The kitchen at L'Osteria is probably the kitchen that many cooks dream about. The kitchen is filled with most of the toys, tools and appliances that make life easier and more enjoyable, along with plenty of space to move and operate.
There are two Rational Ovens which are amazing. These ovens are capable of roasting, braising and steaming. They can be used to proof dough for bread and then bake the bread on humidity controlled setting. The ovens come with probe thermometers that are attached to the internal computer that goes off when the cooked item has reacher the set internal temp. They are self cleaning and function in celsius, fahrenheit and 8 languages... This not an advertisement.
Then, naturally there is the fresh pasta machine, the pasta roller, two pasta wells, the two fry wells, the PACOJET(for ice creams and sorbets) an abundance of range space, and the wood fired grill. Rounding out the large amount of lowboy cooler space are two half sized coolers that can rapidly cool food, or blast freeze food, and have a soft semi-hard and solid settings.
In the other building, where there servants quarters used to be, there is now a large dry storage room, a walk in freezer, and 3 walk in coolers-one for meat, one for produce and one for dairy and salumi.
Accompanying the inside kitchen is an outdoor wood fired grill and wood fired oven for making pizzas. To say the least I am feeling a bit spoiled.
We are gearing up for a big weekend, but the weather has been really gloomy over the past couple of weeks. I'm starting to think that mother nature received notice that I left Rochester and moved to Perugia and decided to move the Rochester weather with me. Hopefully the sun will come out soon though. Ciao a presto!
