How to use your blast chiller

Foster's BCT range comes equipped with our simple and intuitive touchpad controller - making complex operations a breeze.

Learn how to identify your blast chiller, how to prepare to use your blast chiller, how to select the right programme for your food type and what happens at the end of a blast chiller cycle.

How to identify your blast chiller

This handy guide will tell you how to identify your blast chiller

Preparing to use your blast chiller

Learn what the pre-chill function does and how to prepare your food so that it’s ready to transfer into your blast chiller.

For more information on how blast chilling protects food here.

Selecting the right blast chiller programme

Learn which programme is best for the food types you are chilling. There are four programmes to choose from: soft chill, hard chill, hard max and freeze (or shock freeze). We also explain the difference between probe chill and timed chill.

What happens at the end of a blast chiller cycle

This video guides you through the end of the blast chiller cycle, from learning about the hold function, how to mute an alarm and how and why to use the defrost function after every use.

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