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At Cadco we have a corporate commitment to customer support. We firmly believe that our success depends upon your success as our customer. Cadco values your contact, and in that spirit, we have expanded our web site to include an online Chef support resource center, the Chef’s Table.
Certified Executive Chef Loren Lippitt is available, along with our entire Cadco staff, to answer your food and equipment related questions on line. Chef Lippitt has a strong foundation of food service experiences to draw from, including: resorts, healthcare, hotels, private clubs, retail, bakery, and fine dining. He has been successful in small operations such as his family’s restaurant, all the way up to operations that have served 6,000 people three meals a day. Loren has traveled the world helping food service operators, from large multi-national chains to local Mom and Pop diners, find ways to produce better food at a lower cost with less effort.
Now, we at Cadco encourage you to explore our expanded web site and resource center to find solutions that will make your life easier and your business more successful.
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Welcome to the Cadco Chef’s Table!
I am Certified Executive Chef Loren Lippitt.
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Many of the fine dining, hotel, and resort operations I have been associated with, opened our “Chefs Table” to “VIP” guests. During these dinners our conversation has ranged from recipes and food service systems to food history and future trends. I hope to make the “Chefs Table” an extension of that concept. At these dinners, everyone added to the experience and the conversation became meandering, as well as informative. I have subjects I would like to talk with you about, but...
the focus of the “Chefs Table” will be you, our guests!
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If you need recipes, I’ll do my best to provide them. I have told cooks for years that “In my operations we share recipes”. Because we view our profession as a journey rather than a destination, we are always growing and improving, so recipe sharing is no threat to us at all.
Many times we are too close to our problems to visualize a realistic solution. Quite often we are so close to our operations and so busy that we may not even realize that a problem or a better way exists.
I don’t profess to have all the answers to every problem that might ever come up. I do have a broad range of work experiences to draw from, and a genuine desire to help you find solutions that will help you produce better food, at a lower cost, with less effort.
So please……Pull up a chair and join me, along with the Cadco staff, for some good food, good fellowship, and friendly conversation at the “Chefs Table”.
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Chef Loren’s
Fall/Winter 2007 Column
* LineChefTM Convection Ovens *
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Here are some great tips for baking “Picture Perfect Cookies” in our ovens:
(Click on the blue button to download PDF version.)
Picture Perfect Cookies.
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PDF of “Picture Perfect Cookies” Tips (61 kb) |
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Cookies bake from the outside in... so to make picture perfect cookies, we have to consider two variables:
1) The temperature of the dough. 2) The fat content of the dough.
Room temperature dough will spread out more than frozen or cold dough.
These two factors come into play mostly when we make cookies from "scratch", (but they apply to all cookies.) We may use a higher ratio of fat to flour which will make the cookie spread out more during baking, or...we might mix the dough, portion/scoop them on the pan, and bake them. Without any refrigeration, the cookies spread out more. The colder the dough, the less the cookie will spread / flatten out during baking.
These are factors that we should take into consideration before we begin baking, in any oven, or we may not be happy with our results... nobody wants an 18" x 26" size cookie!!
Dough baked from frozen produces a thicker, better-looking cookie than ones that are baked from refrigerated, or room temperature, which will spread out and therefore, have less height.
We suggest you bake your cookies (1.5 oz. approximate weight) in a preheated oven at about 300ºF for about 12-18 minutes, depending on what you think is the perfect cookie. Lower the temperature for larger cookies
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