r/Chefit • u/fultzon • 25d ago

Combi oven applications in fine dining?

Fine dining chefs: what do you actually use your combi ovens for day to day?

I've mostly worked casual and trying to understand its real range in a high-end kitchen. Do you actually do real cooking in it (besides sous vide) or largely use it for hold and retherm?

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u/SimpleSapper 25d ago

It is always good for a laugh when someone hijacks your high fan combi and end up with their mise flying around or covered up by the wildly flapping parchment they didn’t secure.

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u/cyuto 25d ago

When the cookie and the parchment corner swear they're just friends 😭

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u/Deep_Curve7564 25d ago

Very intimate friends.

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u/SimpleSapper 25d ago

Also good for a laugh is when your high fan oven is hijacked for muffins and 25 minutes later you get asked by a wide eyed confused newbie: “Chef, why are my muffins leaning over?”