Stoddart FSE News

Reading product brochures for other Equipment brands can be really eye-opening. Unfortunately they may often be totally misleading.

One just passed over my desk which suggested their brand of Italian equipment had the "most efficient burners". It also included a table saying how long it took to boil a litre of water on their range compared to the "Competition". It makes no mention of how these tests were performed (the variables are potentially massive) or who the "Competiition" are.

We were amazed to see that brochure suggested the unnamed "Competition" supposedly took 6 mins and 50 secs to boil 1 litre of water on a 37mJ burner. So we at Stoddart decided to do a quick test on the 37 mJ burner of our Elco 900 range.

3 minutes and 35 seconds* later we had water at a measured temperature of 100 degrees C. Not only was this 3 minutes 15 seconds faster than the performance of the "Competition" in the brochure, it was 1 minute and 5 seconds faster than the published data for the publisher's own 900 series.

We will do a similar test on our Elco 700hp range and keep you posted. Interestingly, according to the opposition brochure the 19mJ burner of the "Competition's" equipment was allegedly 1 minute 45 seconds faster than their 37mJ burner. Seem a bit odd?

*Stoddart tests performed on standard Elco 900 using Propane gas at our Sunnybank Hills, Brisbane showroom. 1 litre of tap water used at starting temperature of 24.3 deg C. Test performed in a room temperature 300mm diameter thick based frying pan.