How do restaurants serve warm prime ribs and still keep it medium rare?

[Joe Anshien]

I found this really interesting and had never heard of an Alto Shaam oven.

How do restaurants serve warm prime ribs and still keep it medium rare?

Answer (1 of 7): I was chef for several years at a restaurant that featured prime rib. We would sell roughly 100 to 150 portions of prime rib every night depending on the day of the week. Even at the end of the night we would have it available as medium rare or whatever was required. That was ove...

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[Colin]

Interesting, thanks for sharing Joe.

 

[JKalchik]

The local tavern has at least one Alto Shaam, and uses the daylights out of them. The kitchen folks just refer to them as the Altos.

 

[JimK]

Cool. Basically a sous vide oven.

 

[J Hasselberger]

Seems like the Alto is an oven plus a Cambro. Franklin Barbecue uses Cambros set to 140° to hold their cooked meats.

Jeff

 

[Brad Olson]

This is why those of us who want rare prime rib go to dinner early. Or cook it at home.