What is a commercial speed oven?

A commercial speed oven combines microwave, convection, and sometimes steam cooking technologies to cook food quickly while maintaining high quality. Because it uses a variety of methods to cook food, a single speed oven has the versatility to produce food for an entire menu. 

How does a speed oven work? 

A speed oven works by combining multiple cooking methods — typically microwave, convection, and sometimes steam heating. The microwave heats food quickly from the inside, while the convection fan circulates hot air for even cooking and browning. Steam heating adds moisture to the cooking process, helping to preserve the texture and flavor of delicate foods, such as vegetables and fish. The combination of these methods significantly reduces cooking time while delivering results similar to traditional commercial ovens.  

Deliver quality food fast with high speed ovens.

Once you witness the power of commercial speed ovens to accelerate snack preparation and food regeneration, you’ll want to have one for your own kitchen. Any business that needs to serve a large number of guests in a short time will find a speed oven extremely useful.

Why are they so fast? Commercial speed ovens use a combination of microwaves and hot air to cook or regenerate food. Microwaves act directly on the water contained in the food, creating heat from within, while hot air acts on the surface of the food. The combination of these two elements shortens cooking times and makes regeneration times even quicker. Speed ovens’ main limitation is their lack of moisture management and self-cleaning functionality. This tends to confine the use of speed ovens to very simple cooking tasks that create minimal mess or for regenerating cooked food, sandwiches, and snacks.

Why choose a Unox commercial speed oven?

High performance meets incredible cook times in Unox commercial speed ovens. These unique professional kitchen tools use convection and microwaves, with select models even adding steam programs in a single compact unit. 

SPEED.Pro™ by Unox is the world's first speed oven that also has convection functionality. In bake mode, SPEED.Pro™’s large cooking chamber has 3 levels capable of cooking full loads of frozen or fresh bakery products. In speed mode, it can quickly regenerate up to 4 portions of ready meals and snacks. And certain Unox speed ovens also allow culinary professionals to use steam to perform even more elaborate cooking. 

SPEED-X™ is the world's first commercial speed oven capable of hyper-accelerated cooking by combining hot air, variable percentages of humidity (from 0 to 100%), and microwaves. It combines all the abilities of a commercial combi oven, including grilling, frying, dehydrating, browning, vacuum cooking, steam cooking, and more, with those of a rapid cook oven. Combining steam and microwave further accelerates cooking processes, to achieve unprecedented performance. 

Professionals in the bakery, catering, and restaurant industry no longer have to choose between speed and cooking quality. SPEED-X guarantees top-level performance in a compact instrument equipped with automatic washing functions. 

You can cook a fresh chicken with vegetables in 180 seconds and prepare a tasty grilled salmon in just 150 seconds. SPEED-X also offers unprecedented convenience as the first self-cleaning combi speed oven.

Increase flexibility with SPEED-X commercial rapid cook ovens.

Want more freedom to expand your menu options? SPEED-X commercial speed oven can function as a microwave, convection oven, combi oven, toaster, grill, pizza oven, or reheating equipment in one compact footprint. Cook snacks, make delicious gnocchi in 60 seconds or a portion of lasagna in 45 seconds. Just one SPEED-X oven can do it all.

SPEED-X commercial high speed ovens keep future needs in mind.

SPEED-X commercial speed oven can handle a wide range of cooking tasks, allowing smaller operations or those with tiny kitchens to unleash their menu creativity and free themselves from having to offer only one kind of fare. The ovens come with programmable settings so you can achieve higher output consistency for your expanding menu, and their high-volume capacity makes it possible to keep up with increased demand as your business grows.

Can a speed oven replace a regular oven in restaurants?

A speed oven can replace a regular oven for many tasks in restaurants, particularly when quick cooking or reheating is needed, and as a combi speed oven, SPEED-X is even more efficient and versatile than other speed ovens. But commercial combi ovens are still the best choice for large-scale baking, roasting, or when cooking in large quantities, as speed ovens typically have a smaller capacity and are designed for speed and versatility rather than high-volume production.