Ways to Maximize Efficiency in Your Commercial Kitchen With a Chamber Vacuum Sealer
“While chamber vacuum sealers are a wonderful fit for many commercial settings, today we’re going to look into how they benefit commercial kitchens, specifically.”
An overhead cost to reduce overhead costs, a commercial chamber vacuum sealer is capable of improving your kitchen’s efficiency and production. For an appliance like this to help sustain a commercial environment, it’s output must be worthwhile, it must be sustainable, and it must reduce expenses long-term. JVR Industries represents some of the most reliable commercial chamber vacuum sealers with a qualified staff readily available to help with any necessary repairs, allowing your commercial sealer to last you a lifetime.
Why a Chamber Vacuum Sealer?
Running a commercial kitchen is no joke, as any respected chef or food entrepreneur can attest. Regardless of staff skill level, the equipment used is a make-or-break for the kitchen’s success. Ensuring you have the proper tools to save time, energy, and resources can help you achieve your own breakthrough!
Prepare, Produce, and Preserve Food Efficiently in Your Commercial Kitchen
Commercial kitchens are built for high-volume, business-oriented use, focusing on production efficiency and safety. While chamber vacuum sealers are a wonderful fit for many commercial settings, today we’re going to look into how they benefit commercial kitchens, specifically.
Chamber vacuum sealers have a cavity where you place the bag inside, and they pull the air out of the entire chamber. Single or dual chamber vacuum sealers alike improve the operating capacity of the commercial kitchen in three main ways: preparation, production, and preservation.
PREPARE
Faster Marination
Better flavor in less time with less marinade
Marinating meat and vegetables, among other foods, is necessary for that enticing flavor we all search for in a meal. A quality marinade takes anywhere from 2-12 hours to appropriately saturate the food. In the food business, there is not always time for such a task. Additionally, the marination process can be wasteful, with so much marinade not even making contact with the food properly.
With vacuum sealing, the suction of air out of the bag simultaneously expands the food within. With the fibers separated slightly more than normal, the marinade can seep into the food quickly and thoroughly. This decreases marination time to around 5-60 minutes!
Ability to perfectly pre-portion out food
With vacuum sealing, you can portion out exactly how much you want of each ingredient in every serving: perfectly proportioned, ready to cook meals without the mess. Whether this is a small, individual meal, or a huge batch of meat, soup, veggies, etc., a secure and efficient way to prep food is a must in any kitchen. From ingredient variety and marination time to portion size, everything is under your control with a chamber vacuum sealer.
Easy, efficient bulk storage before cooking
Compared to other storage methods, a chamber vacuum sealer saves space, increases food safety, and speeds up food preparation time. Especially comparing to small external vacuum sealers such as Foodsaver style brands, commercial-style chamber vacuum sealers offer a whole new level of security in the kitchen.
PRODUCE
Sous Vide Cooking
Pre-portioned, pre-marinated meals ready to cook
Sous vide cooking is a moment of peace in the constant chaos working in a kitchen brings. If prepping for sous vide cooking is easy, actually cooking sous vide is a cool summer breeze.
Sous vide is the method of cooking vacuum sealed food in hot water, keeping the temperature exact to produce perfectly done food. While the cook time itself is longer, the room for error is considerably reduced. Cooking sous vide removes the possibility of dry outer edges and undercooked middles, producing the perfect cut of any meal. Capable of preparing the vacuum sealed food exactly how it needs to be cooked beforehand, you can feel confident in cheffing up something perfect, every time.
Requires less space to prepare, as well as less mess (and cleanup)
Enough cooking space in a regular kitchen feels impossible to find, let alone a commercial kitchen. Keeping track of supplies while constantly making a mess (and trying to clean that mess up) is an exhausting, inevitable process in the food business. With the sous vide method, you eliminate the need for extensive counterspace and mess.
Cooking in water means no dirty, crusted, oily pots and pans to clean over and over again. And with how commercial kitchens must adhere to very strict safety and hygiene standards, cooking sous vide can lower the stress of your staff’s workload.
Opens up Employees for More Pressing Tasks
The ease of sous vide cooking opens up the chefs of the kitchen to more pressing tasks. Without having to watch the pan and worry about burning food, regular stirring, or a fire starting, the chef can focus on prepping, cleaning, organizing, communicating with coworkers, and so on. In the commercial kitchen, time is money, and everyone is trying to budget. Save your employees’ focus with equipment that can save you money.
PRESERVE
Preserved Freshness Equals Reduced Waste
Reduced Waste = Reduced Costs
A chamber vacuum sealer is a remarkable food saver. Requiring smaller quantities of ingredients such as seasonings and marinades, you can noticeably reduce food waste, both in prep and in what’s saved for later.
