Merrychef Launches New Oven with Faster Cooking

February 28th, 2006

Merrychef launched its latest innovation in Accelerated Cooking Technology® at London's Hotelympia 2006. The Merrychef 402S combines proven cooking technologies in a single compact unit to deliver high quality cooked foods at speeds 10 to 15 times faster than conventional ovens.

The Merrychef 402S is designed for world-wide use, and is available globally. The Merrychef 402S has been proven in heavy-duty daily use at select chain locations in the UK and in the USA. More than 70,000 Merrychef accelerated cooking ovens are in use globally.

A unique combination of convection heat, impingement pressure and electromagnetic energy allows the 402S to cook 10-15 times faster than conventional convection ovens with typical cook times of 15 seconds to one minute 30 seconds. And, a built-in catalytic converter eliminates the need for a ventilation hood so the oven can operate in virtually any environment.

 Speaking about the technology behind the 402S, Merrychef managing director Graham Veal said:

“We are delighted to officially launch this exciting new oven at Hotelympia. The Merrychef 402S can rapidly produce high quality menu items that include hot toasted sandwiches, salmon fillets, and full English Breakfasts. We are proud to add this oven to the growing range of Merrychef and Enodis products with Accelerated Cooking Technology.”

In discussing the 402S in use, he added:

“Even though electromagnetic energy is used, this technology can use standard metal baking sheets and the impinger plates are easily removable to operate as a standard convection oven.”

The 402S comes with the trademark Merrychef MenuKey® technology as standard. Precise instructions for combination and convection cooking of selected items may be programmed into the oven’s memory. The oven controls offer even greater flexibility with multi-stage programming. Each programme offers up to eight stages, each with its own time, fan speed and microwave power settings.

About Merrychef
Merrychef (www.merrychef.com) products are used throughout the World, across a wide variety of market segments and applications. Merrychef Ltd., part of Enodis plc, was founded in 1950 and has headquarters and ISO 9001 approved manufacturing facilities in Hampshire, UK.

About Enodis

Enodis plc (www.enodis.com) is a worldwide company focused on the design, manufacture, and supply of food equipment. Through its two operating groups, Global Food Service Equipment and Food Retail Equipment, it has 27 factories in 8 countries and a large portfolio of premium brands, including Delfield, Scotsman, Frymaster, Lincoln, Cleveland, Garland, US Range, ICE-O-Matic, Jackson, Merco Savory, Dean, Varimixer, and Merrychef in foodservice, and Kysor/Warren and Kysor Panel Systems in food retail equipment.