Gas shawarma machines: tips for choosing and reviews of manufacturers

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Shawarma, as a fast food dish, is very popular not only in seaside resort towns. It has gained popularity wherever you can eat inexpensively and practically on the go, without wasting time sitting in a cafe. In any city, on busy streets, especially in student areas, you can find outlets that serve shawarma.

What is shawarma?

Shawarma (shawarma) is a dish famous in the Middle East that is eaten with the hands. As a filling, small pieces of fried meat and fresh vegetables are placed in an Arabic flatbread, which are seasoned with sauces and various spices. Lamb, beef or poultry meat is used for this.

In domestic open spaces, shawarma is prepared from chicken or pork, grated cheese, onions, carrots and other fresh or canned vegetables (according to the season and the seller’s imagination) with the addition of tomato sauce or mayonnaise in thin Armenian pita bread. Lavash is a very thin unleavened flatbread made from wheat flour. It is soft, so it is very convenient to wrap stuffing in it.

There are shawarma and vegetarian, in which the main ingredient is notmeat rather than fried potatoes.

Shawarma machine is used to fry meat.

It is very interesting to watch how the seller cuts off thin pieces of meat with a sharp knife and immediately wraps it together with vegetable salad in a flat cake - in the full sense of "hot, hot".

Shawarma machine

The grill, specially designed for roasting meat, is a vertically located skewer, on which thinly sliced meat tenderloin is strung. This skewer rotates around its axis near the flameless heating element, the meat is fried from the outer edge, and its thin fried layer is constantly cut off into the pan.

In general, a shawarma maker is a stainless steel cabinet, heating elements, reflectors, a pan in which fat is collected, and removable skewers with clamps.

The main difference is the heat source for the heaters.

Shawarma gas machines are most commonly found on the streets in mobile outlets. They do not need to be connected to electrical networks, that is, they work autonomously - gas is supplied from a cylinder.

The electric shawarma machine is most often installed in stationary trade pavilions when there is no network connection problem. Infrared radiation, which is formed by special tubular heating elements, allows you to cook meat much faster at a higher temperature.

Advantages of gas appliances

Gas shawarma machines are equipped with a cylinder of liquefied gas, that is, much cheaper fuel than electricity. In addition, gas appliances warm up much faster than electric ones. Such a machine can be up and running in minutes.

There are models that are completely autonomous, in which only gas is used to maintain the fire in the burners. As a rule, they are cheap, but they are able to work with 10 kg of meat on a skewer that is mechanically rotated, and the seller himself can monitor the uniform roasting and the formation of a crisp on the meat.

The rotation of the knife allows the meat to be fried evenly, but the intensity of the burner ensures the speed of cooking. One of the advantages of a gas appliance is the ability to easily adjust the intensity of the burner, as in a home gas stove, by turning the gas cock.

Disadvantages of gas appliances

Gas shawarma machines cook meat more slowly.

If the design of the device has an electric drive for rotating the skewer, then it will still have to be connected to the mains. In addition, gas in cylinders has a very unpleasant feature - it runs out at the most inopportune moment, which means it is advisable to always have a spare cylinder and carefully monitor fuel consumption.

Attention is required both for the valves on the cylinder and the pipes supplying gas to the burners.

The tightness of the joints and the absence of mechanicaldamage to protect against possible gas leakage. The burner flame may go out for various reasons, but most modern models of gas equipment are equipped with a gas control system, which in this case shuts off the gas supply and does not leak.

The main disadvantage of using gas is explosion and fire hazard. Because of this, gas appliances are banned from use in many major cities.

Main technical characteristics of gas appliances

The main indicator by which gas shawarma machines are selected is the load, that is, the maximum amount of meat that can be strung on one skewer.

As a rule, the device is equipped with one skewer, but there are devices with two skewers. Such devices allow you to simultaneously fry different types of meat, increasing the range of products offered, which is important for the active operation of the outlet.

The devices differ in the way the spit rotates. The electric drive is convenient because it does not attract the attention of the seller during cooking, and the mechanical spit - control of the cooking process.

Ease of service and cleaning are very important in the process of cooking any food, including shawarma, especially in mobile street outlets. Therefore, a very important characteristic of the device is the material of the case. Food-grade stainless steel and glass-ceramic, in addition to being resistant to corrosion and mechanical damage, are easy to clean from contamination.

Devices of different designsalso have different dimensions. The dimensions of the device are very important for small stalls with limited work space.

Price categories of gas appliances

The price of a gas shawarma machine (electric, however, too) depends on the number of burners. The variation in prices for devices depends on the choice of manufacturer.

There are devices of European, Chinese and Russian manufacturers on the market. The most expensive are European, the cheapest are Chinese. High-quality and reliable devices from Europe practically do not differ from Russian ones in terms of technical characteristics. Chinese analogues cannot boast of high reliability and quality of warranty service, even if it exists.

Russian products are manufactured at certified enterprises, with a good combination of price and quality and a guarantee period of up to ten years.

Today, the price of a gas shawarma machine can vary from nine thousand for the simplest models with a small load to more than one hundred and eighty thousand rubles per hundred kg of meat.

The Turkish manufacturer Pimak is known on the Russian market. His gas appliances cost about 15,000 rubles for one burner, 19,000 rubles for two burners, and 25,000 rubles for three.

No less famous Russian Grill-Master supplies products, the cost of which for one burner is about 11 thousand rubles, for two - in the range from 18 to 28 thousand rubles, for three - from 24 to 36 thousand rubles.

Today, if desired, you can find gas machines for mobile shawarma trade forany outlet and by the amount of meat, and by the dimensions of the device, and by cost.