Vacuum-sealed foods can last much longer than traditional storage methods, such as frozen beef lasting 10 years. Even after 10 years of proper storage, it is still safe to consume, with only the texture changing. With the substantial food output in a commercial kitchen, careful use of ingredients and equipment can drastically reduce waste-related expenses.
Freezing: Opens Opportunity for Bulk Buying
Another major benefit of a vacuum sealer is the ability to use it in combination with freezing. Compared to regular price, purchasing food in bulk is the best (and often only) alternative for commercial kitchens. Of course, this comes with troublesome safety issues to handle. Food safety, especially regarding meat, brings a whole world of challenges.
A chamber vacuum sealer in combination with a proper freezer can preserve quality and freshness for years: same great flavor, no nasty dryness, and safe to consume. Additionally, Chamber vacuum sealers use smooth, inexpensive bags that can cost up to 70-75% less than the textured bags required by suction sealers. Appropriate equipment, simple to install and built to last, can help you store in a way that prevents unnecessary waste and costs.
Single Vs. Dual Chamber Vacuum Sealers
Chamber Vacuum Sealer: Must-Have For the Food Entrepreneur
Vacuum sealers run on one of two types of pumps: rotary vane oil pumps or dry piston pumps. Oil pumps last longer, are open to repair, and best of all: function quietly. Dry piston pumps lack all of these features. These pumps best quality is their inexpensive price, as vacuum sealers can range in price from as low as $30 to several thousand dollars. However, what you don’t pay upfront costs you in the long run, as the dry piston feature is easily suceptible to damage without the option for repair.
If you would like to learn more about the differences between rotary oil vane and dry piston vacuum pumps, read more here.
Single-Chamber Vacuum Sealer
Whether single or dual chamber, commercial-style chamber vacuum sealers feature 2 seal bars for maximum output. The extra seal bar allows you to double your production rate. And, if a dual chamber vacuum sealer is used, this double seal bar essentially quadruples your seal rate.
Commercial grade chamber vacuum sealers with one chamber permit a low to medium level of packaging per day. Offering ample space within the chamber, this vacuum sealer style has space to handle full, large bags with no issue. The single chamber is especially effective for several large cuts of meat in one day or other similar projects.
For example, the JVR Vac410 is a single-chamber vacuum sealer featuring a 100% stainless steel body, toolless seal bar removal, and simple digital controls. The extra wide 10 mm seal wire secures strong, dependable seals during quick cycle times. With a 24.7″ x 24.7″ x 6.3″ chamber, space is far from a problem to solve. For more information, check out our video on the Vac410 here.
Additionally, a single chamber vac sealer can be just as, if not more, efficient than a dual chamber. Speed is heavily dependent on pump flow rate. The more efficient the pump, the faster the machine can produce. If a company is planning for a slow growth projection model, one single chamber vacuum sealer followed by another one a few years down the road could be the most optimal plan.
Something to note, though, is that two single chamber vacuum sealers provide a better safety net than one dual chamber. If a part fails in one single chamber, production does not stop as it would if you only had one dual chamber. Which style is best depends fully on your individual needs.
Dual-Chamber Vacuum Sealer
A dual chamber vacuum sealer is designed to provide a new level of efficiency. With two chambers, no time is wasted. While one chamber undergoes its sealing cycle, the other is available for more packaging. In a commercial kitchen, this efficiency is a game changer.
Dual chamber vacuum sealers are a greater initial investment than most single chambers. However, if the efficiency and design of two chambers in one unit suits your businesses needs, it can be an incredibly valid investment that pays itself back over time.
The Vac610 is a prime example of a dual chamber vacuum sealer: two chambers, two seal bars in each. This unit showcases two 26.3″ x 21.5″ x 7.5″ chambers, 24″ seal bars, and fast cycle times. Just like the Vac410, it has a beautiful stainless steel construction and simple digital controls to streamline your vacuum sealing process.
The market for dual chamber vacuum sealers is competitive, and we want your choice to feel easy with JVR’s exceptional lineup of vacuum sealing equipment. Learn more about the Vac610 on our YouTube channel, here.
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Additional Information
In addition to chamber vacuum sealers, JVR Industries also specializes in various other types of commercial packaging and processing equipment. From Rollstock machines to Diptanks, Brine Injectors, Tumblers, and much more, we’ve got what you need. To learn more about these other machines, check out their dedicated page on our website.
JVR Industries is an established, trusted company, serving customers for over 50 years. To learn more about our origins and history, hear about it directly from our team on our YouTube channel here!
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