Category: Art&Science

Upon the last week’s announcement, on May 17 the first in a series of workshops on Cook&Chill system, as part of the Chef2Chef seminar powered by Electrolux Professional and the Worldchefs, took place in Dubai (UAE).

The workshop is designed to merge the latest technology that incorporates an oven and blast chiller in a single solution and an innovative approach to sustainable cooking to improve chefs’ daily activities, and moreover to extend the range of their skills and techniques and build on their knowledge on nutritional value, texture, flavour and colour, while applying the art of sous vide cooking in modern day cuisine and culinary arts.

The Chef2Chef seminar in Dubai was held at the International Centre for Culinary Arts (ICCA Dubai), and led by an amazing team of Chefs: Silvano Costantini from Electrolux Professional and Andy Cuthbert, General Manager of Madinat Jumeirah and Chairman of the Worldchefs Young Chefs Development and the Emirates Culinary Guild.

Without any doubt and confirmed by the participants, the Chef2Chef workshop in Dubai was a very inspiring and insightful experience for both – the ICCA students and the Chefs from across the UAE and from all sectors of the hospitality industry. While eagerly expecting June 24, when the second Chef2Chef seminar will be organized in London (UK), the next workshop in Dubai is already planned for September this year.

Many thanks to Chef Andy Cuthbert, Chef Silvano Costanini and Mr. Mauro Zanchetta from Electrolux Professional, and Mr. Sunjeh Raja, Director of ICCA Dubai, for putting the workshop together, sharing their very best knowledge and expertise and making sure the participant acquire new and upgrade present skills and techniques and carry them forward in their daily operations. To get a glimpse of the amazing working atmosphere during the seminar, click on the below links:

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https://www.facebook.com/iccadubai.ae

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Worldchefs and Electrolux Professional have announced a milestone partnership, aimed at sharing their knowledge and increasing awareness of specific topics related to sustainable cooking.

Combining culinary creativity, talent and experience of the Worldchefs members with the knowledge, technology and proficiency offered by Electrolux Professional, the joint project titled “Art & Science Come Together”, will provide chefs with an essential hands-on experience.

The first project in the pipeline is “Chef2Chef” – a series of seminars created to bring chefs together at the Electrolux Professional Innovation Centers. The Electrolux Professional showrooms are designed and equipped to enable a vast of educational opportunities through different cooking sessions, trainings and demos. The “Chef2Chef” educational training sessions will be focusing on the core themes, such as sustainable cooking, all stages of utilizing locally sourced ingredients, along with premium technology solutions provided by Electrolux Professional, such as the Cook&Chill system. In its first stages, the partnership will focus on four key areas: Dubai, Russia, UK and US, and will feature several annual events in each Innovation Center. Worldchefs looks forward to this partnership and in bringing the beauty of ‘art & science’ in the kitchen to all our chef members globally.

For more information, visit Electrolux Professional website.

WORLDCHEFS is proud to announce an international alliance with Electrolux Professional, the world-renowned leader of professional kitchen solutions, aimed at sharing the common knowledge and increasing awareness on specific topics related to sustainable cooking.

This partnership will launch a number of dedicated exciting activities which will unite the beauty of the culinary arts with the breakthroughs in culinary technology, more specifically, the “Art & Science Come Together” program will combine the culinary creativity and talent of the Worldchefs chefs with the knowledge, technology and specialized experience of the solutions offered by Electrolux Professional.

For decades Electrolux has been present in one of the most demanding workplaces, the professional kitchen, gaining exclusive insight from working among top-ranked and talented chefs worldwide, which has led to the development of innovative and thoughtful solutions that improve the business of restaurants around the world and help consumers experience culinary enjoyment. Sharing this knowledge is at the very foundation of this exclusive partnership.

The first initiative in the pipeline within the “Art & Science Come Together” program is Chef2Chef, a series of seminars created to bring Chefs together at the Electrolux Professional Innovation Centers, extensive showrooms equipped with training kitchens designed for equipment demonstration, cooking sessions and educational trainings, spread across the world.

These educational training sessions will be focused around core themes, such as sustainable cooking utilizing locally sourced ingredients, with details on how chefs can plan, source, and prepare, using the technology and science behind the Electrolux Professional solutions, such as the Cook&Chill system. The partnership will focus initially on four key areas – Dubai, Russia, United Kingdom and United States – and will be featuring several annual events in each local Innovation Center, but more activities will follow, involving even more countries.

Says Gissur Gudmundsson, President of Worldchefs, “Electrolux has always been a preferred professional brand for chefs. We are pleased and excited about this partnership, which opens up numerous opportunities for chefs around the world to improve their skills and benefit from the vast knowledge and experience Electrolux Professional brings to the table.

“What makes Electrolux unique is that we are always focused on the solution for the foodservice players,” says Alberto Zanata, President of Electrolux Professional. “We offer a complete system that starts with the preparation, then the preservation and refrigeration, then the cooking process. When designing a product we talk about the complete process. You need product specialisation but at the same time we are also systems integrators: combining technology, sustainability and training is precisely what we aim to achieve with the “Art & Science Come Together” seminars.”

About Electrolux Professional

Electrolux Professional is the only supplier worldwide offering a complete range of high-performance products for professional kitchens and laundry under the same brand. Electrolux Professional provides best-in-class solutions and innovative products with excellent features and services to meet the needs of even the most demanding customers and which are frequently used under the same roof, working ‘hand in hand’ in businesses such as hotels and in hospitals. One professional brand with unique expertise within each business, Electrolux Professional supplies more than one third of the star-winning restaurants on the continent and remains a strong market leader in the professional laundry business. Our 2,000 service partners in 140 countries ensure that our resource-efficient equipment, leading in innovation and design, improve our customer’s everyday business. In 2013, Electrolux Professional had sales of EUR 640 million, 2.600 employees, 7 factories and over 1.000 dealers.

For more information visit the Electrolux Professional website 

About WORLDCHEFS

WORLDCHEFS is a global network of chefs associations first founded in October 1928 at the Sorbonne in Paris. At that first congress there  were 65 delegates from 17 countries, representing 36 national and international associations, and the venerable August Escoffier was named the first Honourary President. Today, this global body consists of 100 chefs associations as members that represent over 10 million professional chefs worldwide. The biennial Worldchefs congress is a hallmark tradition of the World Association of Chefs Societies and has been organised in over 20 cities across the world throughout its illustrious 86-year history. WORLDCHEFS is managed by an elected presidential body consisting of the WORLDCHEFS President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary General, as well as the board consisting of Honourary President, Past President and seven Continental Directors from Asia, Europe South, Central and North, Africa, Pacific and the Americas. Three separate committees, the Culinary Competitions Committee, the Education Committee and the Marketing and Communication committee, as well as several sub-committees, managing WORLDCHEFS programs and different activities.