Autumn 2008 News

Potting machine

At last! The long awaited Multidose potting machine has arrived from Corema. Ideal for filling 125ml pots or even 500ml pots, you can use inclusions up to 10mm diameter or marbled products without any problem.

The Multidose machine uses a 13 amp supply and compressed air and can be controlled manually or with a foot pedal. The ice cream hopper can be filled directly from the batch freezer and your inclusions or marble sauce added at this stage. To find out more and watch a video of the Multidose in action, visit Ice Cream Pot Filler Machine. To arrange a live demonstration, please contact us.

RSS supplies to Michelin chef in London

I wonder what it must be like to follow in the footsteps of Gordon Ramsey? That’s exactly what two star Michelin chef Hélène Darroze is doing at the Connaught Hotel in London. The kitchens have been ripped out and refurbished to meet Ms Darroze’s requirements including a new Corema Thermogel 4-8 combination machine in the pastry kitchen. Under the management of Kirk Whittal who also works for Darroze on the Left Bank in Paris, the pastry chefs will use the Thermogel to cook large quantities of ice cream mix and freeze it straight down to ice cream, as well as lemon curds, Crème Patissiere, in fact anything that requires cooking and cooling. The machine was bought in order to allow them to meet the quantities required for the size of the restaurants at the first class hotel. Find out more about the Thermogel batch freezer.

Looking after your equipment

If you ever needed a reason to justify the expense of servicing your ice cream equipment then here it is: keep your EHO happy! One of the questions they will routinely ask you is how do you know that your thermometer is reading the correct value? The only way is to check it using a calibrated thermometer that has been recently certified to prove that it is showing the correct temperature. Our maintenance programme on your pasteurizer or mix cooker includes checking and recalibrating your equipment thermometer if necessary. We will give you a certificate of our calibrated thermometer along with a print out of your thermometer reaching 85c to file for the benefit of the EHO. For a quote, contact Paul Lewis on 01432 377045 or email him at paul.lewis@rsshereford.co.uk.

Awards flying this summer

Here are two RSS customers that we’ve heard about this summer scooping ice cream awards at local shows.

Hope Valley Ice Cream “a taste of Hope” have won the Best Dairy Product at this years Bakewell Show, with their Gertrude’s Whisky and Ginger Ice Cream.  Their ice cream won its class in the Ice Cream category and then went on to win the Best Dairy Product in Show collecting the Alice Robinson Memorial trophy. “It is a real honour to win this award as we are still in our first year of production” said Bob Marsden. “Mum and Dad spent a lot of time and effort tasting whisky to get just the right one”. It’s called Gertrude’s Whisky & Ginger because it is just like Gertrude the cow, it has a kick! Gertrude is from a very old family of cows, “her mother used to kick my dad and her grandmother used to kick my Grandad” says Bob.

A bit further north in Perth, Scotland, Richard Kelly from Lickwid is celebrating coming second in the Highland Show for his Strawberry ice cream. Judge for the day Chef Nick Nairn described it as “bloody good strawberry” – and you can’t say fairer than that!

The RSS “family” grows

We would like to introduce you to Russell Wells who joined the company in May as a Service Technician. Russell is learning all about ice cream equipment and will be the one to install and demonstrate any new machines that you may purchase. He is being trained to support Paul Lewis in our technical department to solve any technical issue that may arise with your equipment.

We welcome Russell to the team and hope that you get the chance to meet him soon.