Infrared & Bulb Warmers
A restaurant food warmer lamp is essential for maintaining the perfect temperature of your dishes. At Rapids Wholesale, you’ll find a range of reliable food warmer lamps designed to keep your food hot and ready to serve. Explore options from trusted brands to suit your establishment’s needs.
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Hatco GRAH-48 Strip Heater / Food Warmer with Infinite Switch | 48"W, 120V$293.154X Holiday Bonus Points -
Hatco GRAH-60 Strip Heater / Food Warmer with Infinite Switch | 60"W, 120V$328.354X Holiday Bonus Points -
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What Are Heat Lamps for Food?
Heat lamps for food are a type of overhead warmer. Overhead warmers—as their name implies—are typically used to keep food in your restaurant or food-service establishment warm. However, they are best used for food that needs to be warmed for only a relatively short period of time.
Most food heat lamps feature toggle switches that automatically turn your food heat lamp on/off. Some built-in switches on certain models of food service heat lamps also automatically toggle from low to high heat. Obviously, these built-in automated functions will not allow you much control over the temperature of your restaurant heat lamp.
A Look at a Food Warmer Lamps
A heat lamp for food—which is also known as a restaurant food warmer—utilizes an infrared bulb, a heated metallic rod, or a heat panel for warming the food. A food heat lamp, specifically the traditional one (that uses a quartz or glass bulb), gives off light in addition to heat.
Both infrared food warmers and food warmer bulbs are perfect for restaurants, diners, cafés, and other food-service establishments where dishes are required to be kept warm until everything is ready to be served.
Important Factors to Consider before Purchasing a Restaurant Food Warmer
So what should you consider before purchasing a food warmer lamp? Be sure to check the wattage as well as the number of bulbs you want for your chosen food warmer lamps before forking over your money. In addition, you might want to determine what type of food heat lamps you prefer: freestanding, overhead with support, or ceiling.
So what's the difference? Freestanding food heat lamps are used on top of a counter and are perfect for outdoor restaurant banquets, buffets, and catering events because these types of lamps are easier to move, unlike hanging food heat lamps, which are ideally used in one place because they are more complicated to remove and attach.
In addition, it is important to consider the optimal distance of the food heat lamp to the food. The ideal distance is around twelve to sixteen inches. At this distance, enough heat from the food heat lamp still manages to reach the food, but the heat is not intense enough to dry it out or burn it.
Also, remember that the higher the wattage of your restaurant heat lamp, the more heat it will generate.
