As is known, cleanliness is essential and especially in those places where food is prepared. In the first place, because health is going to demand a minimum from us to leave our business open to the public, but above all so that the work environment is healthy.

Table of Contents

1. How to clean stainless steel:
2. How to clean the industrial oven:
3. How to clean the glass and dishwasher:
4. Cleaning tips for other surfaces in our business:

5. Machine maintenance: Cleaning complex areas 

      5.1 Choose your air compressor: Aspects to consider

However, with the frenetic activity of some industrial kitchens, cleaning some parts becomes quite complicated, besides spending a fortune on cleaning products. We will always advise our customers to use the products recommended by the manufacturers,  but sometimes it is cheaper to use the most common products that we have in all kitchens. In this link, we leave you a company that sells the best chemicals for hospitality cleaning. In this article we are going to explain some cleaning tricks to make this task much easier:

How to clean stainless steel:

Stainless steel is one of the most used materials in industrial kitchens in our country for reasons of durability and resistance. The first of the cleaning tricks that can be given, and this applies to everything else, is that you do not let the remains of food or other substances accumulate for a long time. If you use pots or other steel utensils, cleaning them and not leaving them for later or extracting the dirt will be much more complicated. Now some products that work well with stainless steel:

• Liquid vaseline: Gives very good results and also prevents rust from appearing on the surface of the material.
• Bicarbonate: Baking soda is a harmless product that leaves stainless steel shiny and easily removes the “copper” aspect of all these elements that are used daily in our kitchens. Just by applying a damp sponge and a little bicarbonate, you will immediately appreciate very good results.
• Lemon: Apply a few drops of lemon essence to the surface and rinse with water, the result is also quite good.
• Vinegar: Oddly enough, this element is very effective for cleaning stainless steel, leaving it shiny and shiny. In addition, this common product is used to clean many other parts of the kitchen.

How to clean the industrial oven:

These elements are intensively used in bars and restaurants and industrial cleaning are essential. It is not necessary that they be cleaned when their use is finished, but a thorough cleaning would be necessary on a regular basis to guarantee their proper functioning and conservation. To clean the oven (one that does not have pyrolysis, of course…) manually, remove the racks and clean them in a sink with soapy water. Let them soak for a while with hot water and a splash of dishwashing liquid.

To clean the inside of the oven, get a spray bottle of liquid. Fill it with water and add about four tablespoons of baking soda, if the oven is very dirty you can increase the amount of baking soda, even if the mixture is pasty. Spread the solution throughout the cold oven and let the solution rest for an hour, if there is still dirt, repeat the process until it comes off and you can remove it with a cloth. Finally, to give it a good finish you can use vinegar and water solution.

How to clean the glass and dishwasher:

First, a somewhat logical recommendation but not everyone does. Before putting the utensils that we have to wash in our glass and dishwasher, remove the largest food debris as these can accumulate inside the appliance and not be drained properly. For cleaning the dishwasher, there are many industrial products that provide optimal results, but one way to make it shine on the inside is by adding half a glass of undiluted vinegar to the dishwasher or glass washer tray. Do a complete washing cycle (without dishes, obviously) and you see that the result is surprising.

Cleaning tips for other surfaces in our business:

Using an adequate proportion of vinegar dissolved in the water we will obtain quite good results. This proportion is 3 parts of water and one part of white vinegar. If the floor is dirty, we can apply the vinegar directly on the stains and let it act for a while.

For other surfaces that we have in our industrial kitchens, we can use hydrogen peroxide to clean countertops or tables. It is also a good idea to use lemon essence and make combinations of these products to find ways to clean your kitchen.

Machine maintenance: Cleaning complex areas

In any bar or restaurant, there are machines that should be regularly maintained as they are used intensively. This will allow them to last longer and have better performance in their useful life. Dishwashers, bottle racks, refrigerated cabinets, and almost all cold machines have a condenser that fills with dust over time and it is convenient to clean it. As we have said before, this will ensure that their performance does not decrease and that they continue to work optimally.

For this task, in SCS Group Integrated Services, we recommend the purchase of an air compressor whose main mission is to expel jets of air at high speed to facilitate the cleaning of dust accumulated in the compressors of our machines. We recommend that this maintenance be done once every six months. If you decide to get a compressor, you must consider a series of points that we detail below.

Choose your air compressor: Aspects to consider

• Tank

  They equipped most compressors with a tank of different sizes that will condition their use. And is, the larger the tank capacity, the more compressed air flow it can supply. For example, for the use of these devices with tools it is highly advisable to adjust the size of the tank according to the maximum air consumption. If you are going to use it to paint, there are models that can work directly without a deposit.

• The flow

Cubic meters of air per minute): the power of your compressor will be clearly determined by the flow (or the amount of air you will need per minute). To estimate the compressed air needs you need, for example, you can consider the sum of the individual needs of each machine as the maximum theoretical need (as if they were all running at the same time). From there, we advise you to reduce the order by 30%. So that the flow does not lack, for every 100 liters of compressed air per minute, one horsepower will be required.

• Power

  Air compressors receive power in two different ways. The first and most common is electrical, a connection to a 220 V outlet. The other is through gasoline, widely used to work in outdoor areas where there are no nearby plugs, normally this is not usually the case. Since we usually find the machines outside our catering establishments.

• Compressors

  Usually emit a lot of noise, and if you are going to work with them continuously they end up being annoying. For this reason, we recommend you choose silent compressor models, that is, with acoustic protection for your motor, sealing of the different parts, legs that hold it anti-vibration, resting on rubber pads, and so forth And try to always support it on a flat surface (to help the noiseless design of the device itself). We leave you this link where you can buy good models of silent compressors.