Commercial smoke ovens allow you to turn out deliciously authentic smoked foods that have become wildly popular among American consumers within the past decade. Pulled pork and Texas-style smoked beef brisket are just two of the many sought-after dishes prompting many restaurateurs to add smoked foods to their menus. Imparting true hickory-smoked flavor to meats, poultry, fish and cheese requires more than just dousing the foods with artificially flavored smoke extract. It involves roasting those foods in a specially designed smoke oven that you can use indoors or out.
If investing in a high performing commercial smoker oven is beyond your means, you can buy more affordable smoker equipment that allows you to prepare the same hickory-flavored foods by conventional oven smoking and even on stove tops. When it comes time to purchase smoke oven equipment, you have many options available to you:
1. Save time and money when you do the smoking yourself with commercial smoker ovens.
2. Design your own smoker oven and have it built to your specifications.
3. Buy smoker cookers to use in your conventional oven or on your stove top.
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Smoke your own foods with a commercial smoker oven
If your menu relies heavily on smoked foods, it's cost-efficient to do the smoking yourself.
I recommend: Zesco Products supplies the Alta Shaam Halo Heat Cook & Hold Smoking Oven. This state of the art product uses wood chips to impart a true smoked flavor to foods and comes equipped with a timer allowing you to set different degrees of smoked flavor, depending upon your preference.
Instawares offers the Chef System Electric Smoker Oven in different models, which regulates the holding temperature so that when you finally serve, your food tastes as if it you just made it.
Order custom built smokers when standard smokers don't suit your needs
If you're a professional smoker who's looking for a unique product that's just not available from restaurant equipment wholesalers, or a standard smoker just won't fit into our restaurant's floor layout, consider having a smoker custom built.
I recommend: Beech Ovens has emerged as a market leader in high quality commercial cooking equipment, serving customers all over the world. The company builds smokers according to its clients' exact specifications.
KCK.com, operating out of Kansas City, builds handmade custom commercial rotisserie smokers, including gas grill smokers and smoker wood fire boxes.
Turn your conventional oven or stove top into a commercial smoker
Perhaps your budget doesn't allow you to purchase a separate smoker, or you just don't have the room for one.
I recommend: Camerons Products offers a wide selection of high performing stainless steel cookware and accessories for smoker cookers. The company offers free shipping on any order over $100.
Chef's Catalog sells a stove top smoker that's available in large and small sizes. Buy one or several to smoke your meats, poultry and fish. The company has been carrying name brand cookware since 1979.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide
- Add special flavors to your smoked foods by experimenting with different kinds of wood smoker chips in your smoker oven. Use flavors such as maple, apple or persimmon.
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