Angie Hardwick

Writer

Angie Hardwick is a Content Writer at Cooksmill with over 20 years of experience in the hospitality and catering industry. Her perspective is shaped by both frontline hospitality work and years spent working closely with catering equipment and suppliers.

She began her career in restaurants as a waitress and bartender, gaining first-hand experience of the pace and pressures of hospitality. After pivoting to working in IT for some years, Angie returned to the catering sector as a Website Manager for a catering equipment company, combining technical knowledge with deep industry familiarity.

This mix of practical hospitality experience and long-term involvement in catering gives Angie a grounded understanding of what professionals need from the tools they use every day. Since joining Cooksmill, Angie has played a key role in shaping the website and the information customers rely on.

Angie focuses on making sure product information is clear, accurate, and genuinely useful, helping customers navigate equipment choices with confidence and clarity. Her background in both catering and IT enable her to translate complex product specs into straightforward advice that addresses the everyday needs of a busy kitchen.

Funkin Cocktails

As we are now in the run-up to Christmas (yes I know it is still the end of November whilst I write this) we thought we would share with you some of our favourite recipes for our favourite part of Christmas…. Cocktails! We have recently started stocking (and drinking) Funkin Cocktails. We had a fantastic day in-store the other week with ...

New Biodegradable Range

Vegware Biodegradable Product Range For those who haven’t heard about it yet, we are now stocking Vegware products! For those who don’t know too much about Vegware let us explain to you just how great they are! Vegware provide catering disposables that are all green products. Their products are made from plants as opposed to ...

HACCP Explained

For those that are yet to come across HACCP, or ‘Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point’, it is a formal science-based system to help maximise hygiene, and therefore, safety in the food industry. This is tested within routine Food Standards Agency inspections to make sure that you have a HACCP system in place and that it is being ...

A rational explanation

This week we have been lucky enough to have two demo sessions from a Rational development chef on their new SelfCookingCentre 5Senses. Rational were keen to show our customers and staff how this exciting piece of kit works, and we can see why! Rational are known for their innovative designs, created to make cooking in a commercial kitchen ...

Chefsware - A Checkered History

When we imagine chefs clothing we think of a gleaming white suit, the favoured choice of many professionals, however in the 1980s the uniform began to evolve to meet the needs of modern chef’s.... The traditional chef whites that are worn today can be dated back over 400 years, but why do chefs wear white? In the 1800s chef Marie-Antoine ...

Gustav Emil Ern Knives & Their History

Knives are unarguably a chefs most important tool, no matter what cuisine is being served up. Professional knives have definitely come a long way since the caveman days of hacking at food with a sharpened piece of rock. The chef knife that we know today has formed from a diverse range of influences, from Germany, China and Japan it has ...

World Pasta Day

Saturday 25th October celebrates one of the worlds most loved dishes; pasta. We know there’s a day to celebrate almost everything (even squirrels) but World Pasta Day means that we have an excuse to eat mountains of Italian food without feeling guilty! Pasta is a staple in most diets, with countries around the world serving up their ...

Bonkers About Baking

The UK has gone baking mad. In the past 12 months the number of people obsessing over how to avoid a dreaded soggy bottom has rocketed. Baking is now a popular hobby amongst people of all ages. We have officially gone bonkers for baking! With a plethora of new baking recipe books and constant new programmes being created about the best ...

So Who Are Cooksmill?

First and foremost, thank you for visiting the Cooksmill website. It has been a long road up to this point but now is the part we've all been excited about - serving businesses up and down the UK with top quality catering equipment. Whether you are setting up a new business or ordering supplies for a company older than yourself, we think we will ...
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