Cooking Equipment
At Vortex Restaurant Equipment, we’re here to help you find the perfect cooking equipment for your restaurant business in Vancouver and beyond. We offer a wide range of restaurant equipment to meet the demands of any commercial kitchen, including broilers, charbroilers, commercial range, commercial fryers, griddles, hot plates, specialty equipment, steam cooking, wok range and gas connectors. Whether you’re upgrading or starting fresh, Vortex ensures your kitchen is fully equipped with reliable, performance-driven tools—all at a price that fits your budget. Get in touch with us today for all your restaurant equipment needs!
Broilers
Designed to deliver even heat and powerful results, our range of broilers will transform any creation into the signature dish. Shop our Vancouver Restaurant Supply Online Store and choose from variety of Commercial Broilers including cheese melters, gyro-machines, salamanders and upright-broilers.
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Charbroilers
Our commercial charbroilers are designed for consistent, high-performance grilling in bustling restaurant kitchens. They’re perfect for infusing foods with a smoky, char-grilled flavor while leaving those iconic grill marks on sandwiches and vegetables. Explore our Restaurant Supply Online Store to find a diverse selection of Commercial Charbroilers including electric charbroilers, lava rock charbroilers, and radiant charbroilers.
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Commercial Range
A commercial range is the heart of any busy professional kitchen, providing multiple cooking methods such as sautéing, boiling, broiling, and baking. We offer a wide selection, from compact countertop models to heavy-duty ranges with features like ovens and griddles. Shop our Restaurant Supply Online Store for a variety of commercial ranges, including electric ranges, gas ranges, and stock pot ranges.
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Commercial Fryers
Commercial fryers are essential for any restaurant kitchen, making deep-frying easy and efficient. Designed to deliver consistent crispiness in less time, commercial fryers are available in various sizes and types, including gas and electric models. Shop our Restaurant Supply Online Store for a variety of commercial fryers in Vancouver, including countertop fryers, electric fryers, gas fryers, and oil filtration machines.
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Griddles
Commercial griddles are versatile and affordable additions to your restaurant kitchen: They provide consistent heat for even cooking and can accommodate multiple items simultaneously on their large cooking surface, improving efficiency during peak hours. Shop our Restaurant Supply Online Store to easily incorporate favorites like burgers and breakfast items into your menu with commercial griddles including electric griddles, manual gas griddles, and thermostatic gas griddles.
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Hot Plates
Commercial hot plates are compact yet powerful, designed to fit small countertop spaces. Ideal for small restaurant kitchens, cafes, concession stands, or food trucks, they provide convenient access to high-performance cooking equipment without compromising space or efficiency. Choose from a wide range of countertop hot plates including electric hot plates, gas hot plates and induction cookers.
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Specialty Equipment
Specialty cooking equipment is crafted to meet unique culinary needs, from sous vide to dehydrating fruits and making waffle cones. Our selection of commercial-grade equipment boost kitchen performance, enabling chefs to achieve consistent results, expand menu offerings, and prepare essential ingredients in-house for fresher, high-quality dishes. Shop our wide range of specialty equipment including crepe makers, pressure cookers, pasta cookers, rice cookers & rice warmers, sandwich grills, sous vides, waffle makers, and dehydrators.
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Steam Cooking
Commercial steam cooking equipment uses steam to cook food evenly, retaining moisture, nutrients, color, and texture while minimizing shrinkage. Ideal for batch cooking and retherming, many of these models offer gentle heating and humidity control, making them perfect for high-volume kitchens. Choose from variety of commercial steam cooking equipment including steamers, tilting skillets and steam kettles.
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Wok Range
Wok ranges are essential to preparing top quality Mandarin or Cantonese style food. Woks are used in a range of different Chinese cooking techniques, including stir frying, steaming, pan frying, deep frying, poaching, boiling, braising, searing, stewing, making soup, smoking and roasting nuts. Traditionally-shaped woks use a "wok ring," which provides stability and concentrates heat. Shop our Restaurant Supply Online Store and choose from variety of Commercial Wok Range including chinese wok range and mandarin stock pot range.
