How to clean a restaurant commercial pizza oven

Most restaurants use conveyor ovens or pizza conveyor ovens as they are great for cooking high quantities of food while requiring a minimal amount of cleaning and maintenance. Conveyor ovens are very popular but are often mislabeled as self-cleaning ovens or self cleaning pizza ovens. No matter how talented your staff is with stainless steel oven cleaner and a wire brush they can not match the results of a professional commercial pizza oven or conveyor belt cleaning company.

Although conveyor belt pizza ovens are vital for many restaurants they tend not to be a priority when it comes to cleaning. These pizza ovens, sometimes called deck ovens, need need a professional oven cleaner to properly remove foo debris from the conveyor belt resulting in a clean oven.

Food debris will foul the stainless steel conveyor belt and other deck oven parts causing problems such as a decrease in heating capability of oven, causing it to require more energy to bake food. Other problems include an increase in baking time, uneven cooking, problems with flavor of food due to leftover food particles and an increased chance of smoke and fire. A properly cleaned maintained pizza oven will provide consistent cooking.

A way to prevent these issues is to know how to clean and maintain your conveyor oven or hire a certified cleaning company to perform the commercial pizza oven and conveyor belt deck oven cleaning. There are many parts that require your attention such as the crumb trays, the conveyer belt, the impinge fingers, the draft diverters and its fans all of which must be perfectly cleaned with professional pizza oven cleaning chemicals and wire brush’s before being reassembled. 

If you are not careful with cleaning and maintaining your pizza oven, the chances of damages will increase and lead to costly repairs and even more costly lost revenue due to down time. Here we take a look at how you can keep your conveyor oven in top condition between professional commercial pizza oven cleaning. 

Cleaning methods

Here we will show you different methods you can use to clean your conveyer pizza oven. 

Daily Conveyor Belt Pizza Oven Cleaning Tips

1. You can use common restaurant cleaners and degreasers to wipe up anything that spills on the conveyor belt or other stainless steel parts of the commercial pizza oven. The strong nature of these cleaning materials helps to quickly break down grease and food debris before the conveyor belt becomes crusty. 

2. Mop around the conveyor oven daily and between shifts to provide a solid footing for BOH staff working around pizza ovens. This will minimize accidents leading to spills on stainless steel and conveyor belt parts.  

Using Commercial Pizza Oven Cleaner

1. Most jurisdictions require professional pizza oven cleaning at lease twice a year. High volume conveyor oven conveyors should be cleaned at least quarterly. A professional oven cleaning will often include the kitchen hood for an additional price. Maintaining a working relationship with our conveyor oven conveyor cleaner will add years of life to your conveyor belt and provide you with many cleaning tips. Professionals know what chemicals and equipment to use and will safely remove grease and food debris.  

2. Professional cleaners will clean all the parts of the oven simultaneously by using a dip tank for the parts of the oven, the belt, the fingers, racks, and oven cleaning tips. They will protect your restaurant with plastic and mop the floors before they leave.  

Cleaning tips

These tips given below are vital to follow if you want to increase the life span of your oven and have it cleaned properly without damage to yourself or the oven. 

1. Call a professional to get a clean oven. 

2. Remove spills and food debris daily.

3. Keep the area around and under the conveyor oven conveyor clean and the stainless steel polished.

4. Make a cleaning schedule and do not deviate from it. 

5. Hire a professional pizza oven cleaning company.

6. Get the kitchen hood and pizza oven cleaned at the same time to save money and time.