AMT Gastronorm 2/4 - 2cm deep

A: Long and narrow. It runs the full length of a 1/1 at roughly a third of the width, so two sit side by side down the length of a full pan space. It is not the same shape as a 1/2.

A: No, and this is the most common ordering error in fractional GN. Both fill half a 1/1 space, but a 1/2 is short and wide while a 2/4 is long and narrow. They are not interchangeable in a counter.

A: The cut-outs in their existing counter or hot well. Fractional pans have to match the openings that are already there, and no amount of capacity maths fixes a pan that does not drop in.

A: Anywhere items are laid in a row: garnishes, toppings, portioned proteins, service lines. It gives the longest possible reach across a counter for the space it uses.

A: Because it suits laying items out rather than holding volume. Shallow keeps everything visible and reachable, which is what a service line wants.

A: Anything with liquid. At 2cm there is very little wall, and a narrow pan carried at an angle spills readily. Sauce belongs in the 5.5cm version.

A: It heats faster and more evenly than a wide pan, because no part of it is far from an edge. That helps in an oven and matters more in a hot well.

A: Almost always a fill-in. Customers buy 1/1 and 1/2 first and come to 2/4 once they are laying out a specific station.

A: Against the customer's counter layout rather than as a standalone item. It is worth asking for a photograph of the well before confirming a fractional order.

A: Handles. The A25316G adds them, which matters when the pan is lifted in and out of a hot well repeatedly rather than left in place.