If you have visited ICE recently you may noticed our brand-new ovens and stoves on the 12th floor recreational classrooms. If you’ve participated in a culinary class or cooking event in this space, you’ve used one of the top pieces of culinary equipment available on the market today. The ranges and ovens were custom made for ICE by BlueStar, a pioneer and manufacturer of high-quality, reliable, custom cooking equipment. ICE is proud to announce that BlueStar is the exclusive provider of stoves and ovens for its 12^th floor recreational kitchen classrooms.

The new BlueStar equipment at ICE includes seven 30-inch four-burner ranges and three 36-inch six-burner cooktops, all at 22,000 BTUs, as well as two double-wall ovens. Each BlueStar range is hand-crafted in Reading, Pennsylvania. ICE Director of Education Richard Simpson said, “The quality and durability of the BlueStar line is amazing. The ranges and ovens are ideal for our wide variety of classes and we are proud to showcase them in our kitchens.”

Independent studies have shown that BlueStar outperforms leading high-performance stoves when tested for boiling, simmering, deep frying, stir-frying and searing.   All BlueStar ranges, ovens and ventilation hoods are available in 190 color options (check out the photos of our new blue ovens!). More…

Last night, ICE took a primetime starring role in an episode of what has been a tumultuous season of the Celebrity Apprentice on NBC. For this challenge, the remaining celebrities were tasked with creating a live cooking demonstration for Omaha Steaks, in front of executives for the company as well as a live audience at ICE. Ivanka Trump tasked them, “The cooking demonstrations will take place tomorrow in front of a live studio audience at the prestigious Institute of Culinary Education.”

As they prepped for the demonstration, each team worked with a Chef Instructor from ICE — the women with Chef Instructor James Briscione and the men with Chef Instructor Mike Schwartz — perfecting their menus and techniques for the demonstration. The men struggled under project leader Gary Busey’s seemingly unfocused leadership style, while on the woman’s team, former Playmate of the Year Hope Dworaczyk took on her first challenge as project manager. After a day of prep, the teams came to ICE and worked in our professional kitchens to give their demonstrations. Both presentations were certainly memorable — it’s not often that stars like Meat Loaf and La Toya Jackson cook a steak dinner in ICE’s kitchens! Who was sent home? Watch the video to find out! More…