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Outdoor Cooking Equipment
Commercial outdoor cooking equipment is designed for high-performance and durability, catering to the demanding needs of professional chefs and outdoor events. These robust appliances ensure consistent heat distribution and versatile cooking options, making them ideal for restaurants, catering services, and outdoor kitchens.
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Gas Connectors
Vortex Restaurant Equipment offers gas hoses and connectors for all your gas appliances. There are varying types of gas connection fittings such as swivel or fixed as well as those with an emergency shut-off valve. All our connections are fully certified and will provide years of safe service.
Power your kitchen with the best commercial cooking equipment.
Correct cooking equipment is no luxury but necessary for any busy commercial kitchen. Whether it’s the perfect sear on a steak or the crispiest golden fries, it all begins with using the right tools. Good-quality cooking equipment is an investment that promises to be consistent and efficient, which ultimately translates into serving the best dishes to your customers.
What is Commercial Cooking Equipment?
Commercial cooking equipment means all the setup tools that prepare, cook, and finish food as accurately and swiftly as possible in highly commercial kitchens. Its performance is constant with no deterioration and is indispensable to any restaurant, café, or catering business.
The principal kinds of cooking equipment
- Broilers: Broilers allow for high heat, which is helpful when the food needs to brown, caramelize, or melt. At the same time, they help the food be the right colour for burning.
- Charbroilers: Charbroilers give food a grilled flavour, which is particularly handy for almost all meat, fish, and seafood.
- Commercial Ranges: A commercial range is a multipurpose cooking unit that combines burners with ovens. It is crucial in every kitchen preparation station.
- Commercial grills: These deep fry well making the food crispy and golden such as fries, wings, and tempura.
- Griddles: Their flat top is best for preparing breakfast items, sandwiches, and dishes in stir fry.
- Hot plates: The compact size of the burner for boiling or simmering or to be used in other small spaces since they can be used as an auxiliary device.
- Specialty Equipment: Pasta cookers, tortilla warmers, or cheese melters are primarily used for specialty equipment applications.
- Steam Cooking: Perfect for steaming vegetables, seafood, and even dumplings can help one attain healthier cooking habits.
- Wok Ranges: Used for high heat and fast cooking methods, particularly during stirfrying and other preparations of Asian cuisine.
Advantages of Commercial Cooking Equipment
- Speed and Efficiency: Commercial cooking equipment is designed to have high-temperature speeds, focusing on good temperature control with the shortest possible recovery time. This allows to create various dishes during peak hours with efficiency and ease.
- Consistency and Quality: Good-quality cookware produces homogenous temperatures throughout. Whether searing steak on a charbroiler or perfectly frying a fish, it makes a difference. With consistency comes repetition every time.
- Versatility: It provides various equipment options for preparing a broad menu in the kitchen. This includes stir-fry Asian dishes, the wok range, steamed vegetables, and grilled meats. Versatile equipment supports culinary creativity while maintaining efficiency.
- Durability and Reliability: Built to last from rugged materials and endure the harsh demands of a commercial kitchen, it takes less time it takes to repair if ever needed.
- Increased Safety: With features like gas connectors that have secure and stable designs, there are fewer chances of accidents in the busy kitchen, ensuring the safety of your team members.
- Saves Cost: Energy-efficient cooking equipment saves much energy and the durability of the build also reduces the costs of repair and replacement.
How It Helps Your Business
Commercial cooking equipment is the heartbeat of any restaurant or food service business, bringing speed, consistency, and reliability to match expectations. It can serve all sorts of menu options as required. With these pieces of equipment, the chef can streamline operations in the kitchen and do what he wants: cook wonderful dishes without ever thinking about the tools. Once you have the right equipment, you will increase the speed of service, improve food quality, and lower the operational cost.
At Vortex Restaurant Equipment, you can get the best commercial cooking equipment for your kitchen. Call us today to find the perfect solution to take your kitchen to the next level.