Boiling, pan-frying, deep-frying, low-temperature cooking, pressure cooking, sous-vide. In the future, you can do them all with just one cooking system: the iVario. Save space in your kitchen while equipping it with even more funcitons. Perfect for restaurants, schools, hospitals, retirement homes, company catering, and more.
iVario Pro | Tilt skillet, kettle, and pressure cooker.
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RATIONAL's multifunctional iVario cooking system gives the food service industry an all-rounder. All models replace industrial deep fryers, stoves, and professional frying pans; the larger models also replace tilt skillets and kettles.
The multifunctional cooking system.
The food service industry is currently facing major challenges:
- Lack of space
- Rising costs
- Skilled labor shortages
- Increasing expectations
The iVario helps you face these challenges head-on and make your kitchen even more efficient. It saves space and money by rolling multiple conventional cooking systems – such as commercial deep-fat fryers, tilting fryers, pots and pans, stoves, kettles and pressure cookers – into a single appliance. Its intuitive controls compensate for skilled staff shortages as well. The iVario ensures excellent food quality at all times, even with new or inexperienced employees. Even better, it works up to four times faster* than conventional kitchen technology, using up to 40% less energy*.
RATIONAL is synonymous with top quality; the iVario replaces high-end kitchen equipment without cutting corners.
Fifty years of success and experience speak for themselves. The iVario also helps users transition to the networked, centrally managed kitchens of tomorrow, making it a long-term solution for the digital future.
The user-friendly display helps kitchens work quickly and efficiently. Personalize the display to adapt the iVario to your processes and menu. You can also network cooking systems in order to configure and manage them from wherever you are.
The Game Changer in professional kitchens – whether you're using it as a tilting fryer, a deep-fryer, a stove, a frying pan, or a kettle.
How you benefit.
Optimize your professional kitchen with the iVario Pro and count on:
- Consistently high food quality.
- Perfect results.
- Precise temperature regulation.
- No burning, no boiling over.
- Time, money, space, and energy savings.
- Large quantities of food in no time.
- Short preheating times.
- Efficient cleaning.
- Intuitive controls.
- Investment peace of mind.
Try the iVario out for yourself.
Discover the four models of the iVario
– the multifunctional cooking system for professional kitchens.
The iVario Pro: Simply powerful.
Short cooking times, excellent quality.
Pan-frying.
100 servings of fried rice in 20 minutes.
Braising.
1,200 servings of Bolognese sauce in 90 minutes.
Boiling.
400 servings of vegetable soup in 35 minutes.
Deep-frying.
26 lb of battered vegetables in 19 minutes.
Boiling.
33 lb of pasta in 22 minutes.
Pressure cooking.
155 lb of braised meat in 120 minutes.
Blanching.
40 lb of broccoli in 23 minutes.
Delicate boiling.
800 servings of rice pudding in 70 minutes.
It‘ll be delicious.
The iVario offers nearly endless cooking options.
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Easy operation for delicious results.
The iVario Pro's control center.
The iVario's intuitive operating concept makes work fast, efficient, and easy. What about rarely-used applications or settings? Users can find them with the search assistant. Without having to stand around fiddling with the display or the manual.
The iVario's home screen offers a clearly organized selection of cooking programs that can be started with just a tap. Sensors in the pan base detect load quantities, portion sizes, and product condition, and adjust the cooking process automatically. No matter what you are preparing, it’s simple and automatic. If manual input is required, the iVario notifies you.
Discover the available functions on the
iVario Pro.
Frequently asked questions.
A tilting skillet is a professional kitchen appliance typically used in commercial kitchens and catering operations. It uses contact heat and can boil, pan-fry, braise, or stew food. Commercial kitchens often use them when preparing food in large quantities. The unit can be tilted to transfer food efficiently into containers.
The words tilting pan, tilting skillet (see above), and tilting fryer are often used synonymously. As with the tilting skillet, the tilting pan has a large surface that can be used for pan-frying. Large commercial and industrial kitchens often use tilting pans to pan-fry, braise, or boil large quantities of food. The integrated tilting function make it easier to remove the food and clean the pan.
As the name suggests, a tilting pan consists of a heatable cooking surface that can often be operated using either electricity or gas. The temperature can be set with particular precision, which makes tilting pans a good choice for a variety of cooking applications. Once cooking is finished, a mechanism inside the appliance lets users tilt the pan in order to remove the food and then clean the pan.
Tilting skillets or pans are particularly worthwhile investments for large commercial kitchens, company canteens or food service operations producing large quantities at once. When properly equipped, such appliances allow highly efficient preparation of even very large quantities, saving time and energy. Their tilting function also makes work processes easier. All in all, they are very useful for a wide range of applications.
Which tilting pan is the best depends on the user's individual needs, such as capacity, type of energy (electric or gas), and desired additional functions. High-quality models like RATIONAL's iVario have a highly efficient design and an energy-saving heating system that allows uniquely precise temperature regulation to ensure very quick food preparation. And nothing sticks or scorches, ensuring the best possible results. Practically minded users will appreciate how easy it is to clean. RATIONAL's iVario is undoubtedly one of the best tilting frying pans on the market, and it's capable of a lot more than that. This makes the iVario an ideal cooking system for professional commercial and industrial kitchens. It can be found in many catering operations, company and school canteens, healthcare operations like hospitals and nursing homes, and hotels and restaurants .
Tilting pans are ideal for cooking many dishes such as meat, seafood, vegetables, stews, and sauces. It is suitable for searing , as well as for slow braising and boiling. Tilting pans are also a highly efficient solution for pan-frying large quantities of foods like scrambled eggs or rice dishes. The RATIONAL iVario is also particularly suitable for preparing dairy-based dishes. Its special high-performance iVarioBoost heating system ensures that nothing ever scorches, and the cooking system notifies you when the food is ready. No monitoring required.
