FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.—Electrolux introduces the newest addition to its professional air-o-steam range: the air-o-steam TOUCHLINE. “The new air-o-steam TOUCHLINE combi oven is truly one of a kind,” says Angelo Grillas, director of Marketing for Electrolux Professional North America. “It is the evolution of Electrolux combi ovens—a perfect blend of Electrolux’s history and future. The new air-o-steam TOUCHLINE symbolizes our commitment to technologically advanced, reliable and environmentally sustainable products.”
When developing the air-o-steam TOUCHLINE, Electrolux Professional conducted approximately 1,200 interviews with end users all around the world to get their input for the new oven. “Research has shown that our customers need a simple easy-to-operate
control panel without jeopordizing the integrity and performance of an Electrolux combi oven,” Grillas says.
With air-o-steam TOUCHLINE, there’s no more need for complicated cooking: a single touch is all that’s required to prepare meals due to the user-friendly High Definition Touch Screen featuring 262,000 colors, 30 languages, and internationally-recognized icons and food images. “The new intuitive interface is perfect for all types of customers and kitchens requiring automatic, manual or pre-set cooking. Operating the oven can be as easy as you want it to be,” Grillas says.
Three Different Cooking Modes
The new air-o-steam TOUCHLINE cooking modes are as follows:
• Automatic. The automatic mode is the easiest way to cook. It offers eight cooking categories according to different food types: just select the icon or food image. TOUCHLINE automatically detects the type of food and load size. Cooking time, temperature, and ideal cooking climate are then calculated, and adjusted automatically and continuously.
• Programs. The programs mode allows users to save their preferred recipes and repeat them anytime. TOUCHLINE is the only oven that offers memory for up to 1,000 recipes, which can be saved on a USB stick and replicated or sent via e-mail, and used in any TOUCHLINE-equipped kitchen.
• Manual. The manual mode is the traditional way of cooking, which allows chefs to set and keep the oven under constant control at the touch of a finger, while taking care of the everyday activities in the kitchen.
Electrolux is making positive contributions to sustainable development through its operations as well as through its energy-efficient products like the air-o-steam TOUCHLINE oven, one of the greenest ovens on the market. The oven’s highly-efficient, low-pollutant gas burners allow for CO2 emissions that are 10 times lower than the limits set by Gastec (the Dutch government certification, which is the strictest in Europe) and 100 times lower than the European Standard Limit.
The air-o-steam TOUCHLINE also offers several additional green features: gas burners and a heat exchanger that ensure up to 20 percent gas consumption savings compared with traditional burners; Low Temperature Cooking (LTC) controlled by the patented Lambda sensor that reduces food weight loss by up to 50 percent, thus eliminating significant waste; and the new automatic cleaning green functions that allow users to choose between the “Skip Drying Phase,” “Skip Rinse Aid,” and “Reduce Water Consumption” options, thus optimizing savings in rinse aid, electricity and water (up to 25 percent), and reducing operating costs (up to 50 percent).
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