Our second donation to the Children's Food Trust!

As you may already know, we support the Children's Food Trust by giving them a donation for every item we sell. You may recall we handed over our first cheque back in January, which was for a whopping £8000. 

Well. We've done it again! Donation number two - a cheque for £6000 - was presented to Rob Rees, Chairman of the Children's Food Trust, a few days ago by our Sales and Marketing Director Lee Vines.

Lee said: “Over recent months we’ve cleared out a backlog of hire kit that has been replaced or upgraded as a result of stock bought by us to facilitate large scale events. We’ve made this surplus stock available to caterers at great prices – and made a donation for every piece of kit sold – so everyone wins.”

Rob said: “We’re delighted PKL has supported us with another donation. The Trust’s work, in encouraging more children, schools and parents around the country to have a positive experience with food is hugely important. This will help us reach more schools and more children in 2013.”

The Children's Food Trust is a national charity which aims to get children eating better, and its work includes developing healthy school menus and cooking skills with children.

A huge thank you to all our lovely customers for helping make this donation possible! We're continuing to put donations in the pot ready for the next cheque now, so keep buying your equipment from us!

Rice is Nice

Here at Mid West, we love food. A lot. So we thought we'd do a quick blog post in honour of one of our favourite types of food - Asian. From sweet and sour chicken to a good old tikka masala, we love it all. No Asian restaurant would be complete without that classic, versatile accompaniment to pretty much any dish though: rice!

If you cook lots of rice, then check out these beauties which we currently have in stock! They are in great condition and have only been used a few times too!

Rice Washer
These fab Fujimak rice washers can wash up to 100kg of rice per hour. With a compact design and hygienic stainless steel contruction, these rice washers are absolutely ideal for Asian or world cuisine restaurants and takeaways. As well as being great at washing rice, they are also an absolute bargain price! Nice.

Rice Cooker
Once your rice is nice and clean, you'll need one of these Fujimak triple deck rice cookers! Each deck comes complete with a Teflon coated rice cooking pot on a nifty slide-out mechanism for easy removal. These fancy-pantsy rice cookers automatically detect the steam temperature too, allowing the electric controller to know exactly when to time the cooking from. They will make sure your rice is cooked in a trice! Nice.