Talk:Gastronorm sizes

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I tried to look up Gastronorm sizes on Wikipedia and there was nothing, so I created this page after I found the sizes on a catering supplier web site. I do not know how widely these sizes are used, or where they originated. Man with two legs 09:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Trying to find a citation on Google reveals not much. There are plenty of hits refering to catering equipment available in these sizes and at least one military specification mentioning them, but no clues so far as to which organisation defined them. I am disinclined to use a randomly chosen catering supply site as a citation even if it does mention how to convert gastronorm to millimetres. The only hit I have seen on Google that is neither a catering supplier nor a contract specification refers to this Wikipedia article. Man with two legs 09:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I found this http://web.freepint.com/forum/bar/read.php?i=26897&PHPSESSID=643ee60cf6d1d72d9d660d94515128f4 which seems authoritative. Gastronorm is an EU standard: EN 631. Stevewclark 16:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Well done! I have looked up BS EN 631 and found these descriptions:

BS EN 631-1:1993 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs. Catering containers. Specification for dimensions of containers

BS EN 631-2:1999 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs. Catering containers. Dimensions of accessories and supports

BS EN 631-2:1995 Materials and articles in contact with foodstuffs. Catering containers. Dimensions of accessories and supports

Man with two legs 15:21, 7 October 2007 (UTC)