Sanitary Stainless Steel Fittings: How We Help Make Safer Pizza

Who’s hungry? Pizza is a go-to food item that seems to be popular around the world, but the United States in particular seems to go crazy for pizza. Indeed, approximately three billion pizzas are sold in the U.S. each year, and America consumes approximately 251,770,000 pounds of the cheesy goodness every year - that’s quite a lot of cheese, tomato sauce and dough!

Food Safety Is Our Priority At Chemseal

Given how popular a food like pizza is, it’s important that the pizza is completely safe to eat so that no one gets food poisoning or contracts another related illness because something went wrong during the process. We’re here to talk about something known as automated washing that helps assure the complete cleaning and sanitation of food processing lines, containers, and more.

Food safety starts way before products like cheese and dough make their way out to pizza shops, and for our fellow pizza lovers out there, Chemseal is proud to say that our sanitary stainless steel fittings play a role in making sure that your pizza is safe to eat. How, you ask? We’ll get to that in more detail in today’s blog post. Just remember that your food and beverage manufacturing operation can benefit from our sanitary stainless steel fittings, tri clamp fittings, DIN fittings, and other types of integral components that we provide. Learn more about Chemseal here to see what we can do for your fluid process business.

The Problem With Hand Washing

In hand washing operations (including power spraying), there is a lot of room for human error. Indeed, workers may not achieve the proper water temperature that’s required to sanitize containers - even after hand washing, food remnants and cleaning agent residue can remain in the seams and corners of containers put back into use. By automating the washing process, food processors are assured that containers are thoroughly and properly cleaned and sanitized every single time.

Manual hand washing is not only subject to more human error, but it can also be more costly to a business. By integrating an automated washing system, companies can save on wasted labor and floor space while also improving on overall production. Instead of manually washing containers with a hose or a pressure washer, thereby introducing risk into the process, more companies are installing systems that automatically meet their specific washing and sanitizing needs. This also adds to the volume capacity of a fluid process operation, and positively impacts product quality.

Papa John’s And Dough Trays

You can’t make good pizza without dough, right? The world’s third-largest pizza chain, Papa John’s, sends thousands of trays of fresh dough from the company’s distribution commissaries to their locations all over the world. Well, fresh dough is a bit more challenging to handle than frozen dough, as it is much stickier and leaves residue in the trays. Therefore, every tray must be thoroughly washed and completely dried before being reloaded with fresh dough for further distribution.

To help meet this stringent sanitation requirement, a Dallas Papa John’s commissary installed an automated two-lane, four-tank washing system in order to clean and sanitize 2,000 dough trays in a single hour. The rapid and consistent washing and drying of these dough trays allows this pizza giant to automatically meet their volume requirements while ensuring consistent cleanliness for their product. Hooray for good dough that makes good pizza!

Laura Chenel’s Chevre

In Northern California, this award-winning goat cheese processing company - a delicious ingredient for pizzas - installed a customized washer to clean and sanitize its process buggies, a vital component of cheese processing. These process buggies are used to transfer cheese from the mixer to the packaging department at their Sonoma County plant. While the buggies handle millions of pounds of cheese annually, the cheese is processed in smaller batches of roughly 400 pounds at a time. Thus, these buggies are an integral part of the process stream, needing to be cleaned and made ready for the next cycle.

Prior to their new facility, workers cleaned the buggies with spray hoses in an open area of the plant. With a new automated washing system, it saved the goat cheese company labor for spray washing and does a much better cleaning job than a human with a spray hose.

From Our Stainless Steel Parts To Your Oven

You wouldn’t typically think about the pizza-making process before the ingredients hit your local pizza shop or the grocery store, but proper food safety all starts with the original manufacturing process. At Chemseal, we love integral solutions as much as we love pizza, and we’re proud to deliver the right stainless steel tube fittings and other stainless sanitary fittings to food service industries who need reliable and sanitary stainless steel components. Any questions about how we can help your own food service processing company? Contact Chemseal today and learn more. 

Oct 1st 2017 Chemseal / Veronica Gonzalez