Tips for Keeping Your Commercial Sink Sparkling Clean

April 8, 2018

Your commercial kitchen, just like your personal kitchen, must be kept clean at all times.

With all of the cooking and food processing you do, it is inevitable that your sink gets messy. Cleaning up your commercial kitchen is incomplete without proper cleaning of your sink.

A clean stainless steel sink adds to the overall beauty of your commercial kitchen, giving it an extra sparkle. More than that, it adds to the lifespan of the sink itself. Consider a few cleaning and maintenance tips for keeping your commercial sink clean.

Scrub daily

Everything from food stains to soap deposits and water spots accumulate if you don’t keep cleaning them regularly. Given how frequently your commercial kitchen sink is used, it is important that you scrub your sink regularly (read: daily). At the end of business hours each day, apply a dishwashing liquid formula or a non-abrasive cleaner to a bowl of warm water and scrub gently with a sponge.

Remove stains with baking soda

Despite the resistant material it is made of, your commercial kitchen sink will occasionally get stains that just don’t seem to go away with regular cleaning formulas. Should you notice any such stains, mix baking soda with water until you achieve a consistency similar to that of toothpaste. Using a non-abrasive scrubbing pad, scrub off stains and rinse thoroughly.

Make a paste with borax and lemon juice

Another wonderful stain-removing agent is lemon juice. Formulate a paste containing lemon juice and powdered borax. Run water into the basin and scrub with a sponge. Rinse with running water afterwards. Lemon as a cleansing agent will be useful regardless of the material your commercial kitchen sink is made of.

Bleach to shine

A clean and shiny porcelain adds to the general aesthetics of your commercial kitchen, making it look both clean and attractive. Line your enamel with paper towels and soak through with bleach. Leave the paper towels for 30 minutes and then remove. Rinse off with water when done. Note that bleach fades colors, so this technique is best for white or steel-colored porcelains.

Add olive oil for extra shine

Want to give your sink that extra sparkle? Olive oil will do the trick. When the sink in your commercial kitchen has been cleaned and dried thoroughly, give it some extra shine by adding a few drops of olive oil to a lint-free cloth. Buff the sink and its fixtures with this cloth until they begin to sparkle.

Quick Tips

Rinse sink surfaces with warm water after each day’s use.

Wash with a mild abrasive, non-scratching powder such as baking soda, if a deeper cleaning is needed.

Mix a few teaspoons of lemon juice with tartar into a paste to tackle rusts and stains.

Dab sink surfaces dry with clean towel so that water spots do not form on the surface.

Keep the drains of your commercial kitchen sink clean and clog free by pouring in a solution of salt (1 cup), baking soda (1 cup), cream tartar (1/4 cup) and boiling water down the drain once every week.

Try as much as possible to keep hair, food chunks, grease, and other forms of debris away from your drains.

If in view of your customers, the cleanliness of your commercial kitchen will go a long way to attract customers and keep them around. Should your sink appear messy, you may turn potential keepers away from your commercial kitchen. Clean daily, scheduling deep cleaning periodically, and practice our simple maintenance tips to keep your commercial kitchen sink sparkling, hygienic, attractive and clog-free. 

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