Enersyst's
New JetSmart™ Technology Licensed to Middleby;
New Technology Improvement on Air Impingement Design
DALLAS, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/
-- Technology that slashes air impingement cooking times in half has
been developed and patented by Enersyst Development Center LLC. The
first licensee to secure the technology for production use is Middleby
Corporation (Nasdaq: MIDD). Middleby has secured the rights to
Enersyst's JetSmart™ technology for use in all sizes of conveyor
ovens sold commercially to the restaurant, convenience and grocery
industries.
The JetSmart™
high efficiency and high intensity air delivery system will be used in
production of conveyor ovens. The technology, which cooks up to twice as
fast as previous air impingement designs, uses no microwaves. Also,
fried texture, such as that found in french fries and fried cheese
sticks, can be achieved without the use of a deep fat fryer, reducing
foods' fat up to 50 percent.
Additionally,
Middleby has licensed Enersyst technologies that manage smoke and grease
by-products. Through Enersyst's Cool Wall™ design, grease from foods
is not allowed to carbonize on the walls of the oven, but instead flows
down the sides and out of the bottom, resulting in a cleaner, more
efficient oven.
The adoption of
these technologies will expand categories of conveyorized cooking with
air impingement, including burgers, steaks, chicken and shrimp.
Operators will benefit from labor simplification, ease of equipment
cleaning and product standardization.
"Through the use of
Enersyst's JetSmart™ technology, we further the expansion of
applications for speed cooking with impingement and provide much needed
capacity for high volume restaurants,'' said Sarah Palisi, CEO of
Enersyst Development Center. "The technology will help restaurants
reduce space needed for equipment and simplify cooking jobs.''
"Our plan for
JetSmart™ technology is to revolutionize kitchens of the foodservice
industry. The technology enables us to produce smaller ovens with
increased capacity, resulting in less capital expenditure for
restaurants,'' said Selim Bassoul, president and CEO, Middleby
Corporation. "The benefits of this conveyorized, speed-cooking,
self-cleaning oven will attract all types of restaurants, kiosks,
convenience and grocery stores. We are looking forward to Middleby
expanding its leadership in the pizza industry to all segments of the
foodservice market.''
"This technology
will open the market up for conveyorization and automation,'' said Mark
Sieron, vice president and general manager of Middleby Marshall, a
division of Middleby Corporation. "Middleby excels at providing
restaurants the technology to efficiently run operations. Because
JetSmart™ is adept at cooking proteins, such as chicken, hamburgers
and even shrimp, restaurants from casual dining to seafood to Mexican
can benefit from the ovens. We see this new technology as a way to
automate every segment of the restaurant industry.''
An improvement even
on Enersyst's own air impingement technology, JetSmart™ is up to
twice as fast due to a more intense harnessing of air impingement
design. Heat is transferred faster and more efficiently in the new
design.
Middleby has
licensed Enersyst's air impingement technology for use with continuous
cooking platforms for 20 years. With the recent licensing of new
Enersyst technologies, Middleby offers ovens that can further reduce
cooking time in half.
About Enersyst
Development Center
Enersyst Development
Center is a leading intellectual property developer and strategic
marketer of food related technology, offered under license for use in
equipment for foodservice restaurants, industrial food processing,
vending and residential markets. The company holds more than 150 patents
and foreign equivalents and adds to its technological leadership every
year. Enersyst's Chef Consortium develops food products for chain
restaurants and food formulations for food manufacturers.
Enersyst invented
and then developed the revolutionary air impingement cooking technology
for NASA in the 1980s, and it went on to transform the fast food
industry, reducing pizza cooking times from 27 minutes to six. Air
impingement technology now dominates chain restaurants' conveyor belts
the world over and is today used in more than 125,000 professional ovens
to dramatically reduce cooking time while maintaining the taste, flavor
and appearance of foods cooked in traditional ovens. The first
residential applications of this technology are being launched under the
Thermador brand. Founded in 1969, Enersyst is independently owned and
operated and can be found on the Web at www.enersyst.com
.
About Middleby
Corporation
The Middleby
Corporation is a leader in the design, manufacture, marketing and
service of a broad line of equipment used for cooking and preparation of
food in commercial and institutional kitchens and restaurants throughout
the world. The company's leading equipment brands include Middleby
Marshall, Southbend, and Toastmaster. Middleby's international
subsidiary, Middleby Worldwide, is a leading exporter and distributor of
foodservice equipment in the global marketplace and its international
manufacturing subsidiary, Middleby Philippines Corporation, is a leading
supplier of specialty equipment in the Asian markets. For further
information about Middleby, visit the company's World Wide Web site, http://www.middleby.com
.
SOURCE: Enersyst
Development Center LLC
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