Tips and FAQ

Our tabbouleh is a ready product that can be served hot or cold. It is ‘ready to heat’, but not ‘ready to eat’. Due to the presence of a lot of vegetables in combination with couscous and some fruit, the product must always be heated first to the core: at that moment there is a zero risk of a listeria contamination.

Before putting these heating instructions on the packaging, we extensively carried out internal tests. It always works with these instructions.

Your experience with an exploded pouch is exceptional, but it cannot be ruled out completely. And for this there are 2 possible causes, namely the heating time or the sample of the product itself:

• every microwave oven is different (wattages vary, a new vs. an older microwave with the same wattage will have differences, different brands with the same wattage will still have differences, etc.). That is why we always advise users of our portion packs to test in the beginning the heating time of a portion pack with their own microwave oven.
• a second cause could be the state of the product itself, more specifically with regard to the question whether the pasta always remained 100% frozen. For example, if you store the pasta for several months in a freezer that often opens and closes, the strong temperature fluctuations can lead to freezer burn on the products. This will cause paste sticking together. If you want to store the pasta for a longer period of time, it is best to keep it in a top-opening freezer or freezing room. This way you will avoid freezer burn, and the result will always be optimal.

That difference is minimal! The steam bags are produced in such a way that the result is very close to the pasta heated in hot water. Because you don't add water, the pasta will be a little bit drier, but you won't notice anything with a sauce on top.

Definitely! Among our range of portion packs you can see a lot of pasta packed individually packed in a steam pouches. You can heat them in the microwave from frozen to serve a tasty fresh pasta in a few minutes.

Pasta not individually packaged ( not in a steam pouch), could in principle also be perfectly heated in the microwave. Although we still prefer the quality of the steam pouches or else, reheating the pasta in hot (95° C) slightly salted water.

Despite the fact that it is always better to have a hood, there is no problem if you don't have it in your food truck. Because our pasta is already 100% precooked, the water does not need to really boil to heat the pasta. Regulate your water at 95° C and you will have much less evaporation.

In principle, our pasta cups are not designed to heat up frozen pasta and cold sauce. But they can resist max. 2 minutes at 750 Watt. It’s therefore no problem to have a cup filled with pasta and sauce in the afternoon and heat it up in the microwave in the evening.

Definitely! They are made of paper and coated with a PLA film.

That's a very good question! A question to which we know the answer, but the answer depends on several factors. It is best to discuss this with one of our representatives. Please contact info@dlisfood.com and we will put you in touch with the representative of your region. He/she will help you to set up your business perfectly for the launch of a pasta concept.