Whether you’re just offering tea and biscuits, or hosting larger-scale catered events, every kitchen needs to have appropriate heat and hot water safety measures in place.
Why it matters
With numerous different groups making use of your kitchen, it’s vital that it’s a safe environment for everyone. From fitting appropriate ventilation, fire doors, and hot surface indicators, to providing guidance on how to use hobs, ovens and boiling water, for your own peace of mind it’s good to consider and mitigate every potential heat-related risk.
Here are a few ways that a Steelplan Kitchen can help make sure you’re operating safely.
A safe layout
How and where everything is positioned in your kitchen will determine how safe the environment is to work in. The Steelplan Kitchens team will work with you to design a kitchen with well-placed appliances, appropriate ventilation, and hot surfaces and hobs that are easy to manage.
Fit an instant water boiler
Apart from being quicker and easier to use - particularly when you’re catering for large groups - instant water boilers are also much safer than kettles. Rather than having to fill, boil and carry multiple appliances, an instant boiler provides one immediate source of boiling water, so you can make tea and coffee, or access hot water for cooking, instantly. An urn is also an option, but it’s important to make sure it’s stored safely and positioned in a safe place when in use.
Install shutters
It’s not just cooking appliances that can make a kitchen dangerous; people can sometimes have that effect too! An overcrowded kitchen can lead to avoidable accidents, no matter how well-intentioned the impromptu volunteers are, so consider installing shutters to help keep people at bay. Whether you need a hatch to pass food and drink through, or full length doors to manage people coming in and out, we can advise on the best solution to make sure your kitchen runs safely and smoothly.
Damage free surfaces
The great thing about a semi-commercial build kitchen is that it can withstand the inevitable mess you can expect from catering for multiple groups of people. The hardwearing surfaces in a Steelplan Kitchen are strong and durable and built to cope with hot pans and liquid spills, so you can concentrate on the cooking without worrying too much about the cleaning afterwards.
To discuss how Steelplan Kitchens can help you design a kitchen to meet your church’s needs, call 0844 809 9186.
The inherent strength of metal and a combination of the benefits listed on this page mean that a steel Kitchen will far exceed the life expectancy of a standard wooden carcass kitchens in semi-commercial environments.
The polyester powder coated steel is impervious to water. No more swollen chipboard or rotting MDF.
The metal is fire resistant and the powder coat finish formulated so that no toxic fumes are emitted in the case of fire.
Unlike wooden/chipboard cabinets the Steelplan Kitchen carcass does not contain any material that may sustain, harbour or encourage insects or bacteria.
The powder coated finish means that the units can be kept to an extremely high level of cleanliness and hygiene at all times. Essential when used in health locations.
It looks great! The hidden steel backbone is dressed up with a choice of doors to produce whatever look and feel you want.
Steelplan Kitchens provide metal kitchens and steel kitchens that offer strength, rigidity, quality, style and durability
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