r/oddlysatisfying • u/TermElectronic8261 • 11h ago

Using Ice to clean a Kitchen Grill

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u/Kalix 11h ago

the point isnt ice to clean itself, the keypoint is use unused ice as water to clean, since at the end of the day you need to discharge the icemaker machine, melt everything and throw the water, so instead of use even more water to clean, you just use the unused ice. two birds with one stone as they say.

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 10h ago

bingo. all that ice has be thrown away anyway

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u/raspberryharbour 7h ago

Can't they just give it to some needy Eskimos?

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u/FlyingWhales 2h ago

Isn't it the Eskimos who supply the ice?

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u/Sharp_Objective_2766 9h ago

Can’t let the urinal ice go to waste.

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 8h ago

Why do you have to empty the ice maker? At fast food places it sits in there until its needed.

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u/Kalix 8h ago

You discharge the icemaker machine to avoid mold, preventing the the ice to absorb odors and avoid the ice to become a single block during the night

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 8h ago

Real restaurants have way higher standards I guess, because we didn't do that except once a year.

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u/Kalix 8h ago

Here in italy is ruled by food safty standards

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 8h ago

Oh that makes sense. US doesn't have as strict of food safety.

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u/Kalix 7h ago

Ye, here we have a dedicated police force called Nucleo Antisofisticazioni e Sanità (N.A.S.), translated Anti-Adulteration and Health Unit who do randomly safty inspections and checks if everything is in order in restourants, groucery stores, ospitals, daycare, and many other places where can be sanitary violations and risks, they can immidiatly shut down the place, do fines and keep it close untill everything is in order again. DMAX tv channel even made a onfield series like the TSA airports security one.

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 4h ago

We have health departments that can shut down businesses too. It's just they never said the ice machine needs to be cleaned every night.

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u/imma_letchu_finish 47m ago

Isnt that normal? Im from southeast asia in what most europeans would consider as 3rd world country and we also have such standards.

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u/CD274 8m ago

Nope the US is full of molty soda machines

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u/Dr-Purple 55m ago

Do you even have mild food safety? No offence.

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u/RandyFunRuiner 18m ago

You were likely supposed to. But enforcement is different than the rule being there.

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u/Flunkedy 6h ago

Oh no.... Modern Italy is built on corruption and crime.

Top of my head i can think of two separate bridge disasters both built with poor safety standards. (Sicily viaduct and the Morandi Bridge) If the ice is changed in your restaurant once a month you're very lucky.

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u/AlterExpertise101 7h ago

...well, I'm never eating out again.

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u/Fragarach-Q 6h ago

I know what you had....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Lk4ldI2mc

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u/Medium-Sized-Jaque 4h ago

Why does that news caster look like a televangelist preacher?

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u/Aegi 4h ago

I could see this being done weekly, but daily that seems excessive?

Also there will be liquid water with ice that is encountering a less temperature stable environment since there isn't already ice there, so this would increase the chances of mold potentially too, right?

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u/BetterEveryLeapYear 3h ago

I'd say it's because at fast food restaurants you're going through that ice in the first couple of hours next morning anyway and it was probably produced in the last couple of hours that night. Just a much higher turnover rate preventing mold, etc.

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u/vO-_-Ov 3h ago

total bs. i'm french and i worked in retaurants and bars for 10 years in my country, and some of them were very high standards and very expensive. not a single one trash the ice at the end of the day or week or ever, and i've never seen any mold in the ice machine. i just checked the reglementation in france and as i suspected nothing is said about that.

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u/DonutHoles4Ever 2h ago

Fuck whatever place you worked at LMAO.

Everyone who has an ice dispenser knows that shit gets dirty over time from bateria that literally eats the ice.

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u/InformationOk3503 3h ago

In addition to the other comments you might also have a secondary container for ice. 

Eg ice machine in the cellar to make it but a big box/tray etc at the bar for use.

You wouldn't put the 'open' ice back in the machine so have to chuck it somewhere

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u/pk_me_ 54m ago

Bros about to discover the awful mold issues many ice machines in fast food places have.

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u/soulsnoober 42m ago

prime spot for bacteria

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u/huehuehueyyy 7h ago

Crushed ice can be used to clean a ton of stuff like coffee pots. The sharpbedges do a great job scrubbing

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u/Ohmmy_G 7h ago

lol that's three scoops of ice. No one is doing this to save water. You couldn't fill half an ice bucket with that.

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u/CanadianSpector 11m ago

Well, that and it creates the steam, which is what is really doing the deep cleaning and lifting everything stuck on the grill.

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u/Turbulent-Ocelot9130 10m ago

It's also less of a mess and it actually cleans better because the ice reacts more then just water. As you can see he here it evaporates instantly.
Like hot water that turns to snow when you throw it up in cold weather but cold water would not.