Hot Off the Range:The Milestone Distributors Blog

Viking Designer Series on Fox's New Series MasterChef

On Fox tonight: The series premiere of MasterChef, Gordon Ramsay’s much anticipated new series!  The show brings together 50 of the country's best amateur home cooks to compete in front of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, winemaker and Mario Batali restaurant partner Joe Bastianich and Chicago chef Graham Elliot. 

Over the course of eight episodes, contestants will cook on Viking Designer Series products. The show will then move to Wednesdays on August 18^th and will expand to two hours as the final 14 contestants compete for $250,000 and the chance to publish their own cookbook.

 

The link below will take you to the MasterChef series trailer on the Fox website.  Also below is a photo of Viking Designer ranges on the MasterChef set.

  

MasterChef Trailer:

http://www.fox.com/masterchef/?src=home_page_whats_on_tonight

 
 

 

Grand Hall Crossray Cooking Tips & Techniques Videos

As the summer grilling season has been heating up, lots of folks have inquired about demonstrations of Crossray burner systems in action or requested test drives of Crossray grilling products.

Here's the next best thing to an in-person test drive: a set of videos I have pulled together including a 360 degree video of the T Grill and 6 brief demonstrations with simple how to cook instructions.

Also notice the News 8 clip on the benefits (for the environment and for taste) of using Crossray burner systems!

TGRILL – 360 VIDEO
CROSSRAY EXPLANATION ON CHANNEL 8 NEWS
CROSSRAY – How to cook ROTISSERIE CHICKEN
CROSSRAY – How to cook STEAK
CROSSRAY – How to cook PORK ROTISSERIE
CROSSRAY – How to cook VEGETABLES
CROSSRAY – How to cook PIZZA
CROSSRAY – How to cook CHICKEN BREAST

CBSMoneyWatch Feature: Viking Range One of 10 Great Products Still Made in the USA

In honor of the July 4th Holiday, CBSMoneyWatch.com – the personal finance website for CBS News – has written a feature story for its homepage called “Made in USA: 10 Great Products Still Made Here.”

Viking Range Corporation is one of these featured companies!

Please click the link below to read the opening story, then click through the brief thumbnail sketches of each company to see the Viking profile along with the many other highly admired companies featured including, Herman Miller chairs, Harley-Davidson, and Tesla Motors.

Click here to read the opening story

Click here to see the Viking Range profiled-

ASKO Dishwasher Rebate Extended Through 2010

 

 
ASKO $100 rebate program on the D5223XXL and D5122XXL has been extended through 2010!

Click the link below to download the PDF rebate form...

Download DW Rebate Form 7 through 12.10.pdf (192.3K)

Viking Mention in the Wall Street Journal

Check out this really neat mention of Viking in a sports column from the Wall Street Journal about the blown umpire call that erased the perfect game.

Click here to read the column.

Winners of the ROHL faucet giveaway!

Congrats to these lucky folks who won ROHL faucets!

Lombardia winner:

Mary Higgins, Atlanta, GA

Vincent Winner:

Loretta Bruce, Oklahoma City, OK

Pull-Out Winner:

Natalie Miller, Elk Grove, CA

Chef Sharon Van Meter visits the White House today!

Chef Sharon Van Meter W.M.C.S. , Milestone Culinary Arts Center Executive Director, will be in Washington DC today to kick off a new component of Michelle Obama's childhood obesity initiative, called Chefs Move to Schools. She will join hundreds of other chefs who will gather at the White House to launch a national adopt-a-school program highlighting healthy and delicious school options for school meals. The initiative will draw both the brightest stars of the culinary universe -- Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio and Cat Cora -- and the unknown soldiers who staff corporate kitchens, food banks and culinary schools.

Look for her in her green Milestone Culinary Arts Center jacket on TV today! 

Click here to read an article about the new program.

ROHL's IFF Wins DPHA Innovative Product of the Year Award

Each year at its conference, DPHA announces the Innovative Product of the Year Awards. These awards honor the creme de la creme of products released the previous year that are at the forefront of design and innovation in upscale plumbing and hardware. This year, the DPHA called in media and marketing luminaries to judge award nominees. A few of those luminaries hail from publications such as Kitchen & Bath Design News, Hospitality Design, The Architect's Newspaper and Dwell. ROHL's Integrated Faucet Filtration Solution (IFF) was named Innovative Product of the Year for the Plumbing Fixtures category!

Win a Viking 30" Outdoor Grill

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ROHL Receives NKBA President's Award