How do you save energy in your restaurant?

Choose an ENERGY STAR® certified commercial oven!

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Catering has always been one of the sectors that records the highest energy consumption. Commercial ovens, sous vide, food-processors, hoods, stoves, fryers, dishwashers, and blast chillers are numerous tools used in daily activities which at the end of the month account for 40% of a restaurant’s bills (if not more!). However, these consumptions not only affect commercial activities, but also have an important impact from an environmental point of view, affecting CO2 emissions.

One of the solutions to reduce consumption and adopt a sustainable attitude towards the planet, can be to replace equipment in a professional kitchen using more advanced and efficient tools that allow you to reduce waste and ensure real savings. 

To this end, working with an ENERGY STAR® certified professional oven can really prove to be the right choice to achieve real savings in terms of consumption.

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How much less energy does a commercial ENERGY STAR® combi oven consume compared to other kitchen equipment?

At UNOX, the most important thing for us is to provide all the tools and information necessary for a professional to make a decision based on real and concrete data. Only in this way can they ensure they are making the right choice for their business and rely on a lasting investment. This is why we don’t just provide information, but go further by testing our ovens to prove their effectiveness.The result? As reported in the following paragraph taken from our ESG Report, when comparing the energy consumption of a Unox ENERGY STAR® combi oven, such as our CHEFTOP MIND.Maps™ 10 trays, with other professional equipment, the energy savings percentages are significant. For instance, when compared to an electric professional grill, our ENERGY STAR® electric combi oven can save up to 52.2% of kWh, based on an average consumption of 50 kg of food per day over a year.


Energy efficiency and excellent cooking performance: there are over 50 commercial UNOX ovens certified by ENERGY STAR®!


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UNOX ENERGY STAR® certified commercial ovens: why are they so efficient and sustainable?

For over 30 years, Unox has been investing in research in order to constantly improve the performance of its ovens while reducing the energy impact. Every day, our team of engineers, designers, chemists, physicists and software developers study new ways to further improve the energy performance of our ovens by working on 4 fundamental pillars:
  • insulation solutions
  • engine efficiency
  • the design of the oven
  • the intelligence of the oven

The insulation solutions

Identifying efficient solutions allows you to maintain the set temperature inside the cooking chamber, minimizing the dispersion of heat to the outside. All of our certified ovens, combination and convection, are in fact designed and manufactured with the use of excellent insulating materials to ensure the best possible thermal insulation, reduce waste of heat, while ensuring the best cooking performance.

The efficiency of the engine

The engine is the beating heart of every professional oven. Every day our research and development team faces the challenge of making the motors of UNOX ovens more and more efficient in order to reduce energy waste as much as possible, while maintaining excellent cooking performance. In fact, the UNOX professional ovens are equipped with motors designed to heat up as little as possible during each cooking and reduce energy dispersion.

The design of the oven

At UNOX we devote a lot of importance to the design and planning phases of all our ovens, always studying innovative ways to make every single component more efficient to minimize any waste of energy. The intelligent design of the oven, together with the efficiency of the motor and the insulation solutions, allows you to effectively reduce any heat loss, while reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions. 

The intelligence of the oven

The intelligent technologies of the UNOX professional ovens allow you to have maximum control over water and energy consumption, ensuring consistently uniform cooking performance. An example of this is our CLIMALUX technology, a technology, which, thanks to the use of advanced controlled algorithms, allows you to measure the level of humidity in the chamber and adjust the steam input or moisture extraction accordingly, reducing unnecessary energy and water waste. The production of steam is an activity that requires a high amount of energy, so it becomes more essential than ever to have a technology available which, perceiving the amount of humidity present in the chamber (which includes the humidity contained in the food itself), blocks the production of steam when the cooking chamber is saturated.But that’s not all. To help you achieve maximum energy efficiency with minimal effort, our intelligent commercial ovens are equipped with technology called SMART.Energy. This system makes energy savings automatic and provides useful suggestions to avoid waste. For example, in moments when even a few watts can be saved, SMART.
Energy automatically activates energy-saving mode. By constantly monitoring the load conditions, it can detect when the oven is running empty and activate standby mode, reducing the chamber temperature and fan speed to prevent energy waste. And to save water? Our most intelligent ovens are equipped with automatic washing systems with recirculation technology, capable of accurately measuring the level of dirt and using only the minimum amount of water and detergent needed for cleaning.

 

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Are you considering purchasing a new oven but unsure which one to choose? Use our Consumption Calculator to find out which model is the most efficient for your business!

 
4th March 2025

UNOX : Commercial Kitchen Equipment

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