Calibrating Your Commercial Kitchen Equipment

Making sure that your commercial equipment is always running at it’s best is key to keeping your kitchen running well. It doesn’t matter how great your thermostat is, after a while, it’s going to need to be recalibrated. this is something that you can do on your own, or you can call in the experts to check the calibration and then fix it for you. Here are a few important reasons why you need to have your unit calibrated, and how Fast Fix LLC can help.


What Makes Calibration So Important?

The calibration of your equipment defines the accuracy and quality that is produced. Over time, the accuracy and “drift” especially when temperature and humidity are being measured. If you want to be confident in the results, you are going to have to have an ongoing system for maintaining the calibration of your equipment through its lifetime. It’s important to have reliable, accurate, and repeatable measurements coming from the equipment that you use regularly. When we calibrate your equipment, our goal is to minimize any uncertainty that you have in its measuring capabilities.

Why So Important in the Food Industry?

This practically explains itself, but in the food industry (catering or commercial kitchens), using a piece of equipment that has not been calibrated can be critical. It’s imperative that food temperature is measured correctly. If not, it could result in a food safety issue, a breach of HACCP and customers being ill, Environmental Health Officer notices of closure or even legal action.

A few degrees may not seem like much, but they can make a world of difference when cooking food. To the point that it could be easily undercooked or overcooked just by a few degree difference.

When Should You Calibrate Your Device?

There are a few reasons that you should have your piece of equipment calibrated.

  • According to the recommendation of the manufacturer
  • After any mechanical or electrical shock
  • Periodically (annually, quarterly, monthly)


One Call Does It All

We are a commercial restaurant maintenance and repair company serving St. Louis, Columbia, Jefferson City, Lake of the Ozarks, Sedalia, Western Illinois, and surrounding areas. Our technicians can repair everything in a commercial restaurant from the refrigerator to the exhaust vents. You can be sure that our technicians are professional in work and appearance, and we keep up with the ever-changing profession by sending our techs to schools when new technology and equipment evolve. We can repair hundreds of brand names for restaurants around central Missouri as well as Eastern Illinois. Please, visit our website to learn more about our business, or give us a call - 636-327-8349. One call really does it all.

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Fast Fix LLC. Restaurant Services
3362 State Road JJ
Kingdom City, MO 65262

Columbia: 573-544-0456
St. Louis: 636-327-8349

Location: St. Louis, MO, USA

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