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UK’s leading combi steamer brand celebrates 40th anniversary by giving away late...

My Rational! One Lucky Caterer Will Win £8,000 Combi Steamer
The company that invented combi steaming, Rational, is 40 years old in 2013. Now Rational is celebrating the anniversary by giving UK caterers the chance to win the world’s most popular combi steamer – the Rational SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency®. The prize, a six-grid model, is worth over £8,000.

The competition is a simple free prize draw. To...
 

Caffè Culture Combi: space-saving, multi-functional, user-friendly cooking

The Rational SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency® shows its coffee shop credentials
Stand J6, Caffè Culture Show, 15-16 May 2013, Olympia, London.

What’s the best sort of cooking equipment for the coffee shop sector? Limited space means it has to be multifunctional, but customer expectations mean it has to be able to produce quality results, despite staff often having limited cooking skills. At Caffè Culture...
 

School CookingLive!

Rational offers combi steamer demonstrations for school caterers
The need to reduce running costs combined and the demand for healthier, better tasting menus have led many schools to consider investing in combi steamers. Their energy efficiency and ability to reduce shrinkage, so that schools get more portions per kilo of raw food, can make a real difference to the budget.

Now Rational, the market leader in...
 

Event catering: making time for those finishing touches

Scotts of Carshalton uses Rationals to grow outside catering business
Recently, the outside catering business at Scotts of Carshalton has really taken off. On busy weekends staff can cater for up to twelve big buffets. Scotts has come a long way from the original family business of selling meat from a horse and cart. There are 8 chefs and 16 waiting staff for events, with extras drafted in as necessary, as well...
 

ScotHot Action!

Rational SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency® in action at ScotHot, 4th – 6th March 2013, SECC Glasgow
Rational will be putting the new SelfCookingCenter whitefficiency through its paces on Stand 4410 at ScotHot 2013. Every meal of the working day will be covered from a breakfast of croissants, grilled bacon, sausages, tomatoes, hash browns and eggs to lunch items such as pizzas, steaks and chips. For those with...
 

Combi Steamers provide the Rational school meals solution

Healthier foods, lower running costs
The increasing focus on healthier school meals combined with tough budgets has led many school meals providers to ask their equipment suppliers for help finding a solution. Rational says the latest combi steamer technology offers school caterers the ideal cooking solution: healthier foods combined with lower running costs.

“While lower running costs and healthier foods are...
 

Foodservice drives success at innovative, award-winning farm shop

Suffolk Food Hall invests in Rational SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency® for consistency, quality and ease of use
The Suffolk Food Hall shows just how far the concept of the farm shop can be taken – and how successful it can be.  A regular award winner, including the Best Local Food in UK & Ireland 2011, the site opened in 2007 to be a showcase of local produce.  Suffolk Food Hall now houses a farm shop, garden...
 

There’s more to running a butcher’s shop than butchering

Scotts of Carshalton diversifies with Rationals to make the most of good quality meat
Scotts of Carshalton is a family butcher and outside catering business established over four generations. It started simply in South East London with Alan’s grandfather and great grandfather selling meat from a horse and cart and grew into a popular butcher’s shop in Carshalton, Surrey, making its name by providing high...
 

“No Rational, No Oktoberfest”

On 22nd September 2012 the Oktoberfest in Munich opened for the 179th time. Rational has been partner to numerous beer tent companies for years. One of these is Pschorr Bräurosl, whose junior manager and chef Pascal Heide-Nigg says his Rational combi steamers are an essential part of his Oktoberfest set-up.

Pascal Heide-Nigg and his 50-strong team prepare no less than 10,000 meals on an average Oktoberfest day,...
 

Rational Flexibility is major benefit for Union Jack Club

London-based armed forces charity uses SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency® combi steamers for everything from breakfast to banquets – and they help cut costs
The Union Jack Club near Waterloo in London is a charity whose objective is to provide serving and former armed forces personnel with good quality hotel accommodation at a reasonable price.  Last year 104,000 people stayed there.  But it’s much more than a...