100% Chef: the new materials for catering.
Back to the future... with 100% Chef! Ceramic and porcelain are the cornerstones, but no longer the only winning materials in the world of catering. Testimony to this is the catalog of 100% Chef - a Spanish company that has made its way into haute cuisine through its range of handcrafted, designer items with hyper-realistic shapes - which increasingly offers work in marble, resin, and a return to glass, which is more fragile but also easier to work with and is molded in ever-changing shapes and colors.
100% Chef: the products in marble, granite and quartz
Let's start with the 100% Chef products in marble and granite, where the material and completely handcrafted workmanship are the strong points. Each plate is a unique piece, a feature that makes it inimitable, with the color depending on the natural characteristics of the materials, which can therefore vary slightly in shade and size. The marble in which they are carved is always Macael, quarried in the Spanish town of the same name, which with its coarse grain and homogeneous appearance alternates white and gray tones. 100% Chef products in Macael marble are crafted by expert artisans, whose know-how and experience make them true works of art.
100% Chef granite dishes, Granite e Granite Double Face, respectively, have a slightly recessed base for easy removal from the table and the ability to be used on both sides, to keep sauces and juices on the surface without spilling, while also offering a larger capacity.
Of the 100% Marble Chef plates, there is one for services of all kinds: tray-style (Roman XL) and for tapas, entrées and finger food (Corner XL); holsters (Beehive) and tasting bowls (Sphere, Imperial e Starfish); recipes with sauce (Lagoon); oriental dishes or samples with dry product (Osaka) and many different uses, from appetizers to main courses to desserts (Lingot).
As for 100% Chef quartz products, this one is polished with the mineral mica, intended to give magical glow to the light of your venue. If in the central hole of the Golf plate you can insert small spherical creations, the hollow part of the Fortune plate allows you to serve courses with sauces without the risk of annoying spills.
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100% Chef: resin products
Resin is another of the materials harnessed by the Spanish company to impress. The resin used by 100% Chef, in particular, is hand-painted with food-grade paint that is resistant to impact, wear, and chipping. RGmania currently offers the Fishleaf plate, to be used as a tray in sushi restaurants to serve maki, nigiri, uramaki; the mora goblet and a series of small cups - shaped like an apple, pineapple, orange, strawberry, tomato - testifying to how 100% Chef succeeds in transforming simple ideas into masterpieces of presentation, which stimulate the imagination for thematic drinks and desserts, as well as for savory dishes, finished simply with the flavorings corresponding to the patterns of the containers.
100% Chef: the glass products
100% Chef's experiments also touch glass, borosilicate as in the case of the Milk Shake glass, perfect for cocktails that look like milkshakes or slushies. As for plates, here is the diamond pattern of the Anisette bottle dish, for original and sophisticated creations; the amber glass of the Textures rectangular plate, to take customers on a vintage gastronomic journey, reminiscent of Arabian art in texture and North African markets in color; the opal glass of the Boiling dishes, glass plates made with the 'Fusing' technique, also as a support to enhance dishes in which mists produced with dry ice are added; finally, the sandblasted glass of the Cadaques plates, for serving seafood dishes or finger food, playing on the colors and marine atmospheres.
100% Chef: realism as a distinctive feature
That realism is the hallmark of 100% Chef is evidenced finally by a series of inventions in different materials, such as the stoneware of the Dragon dish, whose sides precisely emulate the scales of a dragon. We then find the ivory stoneware of the Ceasar Palace column-shaped bottom plate, a column-shaped plate capable of enhancing desserts and pastries in particular. We close the circle as we had opened it, that is, with porcelain but interpreted in a realist key, from the Vasca glass to ignite the magic as in Dario Comini's cocktail bar, to the Spider Crab cup and to the Braided plates, which are ideal for presenting fresh, seafood-flavored dishes.
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