Six top tips on coping with festive pressure in the kitchen, from Prowrap
Food safety is critical all year round, but it’s never under more pressure than at Christmas when the kitchen is at its busiest. Prowrap, the specialist supplier of aluminium foil, baking parchment and cling film for the catering market, offers six of the best tips for protecting foods and making life easier during the festive rush.
Using film to cover prepped food is the ideal way to protect it and keep it fresh. If film tends to scrunch on the roll, invest in a heavy-duty dispenser such as the Speedwrap. This will feed film consistently and keep it ‘whole’, throughout the life of the roll. It will also speed up prep, since it’s quicker and more accurate than ‘hand rolling’.
Baking parchment is making a big comeback, partly because it eliminates the need to grease but also because it offers a very rapid turn-around for batches of baked goods, making it ideal for the Christmas rush.
Their speed makes commercial microwave ovens a great tool for both cooking and reheating at Christmas. Use cling film to cover the dish in the microwave, to retain moisture and flavour. However, make sure it’s not touching the food.
Retain the flavour and succulence of cooked meats by wrapping them in aluminium foil to store them. Try to wrap them as quickly as possible after cooking and chilling down, to keep them fresher for longer.
At busy times, staff will tend to treat things more carelessly. The kitchen’s standard foil and film may be fine for the rest of the year, but may not be up to the Christmas pressure. If they give problems, upgrade to premium versions, which are thicker and stronger.
Christmas puddings keep perfectly in baking parchment – which is also an ideal way to store those special Christmas cakes and biscuits.
Prowrap is the catering division of Wrapex Limited. The Prowrap range of cling film, aluminium foil, baking parchment and accessories is available via distributors and cash and carry outlets. For more information or to find your local stockist call Prowrap on 0117 965 7000 or visit www.prowrap.co.uk
Notes for editors
The Prowrap commercial range has been developed exclusively for the foodservice and bakery sectors and is produced in Wrapex’s manufacturing and warehousing facility in Bristol.
Prepare, Protect, Preserve: Prowrap leads the film & foil market in terms of innovation and environment-awareness. For example, its Speedwrap dispenser, launched as part of its ‘Prepare, Protect, Preserve’ initiative, offers the most compact, clean, fast and efficient way to handle foil and cling film in busy kitchens – with absolutely no scrunching! Meanwhile the Prowrap ‘green’ outer packaging solution minimises the amount of material used to pack its products, whilst still protecting them effectively.
The total UK ‘film & foil’ market is worth around £100million per year.