Innovations in ready meals production
WHO WE ARE
Easy2Cook is a cooktech company established in 2010.
E2C provides specialist skills and services to the Food and HoReCa industries.
Our services range from Auditing, Concept / Feasibility studies, Conceptual Layout Design, Production, Project Design & Specification and Validation Engineering of Equipment and Manufacturing Facilities.
Our team of consultants, development chefs, layout designers, food flavorists, project managers, and plant process designers work professionally at the highest levels for our corporate clients having delivered major capital projects in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakstan, Eastern Europe.
Projects can range from site consolidation or relocation, implementation and validation of production lines / specialist equipment, to the management and specification of new and existing manufacturing facilities.
Our core competence is the implementation of innovative production technologies for ready-to-eat meals, ready-to-cook products, frozen ready meals and TV-diners, shelf stable meals, kit meal solutions, functional foods, diet foods, healthy fast food, snacks, semi-ready meals, caterers meals.
We implement cost effective, cost reducing and resource saving food technologies into industrial kitchens, delivery production units, QSR central kitchen facilities, dark kitchens, inflight catering, food retail productions units, big F&B hotel facilities, drop-off caterers, industrial caterers, institutional caterers.
We implement most innovative cooking and food converting technologies:
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Controlled Atmosphere Packaging Kept Cold (CAPKOLD)
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MAP&freeze
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Rare Oxygen Packaging (R.O.P.)
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Pouch steaming
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Blast chilling
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Slow cooking
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Sous-vide
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Batch combi steaming
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Vacuum cooking
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Retorting
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Extended shelf live by light freezing for microbial load reduction
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Pasteurization
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Cook&Chill
Over 300 offline trainings for development chefs, production team leaders and food process technologists worldwide.
WHAT WE DO
If you need to optimize your food manufacturing facility, reduce production costs, implement online process planning, purchasing, save labour costs, increase productivity, reduce food cost, extend the shelf life of foods, develop new packaging solutions, implement IT-production solutions-please contact us.
If you are looking for building a new manufacturing facility, consolidate manufacturing sites, relocate, expand or integrate a new production line / equipment within your current manufacturing facilities then we can help you as well.
Our international experience, knowledge and skills have been applied to a wide spectrum of manufacturing products these being Fresh, Chilled, Frozen, Ambient and Baked products, using world wide best practices, standards and specifications.
Our key personnel are adept at translating conceptual ideas and business plan data into concise design brief requirements, which we can then develop into a Project Proposal and support the project implementation throughout its lifecycle.
To complement the operational element of Food Manufacturing we have developed an extensive understanding of business operations and the client’s position within the supply chain, enabling us to support and develop clear investment strategies with the client’s senior management teams.
We provide 3 types of services:
Optimization and cost effectiveness troubleshooting
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Food cost reduction, rising process efficiency
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Production&Labor costs reduction
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Recipe optimization
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Target cost engineering – reducing inflation rises
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Yield improvement
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Waste minimization
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Lean manufacturing implementation
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Six Sigma implementation
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Energy cost optimization
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Procurement optimization
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Total Cost of Ownership reduction
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Capacity management correction
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Equipment utilization planning
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Production cycle AI-planning
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Kanban system installation
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MRP (Material Requirements Planning) implementation
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Cold chain management
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OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) increasing
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Production KPI managing
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Bottleneck analysis
New product development (NPD+R&D)
• New products Innovation pipeline — Линейка инновационных продуктов
• Stage-Gate Process
• Proof of Concept (POC)
• Test kitchen / Pilot plant running
• Product prototyping
• Sensory evaluation, blind degustation
• Packaging and product values Benchmarking
• Product life cycle management (PLM)
• Value engineering
• Clean label development
• Line extensions
• Co-creation with customers activities
New food production innovations implementation
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CAPKOLD
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R.O.P
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Industrial sous-vide
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Slow Cooking
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Pressure Cooking
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Cook&serve
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Cook&chill
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Cook&Freeze
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Cook&MAP
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Cook&Pasteurize
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Cook&Retort
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Cook&vacuum seal
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Cook&Hold
