What is a Pressure Fryer

Have you wondered how fried chicken joints produce a deceptively juicy product?

One component of the secret lies within special equipment known as a (commercial) pressure fryer.

Then, what exactly is a commercial pressure fryer?

A commercial pressure fryer relies on pressure cooking techniques – in which food and cooking oil are heated at high pressures in an enclosed fryer so as to produce delicious dishes at any given moment. This is what makes it different from normal home fryers or open fryers currently found in your commercial kitchen.

How Does a Pressure Fryer Work?

Pressure frying works by increasing atmospheric pressure inside of an enclosed fryer. As atmospheric pressure rises, so too does water’s boiling point–in this instance the liquid contained within your chicken meal–rising and having multiple effects: reduced cooking times for your final dish as a result and faster process times as more is pushed through.

A Pressure Fryer’s Importance to Your Commercial Kitchen

You can never imagine what a pressure fryer can bring to your business if you don’t use it before.

• Faster cooking time. When serving large lunch and dinner crowds, your goal should be to have food out the kitchen door as soon as possible. Without an open fryer, this can slow down too much. An advantage to owning a commercial pressure fryer is faster cooking times; thus speeding up production batches and serving more customers.
• Flavor enhancing. Any chef would tell you that flavor and consistency are equally as essential when serving their customers. While that can often only be accomplished manually using traditional methods, using a pressure cooker makes getting it right every time easy thanks to its mechanized heating and pressure systems.
• Stable deep frying performance. Pressure frying provides consistently juicer, crispier fried foods in every batch cooked.
• Cost-effective. Reduced oil usage has not only health advantages, but is also cost-effective. It can maintain oil quality for longer so that restaurants save both oil consumption and energy use in the long run. Furthermore, faster cooking times contribute towards energy conservation too!
• Cooking healthier food. Eating while discussing unhealthy eating may seem alienated to many when discussing fast food fried dishes. But pressure frying offers far healthier ways of cooking when compared with high-volume deep fryers.