The kitchen is one of the biggest investments when opening a commercial restaurant in town. A commercial kitchen needs to have all the essential equipment to withstand busy restaurant use. Most restaurants are located in busy places in town but have only small kitchen spaces. The kitchen equipment needed for your commercial kitchen will depend on the space of the entity. It’s important that you plan every little detail about the kitchen before you sign a lease. This article provides information on the importance of a kitchen equipment checklist for your commercial kitchen.

The kitchen is the place where the menu of your restaurant comes to life. The food is prepared, cooked, and plated here. It is home to many types of kitchen equipment such as the freezer, dishwasher, various utensils, food ingredients, dishes, and other cooking equipment. Commercial kitchens have many staff members coming in and going out according to the shifts they work. That’s why a commercial kitchen needs to be organized well. A well organized commercial kitchen will reduce accidents and excess waste while saving time during the rush hours.

The kitchen is one of the most expensive components of a commercial restaurant. Purchasing new kitchen equipment for your commercial restaurant should be done with utmost care. They start depreciating in value as soon as they leave the showroom similar to a motor vehicle. Here is a general checklist of everything you need for your commercial kitchen.

. Oven
. Range
. Grill
. Walk-in cooler
. Reach-in cooler
. Deep fryer
. Freezer
. Refrigerator
. Soup pots
. Saute pans
. Pizza screens
. Baking sheets
. Saucepans
. Tongs
. Whisks
. Knives
. Plastic inserts for coolers
. Mixing bowls
. Steam table
. Appetizer plates
. Dessert plates
. Salad plates
. Cleaning buckets
. Cleaning rugs
. Rubber floor mats
. Fire extinguisher
. Hand soap and sanitizer dispensers

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The aforementioned article provides information on the importance of a kitchen equipment checklist for your commercial kitchen.

According to media reports Sunday, a team of Chinese scientists will be the first in the world to apply the revolutionary gene-editing technique known as Crispr on human subjects.

As reported in the Journal Nature, Led by Lu You, an oncologist at Sichuan University’s West China hospital in Chengdu, China, the team plan to start testing cells modified with Crispr on patients with lung cancer in August.

Crispr is a game-changer in bioscience; a groundbreaking technique which can find, cut out and replace specific parts of DNA using a specially programmed enzyme named Cas9. Its ramifications are next to endless, from changing the color of mouse fur to designing malaria-free mosquitoes and pest-resistant crops to correcting a wide swath of genetic diseases like sickle-cell anaemia in humans.

The concept of editing human DNA has often been controversial. In the UK, genetic modification in humans remains off-limits. Peter Mills, assistant director of the UK Nuffield Council on Bioethics, has told the Guardian of the worries it raises about playing god and “designer babies”.

A study on non-viable human embryos, also conducted in China, was called off after researchers found what they described as “serious obstacles” to using the method in a clinical setting.

And in March 2015 a group of researchers published an open letter in Nature saying that there were “grave concerns” about the ethical and safety implications of editing the “germ-line” in human genes – the genetic code which is passed on

The Sichuan University trial, it is important to note, does not edit the germ-line; its effects will not be hereditary.

What the researchers plan to do is enroll patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, Nature reported, and for whom other treatment options – including chemotherapy and radiotherapy – have failed.

They will then extract immune cells from the patients’ blood and use Crispr to add a new genetic sequence which will help the patient’s immune system target and destroy the cancer. The cells will then be re-introduced into the patients’ bloodstream.

China has been at the forefront of Crispr research. In 2014, researchers at Nanjing University reported that they had successfully engineered mutations in macaques – the first reported successful use of the technique in non-human primates.

Crispr was approved for human trials in the US by a research group backed by tech billionaire Sean Parker, but if it begins on schedule in August the Sichuan University study will beat them to the punch of being the first of its kind.