Another tasty cuber

[syndicated]

Ugh.... I've never worked on an ice machine before. Is that normal to see whatever it is that stuff is?

[joemach]

Ugh.... I've never worked on an ice machine before. Is that normal to see whatever it is that stuff is?

Yeh, pretty much.

[joemach]

These machines need to be professionally cleaned quarterly.

If they call "as needed" they pay Time & Material.

[syndicated]

And what is it that grows in there? Mould?

[hvac wiz 79]

These machines need to be professionally cleaned quarterly.

If they call "as needed" they pay Time & Material.

I agree. When accounts were willing to spend money on maintenance i was on top of many many machines, keeping them clean. That alone basically eliminated service calls other than the occasional hpr system that would fail.

[Toddbrewster]

I have been running into this same problem in several places lately, been "following" the health inspector around kind of, had several walk in coolers and food prep tables he wrote up and I have been getting several calls to come fix them so they can use the equipment. Scary thing is several of these calls had food prep tables and walk-ins which were not maintaining temp for 3 weeks or more before they got wrote up from the inspector. I ask all of these places have you had your ice machine serviced/cleaned lately?? They all are like oh I just cleaned it, I ask if they have the proper descaler/sanitizer to use and they look at me like I am nuts. I have looked in these ice machines and gagged, asked did the inspector check this, oh no he just checked temps on the stored food, and the order in which the food was stored in the cooler, raw meat on the bottom, etc. I have no clue how come he does not check ice machines, as it is I get a lot of work from him writing up these resturaunts, which I like, and usually once I am there I am asked to fix other things and get asked to come back when they have other problems, just dont see why ice machines are ignored??

[Warmaire]

There are enough of us in the industry to complain. Ice machines should be inspected and I bet they just have been ignored for so long they take it for granted that if it makes ice they must be clean, LOL
Im going to call and ask why and then I will post their response.
Good luck
Warmaire

[precision hvac]

and that isn't even a bad one. My favorite was a Florida resort with frogs in it.

I wanna see one with frogs.
Does the ice taste like chicken?

[AtticAce]

That's why I like flakers, hard to get slime in a flaker.