Lava grill is not the most popular representative of technological professional equipment, and very vain.
Yes, the scope of its application is quite limited (compared to the same combi steamer), but the final result is able to please any skeptic. The heat that this grill gives is enough to serve a medium-sized banquet.
Principle of operation
Lava grill is able to provide you with excellent dishes "with a smoke", which you will cook in a normal kitchen, without taking away a special open room under the barbecue.
The principle of operation is as follows: at the heart of the lava grill is an ordinary ten, covered with a high side on three sides. Above the ten is a cooking grid. Everything is normal, right? But the most interesting is placed above the ten, but under the lattice - these are lava stones! That is, the heating element built into the lava grill heats the stones, which, in turn, bring the food located on the grill to readiness.
The special charm of the whole design is that the dishes in the cooking process emit juice that drips onto the lava, burns and returns to food back, only as a fragrant smoke. Stones can be washed. The only “but” that you need to pay attention to before buying a grill is that it smokes! Therefore, for comfortable work, it is necessary to take care of proper ventilation.
Lava Grill Abat
Russian manufacturers offer their customers this type of equipment. The most recommended model is the brand Abat GLK-40N. A small apparatus - 750 * 400 * 515mm, desktop version. It is especially good because it is not electric, but gas, which significantly saves energy costs. It is connected to both natural and liquefied gas. The average price is 35,000 rubles.
Equipment from Italy. Grill Apach
Apach (Italy) is known worldwide for its equipment for food service outlets. They have everything - and stoves, and ovens, and pasta cookers, and shock freezing cabinets.
Naturally, there is also a lava grill. They are represented by the following models (gas-powered):
Equipment from France. Lava Grill Roller Grill
For those cases when the operation of gas equipment is impossible for a number of reasons, there is equipment from the French Roller Grill brand. The RG 140 model works from 220V, has dimensions of 300 * 550 * 165mm and has an excellent feature - a variable arrangement of heating elements (about ten positions). This allows you to make finer settings of the equipment before work - for example, for fish and dense vegetables, the location should be different. This lava electric grill, in addition to its miniature size, also pleases with energy consumption - no more than 2.5 kW, which is very modest for heating equipment. The average price is 18,000 rubles. But you must understand that the prices of foreign equipment now directly depend on the exchange rate (which means that they can fluctuate significantly).