The Best Industrial Brushes For Your Commercial Kitchen
Commercial kitchens are hives of activity. They can become messy if they’re not well-maintained. Clean commercial kitchen environments are essential to your employees’ safety. So, it helps to get the right cleaning tools to maintain cleanliness and proper organization in your fast-paced kitchen.
Invest in high-quality industrial brushes that suit your kitchen processes for maximum operational efficiency. It ensures employees don’t waste valuable time cleaning up before and after food preparation.
Commercial kitchen brushes are used for general cleaning and food preparation. Typical kitchen brushes have durable plastic or metal handles and synthetic or metal bristles. Depending on the brush’s cleaning purpose, you can also choose soft or hard bristles.
Here, we’ve compiled a helpful list of recommended industrial brushes for your commercial kitchen.
Commercial Kitchen Industrial Brushes: Our Recommendations Industrial Brushes For Cleaning Food
World Health Organisation data shows approximately 600 million people worldwide fall ill after consuming contaminated food each year.
Food contamination usually occurs due to accidental mishandling along the food distribution chain.
Commercial kitchens are an essential distribution point for contamination and ensuring safe food consumption. Food safety is important in a commercial kitchen, especially since food prepared here goes directly to consumers.
When preparing raw meat, you will usually leave small food pieces and fluids behind on the work surface. Raw meat and poultry could contain bacteria like Salmonella and E. Coli. These are transmitted through liquids and pieces of raw meat left behind.
If not cleaned properly, such bacteria could spread to other surfaces used for preparing cooked food.
You should ash your food preparation areas and tools regularly to prevent bacterial accumulation. It reduces the risk of contamination and ensures your commercial kitchen consistently maintains high food safety standards.
Use small iron brushes to clean your cutting boards and countertops with detergent and water.
This brush has an ergonomic handle for a better grip during cleaning and scrubbing. The durable and flexible nylon bristles can remove small particles from deep grooves in your cutting boards. It ensures that no raw food remnants or liquids are left behind.
You’ll also usually handle raw and unwashed fruits and vegetables in commercial kitchens. Fresh fruits and vegetables may contain remaining pesticides and dirt that you’ll need to wash away.
Use custom-made small handheld iron cleaning brushes to clean the fruit surfaces and vegetable leaves.
Flexible nylon bristles are waterproof, so you can scrub and wash food under running water to remove contaminants.
You can choose soft, flagged brush bristles to clean delicate fruits and vegetables thoroughly. Flagged bristles have frayed monofilament ends and can remove fine particles from hard-to-reach parts of leafy vegetables or fruit. The softer bristles ensure you don’t bruise or damage the delicate outer skin and flesh of the food during washing.
Yew Lee Pacific does not currently offer specialized vegetable-washing brushes in our catalog. However, on quantity and material availability, we can produce them through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) if required.
To prevent contamination, keep your food clean by separating raw and cooked food. Store them in different areas to avoid the risk of mixing them up.
Also, remember to separate the brushes used for cleaning raw meat and vegetables. Store and wash your brushes separately to prevent cross-contamination during food preparation.
Industrial Brushes For Cleaning Kitchen Appliances
Kitchen appliances frequently accumulate grime, stains, and food scraps left behind during food preparation and cooking. You must keep these appliances clean to prevent bacteria and mold from growing.
Twist brushes help clean the insides of bottles, cups, tubes, and pipes. Twist brushes contain a strong metal core and flexible fill material for all-rounded cleaning. These brushes remove food and liquids left inside narrow crevices and small containers.
Depending on your needs, you can buy customized twist brush heads in round or conical shapes from the manufacturer. You can also order customized extended handle lengths to clean longer tubes, bottles, and pipes.
Remember to regularly remove dried or sticky food remnants from appliances like cake mixers, waffle makers, and stovetops. It keeps the workstation clean and prevents the cooking equipment from malfunctioning. You can use a metal bristle handle brush or iron brush for this.
Some food stains are much harder to remove, so you’ll need scouring brushes to get rid of them. We recommend using a metal bristle brush to scrub away stubborn stains like burn marks, dried grease, and food dyes.
An iron or handle brush helps clean grime and scorch marks from metal surfaces. Use it to scour grubby pots, pans, baking trays, and metal racks.
You can pick a bristle type from Yew Lee Pacific’s range of metal materials. Choose steel bristles for more abrasive and rigorous cleaning or bronze for gentler scrubbing of delicate and smooth metal surfaces.
You can refer to the previous blog post about brush materials for more information on the different bristle types.
Industrial Brushes To Keep The Floor Clean
It’s essential to keep your kitchen floor clean to prevent the build-up of bacteria and grease. Spills on the kitchen floor also pose a safety hazard to employees who may accidentally slip and fall.
It’s best to regularly sweep and wash your kitchen floor at the start or end of the day to maintain cleanliness and hygiene.
Brooms sweep up dust, dirt, and fallen food pieces. They’re often used to clean up dry food matter before washing or wiping.
We recommend using a fan broom for sweeping tiled or uneven surfaces. The wide fan shape and slim, flexible bristles help remove fine powders and dust from the floor.
A fan broom is ideal for sweeping dry flour particles, sugar, salt, and crumbs. You can select flagged or unflagged bristles for different cleaning intensities.
A big broom is excellent for sweeping large floor areas. Large commercial kitchens can be tiring to clean, so a big broom is ideal for daily sweeping.
Big brooms have a denser and larger brush fill that’s suitable for sweeping up dry food waste like vegetable peels. The brush manufacturer offers hard and soft bristles to suit different floor surfaces.
For kitchen floor washing, you’ll need sturdy, waterproof scrub brushes. The brush manufacturer makes unique Pacific Brooms for scrubbing and washing.
These floor scrub brushes have stiffer bristles made of synthetic polymers that don’t absorb much water. They won’t bend out of shape from moisture damage and will last longer even after heavy use.
The synthetic polymer bristles are also heat and chemical-proof, so you can use them with most commercial detergents and disinfectants.
The Pacific Broom has flagged and hard-crimped bristle variants to withstand vigorous scrubbing. You can also choose soft-flagged bristles to wash indoor areas.
The brush fill is durable and thick enough to withstand heavy cleaning in wet environments. It’s the ideal brush type for washing your commercial kitchen.
Industrial Brushes For General Washing And Dusting
To clean the general kitchen area, brush away food remnants and wipe up stains. Prevent spills and dried food from accumulating in your kitchen and storage areas because these encourage bacterial growth.
It’s easier to sweep away food particles from the area before washing or wiping it.
Use an iron brush and handheld dustpan to clean the insides of refrigerators, appliances, cabinets, and food storage areas. Nylon bristles are waterproof, flexible, and versatile enough for general brushing.
You can also use iron brushes for washing utensils and kitchen equipment like knives, spatulas, and sieves. They help reach narrow grooves that scrubbing sponges can’t clean properly.
For hygiene purposes use different brushes to clean your kitchen appliances and utensils.
Your commercial kitchen may also have a food storage area for dry food. You’ll also need to clean this room by regularly sweeping and dusting it.
Consider a round-headed cobweb brush to clean cobwebs from ceiling corners and light fixtures. Some variants of the cobweb brush also have extendable rod handles to reach higher ceilings.
Yew Lee Pacific is looking into producing more brush types for commercial kitchen use. Some examples are basting brushes, vegetable washing brushes, and specialized interior strip brushes for installation on cooking equipment.
We consider the quantity, demand, and availability of OEM manufacturers when producing new brush types. Contact us with your brush requirements, and we’d be more than happy to discuss a solution with you!