Why Your Commercial Kitchen Needs a Pitco Pasta Cooker

Pasta is an easy add to any style of menu with a great profit margin. From the classic Italian variations, Greek, American, Asian and more, pasta is easily relatable with any restaurant offering. With Pitco’s Solstice Supreme Pasta Cookers, pasta comes out perfect every time and features accessories to optimize any execution. Made of marine-grade stainless steel, the cookers can produce large quantities in advance. Up to 500 individual 10-ounce servings can then be warmed, to be used as ordered.

Expand a Pizza Menu with Pasta

In addition to chicken wings and appetizers, pasta is great add to any pizza operation. Utilizing the same ingredients you already use adding pasta is a no brainer. The best part of a Pitco Pasta Cooker is that you don’t need to rely on stovetops with heavy stock pots to make the pasta you’ll need saving you on labor and creating a safer kitchen environment. The water flow regulators also ensure your Pasta Cooker is ready to go when demand calls.

Pasta Cookers for K-12 Schools, Colleges, and Universities

Pasta is an ultimate comfort food whether it’s covered in marinara with meatballs, simple butter noodles, or the ever popular mac and cheese, pasta is always a great crowd pleaser. Pitco makes it easy to prepare pasta for large crowds that is both safe for kitchen staff as well as efficient for operations. The basket options allow you to customize operations with bulk baskets allowing for mass production or you can split production for different kinds of pastas for multiple menu items at once. With the added Rinse Station you can optimize efficiency and rinse your product in an attached tank to the Pasta Cooker. Keep the travel of food prep to a minimum with this great option and upgrade to single or dual basket lifts for extra ease of use.

Choosing the Right Pasta Baskets for Your Kitchen

There are several baskets available for use with the Pitco pasta cookers. Different sizes can be purchased to meet the needs of any commercial kitchen. Automated basket lifts make it easier to handle the operation of the baskets.

Baskets available for the Pitco Solstice Supreme Pasta Cookers include:

Individual Portion Cups and Rack: These 4″x4″ cups are for single portions that cook at the same time. These are great for pasta heavy menus as they allow you to provide mass production a la carte. The set includes nine individual cups and rack.

Bulk Baskets: These baskets can handle up to 5 pounds of dry pasta in small bulk loads and are also compatible with basket lifts to help automate the cooking process make it safer for staff to lift the heavy loads of cooked pasta. These are great for schools, institutions or any heavy pasta production menu.

Oblong Baskets: These 15-3/4″ x 6″ x 7″ baskets are perfect for anyone who is adding pasta to their staple menu items or is not mass producing. Keep operations efficient with dual basket lifts with these baskets to process two cook cycles with different start and end times.

Round Baskets: These baskets are also great for a la carte options but can be cooked at various times. Great for small portions for kids menus or on the fly orders as necessary. Pair these with oblong baskets that can hold up to two Round baskets at once.

Solstice Burner

Pitco has a patented Solstice burner that provides for an increase in efficiency and overall production in commercial kitchens. The automatic self-cleaning mode makes cleanup simple and reduces costly labor demands. The baffle design of the Solstice Burner creates more heat, by increasing the output of the flame. This improves the air/gas mixture. This newly patented design eliminates the need for blowers and fragile ceramic units. The alloy heat baffles are long-lasting and help to achieve radiant mode quicker. This provides for faster cooking time and improved temperature recovery. The burner design allows for a high output thermal efficiency rating of 57%.

If you’re ready to explore the ways that a pasta cooker from Pitco can help your operation, we’re here to help. Schedule a free Fryer Consultation with one of our experts today.