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Restaurant Delivery Bags Keep Food Oven Fresh
Ever wonder how a restaurant is able to cook your food fresh-to-order, then get it all the way to your home without it becoming cold? You’re probably familiar with the signature restaurant delivery bags most services use… but do you know how they work? Here’s a quick look at how these bags keep foods oven-fresh, ready to eat after delivery.
A look at Incredible Bags
Before we dive into the science behind restaurant delivery bags, it’s worth looking at a premium example. Incredible Bags offers several different types of restaurant delivery bags, designed to keep food hot, fresh and delicious—no matter what kind of food it is or how long the delivery journey may be. To see what goes into high-quality delivery bag construction, check out Incredible Bags’ industry-leading delivery bag design.
Bag construction matters
Restaurant delivery bags use a special heat-trapping construction to ensure food stays delicious all the way to your doorstep. This construction has three main parts:
An interior lining that’s usually heat reflective. For example, Incredible Bags uses a silver lining to reflect heat back into the bag so it can’t escape.
An exterior lining that helps vent excess moisture. This ensures the food inside the bag doesn’t become a soggy mess on its way to your doorstep!
A heat-sealed barrier that acts as an air gap, preventing radiant heat from escaping from inside the bag. It also prevents leaks, in the event of a spill.
Together, these three layers allow a restaurant delivery bag to retain heat, vent moisture and control heat loss. They mimic oven conditions (with adding heat) to keep food as fresh in the bag as it is when it comes out of the oven.
Temperature consistency matters
Temperature changes affect how food tastes. For example, take something like a pizza. Most commercial pizzas bake at about 500-650 degrees and, by the time they hit the table, are still about 250 degree, depending on how long they rest. Most people dig in at about 150 degrees. To enjoy pizza the same way at home as you do in the restaurant, the delivery process needs to mimic these temperature levels. If your pizza goes from a 500-degree oven and quickly cools to 100-degrees, it’s just not going to taste the same!
This is true for any food—pizza, chicken, pasta, Chinese food, tacos and more. Controlling the temperature after it’s done cooking is the key to guaranteeing a delicious experience at-home, after delivery.
The hidden secret of restaurant delivery bags
Want to know the biggest secret of restaurant delivery bags? They actually allow food to keep cooking! Because they trap heat, many foods will continue to gently cook on their way to your home. Meats are a great example of this. In a way, when a delivery person opens their bag to deliver your food, it’s almost as though it’s coming right out of the oven, fresh for you.
That’s how restaurant delivery bags keep food oven-fresh, as enjoyable to eat in your home as they are in the restaurant!
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