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Clifton Food Range® have been supporting The Chefs’ Forum since its launch in January 2012 and we are delighted to be a part of such a successful organisation where catering, educational establishments and top end suppliers come together with local chefs to discuss ideas, current trends and ‘must have’ products.

April has been a busy month as we attended three Chef Forum events across the South West. Two of these events focussed on sous vide cooking. The Cornwall launch at Academy Nathan Outlaw saw Chef Stephane Jouan and Melvin Dickson do a demo using Monkfish accompanied by confit tomato.

This demonstration highlighted the Clifton water baths and the benefits of sous vide cooking. The well attended event was then followed by the Plymouth Forum where Chis Tanner from Tanners Restaurant demonstrated sous vide techniques using a range of different meats supplied by Master Butcher Steve Turton of Andrew James Butchery. Click here to read all our latest news.

Here at Clifton, we are always conscious of the natural environment and do our best to be as sustainable as possible. We have a large garden at the back of our factory which includes a sizeable vegetable and herb patch and an orchard of apples, plums and pears. We have two bee hives at the bottom of the garden, where the bees are hard at work producing honey.

Not many people would think we have such a productive garden behind our factory premises, but as spring is upon us, our Clifton garden is now coming back to life and we wanted to share it with you.

Our latest addition to the Clifton garden is our new Bug Hotel. Full of nooks, crannies and secret dark places, the hotel is a perfect resting place for bugs to hide during the cold nights, bad weather and a safe retreat from predators. We are also currently planting a native hedge that will eventually be a haven for birds to nest, and our two wildlife ponds are currently accommodating a mass of frogspawn.
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This cutting edge benchtop freeze dryer known as the Cliftonfreezdryer is the latest addition to the Clifton Food Range®. The unit offers sophistication and simplicity of use. It allows innovation in texture, flavour and appearance. Create your own flaked or powdered mushrooms, bananas, tomatoes, strawberries etc, giving full flavour and unusual mouthfeel. The components can be used to compliment your own culinary creativity.

Added to stocks, sauces and other prepared meals, the freeze dried items will rehydrate to be almost as fresh as the day they were first prepared. The flavours, smells and nutritional content remains unchanged.

Melvin Dickson, Managing Director of Clifton Food Range® comments; “We are really pleased to be offering chefs this new and exciting product. The results that can be achieved with the Cliftonfreezdyer are remarkable.” (more…)

Clifton Food Range® are delighted to announce the arrival of their new centrifuge. Ideal for chefs that want to push boundaries, experiment with new and exciting techniques and create intense flavours and textures. The Cliftonfoodfuge centrifuge allows the chef to discover an exciting new dimension to food by breaking it down to its component parts.

The Cliftonfoodfuge is a compact table top high speed unit taking 4 x 250ml tubes on a swing out rotor. After blitzing down food items e.g tomatoes, grapefruit in a blender, they can be placed into the tubes and spun at high speed to separate particulates from liquids, extracting all the flavour.

The Cliftonfoodfuge will separate the components of the food by density, so that heavier components are at the base and liquid at the top. This produces clear intense flavoured liquids which can then be used as part of a dish or in a cocktail. (more…)

Nickel -Electro have now produced 100,000 units in their range of electrical products, which include the popular Clifton Food Range® sous vide water baths.

All electrical products manufactured have a unique serial number and the company are pleased to announce the 100,000th has been allocated to a Clifton Digital Immersion Circulator, which has been supplied to Russums.

Russums have been a long standing and loyal Clifton Food Range® distributor for many years. They sell Clifton products to the educational market as well as the professional hospitality industry. Russums are delighted to be issuing the immersion circulator to Sheffield Hallam University, a respected and well known University for its catering and hospitality courses. Norman Dinsdale, Senior Lecturer in Hospitality Management will be using the Clifton sous vide equipment with his students. (more…)

Clifton Food Range® had another successful day at this year’s Scottish Chefs Conference, where Mark Greenaway, Lisa Allen and Will Holland used the Clifton water baths during their informative demonstrations. The event is held for chefs and colleges to come together to acquire knowledge and techniques from some of the most respected chefs in the world. It’s a chance to meet suppliers offering the latest products and cutting edge innovations as well as network with fellow chefs and trade members.

During the demonstrations, Mark Greenaway commented that sous vide is a new way of cooking but a very traditional method and that he felt lucky to have the Clifton bath in his kitchen. Lisa Allan said it was really good to be able to be surrounded by suppliers at an event such as SCC where the chef can meet with the trade to see what the do, what the offer and who they are.

Will Holland gave a demonstration along with his junior sous chef, Liam Dillon and focused on ‘The Water Bath in the Modern Kitchen.’ Will has been a great supporter of Clifton Food Range® products for many years. It was a real honour to see him using the baths as a focal point during his demonstration. (more…)

Clifton Food Range® have redesigned their range of stirred water baths to include a rotating multi-directional stirrer unit with a cleverly fixed hinged lid.

The new 14 litre and 28 litre stirred water baths consist of an unheated stainless steel tank housed in a stainless steel case. To one side is a bridge unit which has an immersion circulator fitted. The new fixed immersion circulator controller can now be rotated so that the bath can be used ‘side to side’ or end on to optimise ‘left to right’ counter top space. It can also be rotated so it can be viewed from any angle of the kitchen. As the stirrer rotates through 3 main principle viewing angles, the chef can choose whether the lid opens on the left hand side of the tank, or the right.

There is also a new stainless steel integral bi-folding lid (registered design) with an easy grab insulated handle. The clever design of the concertina lid can be pushed open to reveal the chamber and as the lid is attached to the water bath, there is no need to find a place to put it when removed. The 14 litre bath has a smaller hinged lid attached which covers the surface area of the bath and can easily be lifted up to remain in position when adding food items to the water bath. (more…)

Clifton Food Range® takes great pleasure in introducing their new 8 litre Compact Duobath™ ~ a variation on the popular 8 litre Duobath ™.

With the controls placed on the narrow end, the whole unit can be run from ‘front to back’ on the counter top. This results in a saving where space is at a premium in busy kitchens. Drain taps for each chamber are located on the front panel making it easy to clean and use.

The Compact Duobath™ allows the chef to cook at two different temperatures simultaneously and with two different liquids, e.g. water in one side and oil in the other. The Duobath ™ includes a run-dry protection function, low water level warning and current time and temperature settings will be retained in memory even after ‘power off’. The side lifting handles are offset to ensure that the bath is balanced when carried around the kitchen.

Managing Director, Melvin Dickson says: “We are really excited to have expanded our range of baths to now offer chefs a variation on the popular 8 litre Duobath™. This model not only allows the chef to use two chambers at any one time, but makes more efficient use of counter top space used in busy kitchens.”

All products in the Clifton Food Range® are manufactured in the UK and come with a 2-year warranty.