Welcome to our How To guides! Here you’ll find step-by-step tips, tutorials, and expert advice to help you get the most out of your foodservice and beverage equipment. Whether you’re looking to improve kitchen efficiency, maintain your equipment, or discover best practices for your operation, our guides make it easy to learn and implement solutions that work.
The race itself may only last two minutes, but the excitement and party atmosphere builds all day 'til the moment twenty horses Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs in Kentucky.
This little green appetizer may only take 15 minutes to make, but the guests at the St. Patrick's day festivities will remember it always. These little crab bites are absurdly easy to make and so delicious.
We know you are busy running a successful business – that’s why the team at Rapids Wholesale wants to make ordering as fast and painless as possible. There are several different ways to make ordering a breeze, especially if you tend to order the same items again and again.
Start with the invites. How many people are coming to your party? How much beer do you need? Here at Rapids Wholesale, we actually have an app for calculating how much beer you need based on the length of your party and the number of guests.The Rapids Keg-O-Meter determines the size and number of kegs you need for a large party.
Most restaurants are short on storage space. It's an age-old problem and comes with only one solution: making a plan and sticking to it.
January 4th is National Trivia Day. The term “trivia” has come to refer to obscure and arcane bits of dry knowledge, as well as nostalgic remembrances of pop culture. The first trivia contests were held on college campuses and known as "quiz bowls," testing knowledge of cultural references and useless information. These types of contest became more mainstream with the introduction of the game Trivial Pursuit, which allowed us to challenge each other in the comfort of our own living rooms. While these boardgame versions of Trivial Pursuit may have peaked in the 1980's, trivia games in general were just getting started. Computers, gaming systems, and tabletop tablets brought trivia games into the 21st century, making trivia contests a fun and popular part of bar and restaurant culture.
One of the questions often put to food blogs during the holidays revolves around how to serve all of your food hot when the turkey takes up most of the oven space. Here are some tricks and tips to help.
When your business has been flooded, damaged in a hurricane, or severely affected by water through some other means, your first concern as you begin cleanup should be the presence of mold. Mold can not only irreparably damage your building and equipment, it can also affect your health. This danger, and the effort it takes to clean up the mold, increases the longer the mold is left to grow. Now, if you find that the mold growth is extreme, your best bet is to call a professional, as they will be able to handle the mold effectively and without endangering others in the building. If the mold growth is still contained, or hasn’t started, there are several steps you can take to eliminate the spores.
Brewing delicious grain beer relies on the pH level in your mash, as this directly impacts the flavor of your beer. pH is the measurement of how acidic or alkaline a solution is. It is measured on a scale from 0-14 with 7 being a neutral reading. A pH Reading below 7 would be considered “acidic”, and a pH reading above 7 would be “basic”.
The solution to mold in cold brew coffee is so simple! It works for a home cold brew machine as well as a commercial Toddy Brew system. Sanitize it! After you brew, immediately dump the grounds into your compost container and then fill your upper cold brew chamber with water almost to the top. Mix in the proper amount of sanitation as directed by your sanitizer. Make certain the filter is still in place between the chambers. That little screen filter is the perfect spot for mold spores to produce and hide.
