What foods are typically cooked in a steam-jacketed kettle?
Soups, stews and sauces are very popular candidates for steam-jacketed kettles. In Asian restaurants, kettles are used for different stocks and soups as well as rice dishes, moo shoo and hot ginger sauce. In Mexican restaurants, chili gravies, onions, and veggie dishes such as Pinto and refried beans are common. Home-cooking and soul-food restaurants like kettles for turnip greens, gumbo, black-eyed peas, butter beans, chili, chicken and dumplings, and jambalaya. Some bagel houses actually boil their bagels in steam-jacketed kettles before baking them.
