hot-hold your food for extended periods of time with no deterioration of quality. The food that you produce at the end of service is as good as the first plate that you deliver.

Ease of Use

The majority of the Thermodyne units use a conventional 3-pin, 13amp plug, so are truly “plug and play”. This in itself makes it a highly energy efficient unit, with energy costs as little as £1 per day.

Food Safety

The Thermodyne units conduction heating process ensures that there are no dramatic changes in temperature across your held food, with or without doors. In addition, as there is no re-circulating hot air flavour crossover is eliminated.

Future Proof

With the hospitality and restaurant world changing at a fast pace, the flexibility and adaptability of Thermodyne ensures that you will always deliver quality food products, on-time. Thermodyne provides precision hot-holding and cooking for every occasion.