Food Plant & Commercial Kitchen Cleaning
No chemical residue of its own. No process water introduced into sensitive environments. A documented mechanical cleaning step — fit within your SSOP and HACCP plan is your QA team's call, not ours.
Surfaces, substrates, and equipment
- Processing lines and conveyors
- Ovens, fryers, and hood systems
- Walk-in cooler evaporator coils
- Bakery and packaging equipment
- Stainless tanks and vessels
Technical, not marketing
Food and beverage facilities run some of the tightest cleaning constraints we encounter. Water can create harborage risk in dry-clean zones. Chemical residues raise allergen and cross-contamination concerns. Abrasive media is a non-starter around food-contact surfaces. Dry ice blasting is a mechanical soil-removal step: CO₂ pellets sublimate back to gas, adding no process water and leaving no chemical residue of its own. It is not a sanitizer, and it does not replace your sanitation chemistry.
We work under your site's PPE and sanitation hierarchy, and we leave a documented record of every cleaning pass for your files. Whether dry ice blasting fits a given surface, schedule, or SSOP step is a determination your QA team and sanitarian make — we supply the mechanical clean and the documentation, not the sign-off.
For commercial kitchens, hood and oven cleaning is a recurring maintenance need. Dry ice blasting can clear hood interiors, ovens, fryers, and coil banks of baked-on residue without introducing water or handing kitchen staff a chemical degreaser — but hood/duct systems still need to meet your applicable fire-code cleaning requirements, and we coordinate with your hood-service vendor where that applies.
What working with us looks like
We walk the assets with you before quoting, then send a written scope so there is no ambiguity about what is and isn't included.
We run a test patch on the actual substrate before committing to the full job, so you can see the result before we proceed.
We work inside your maintenance window, subject to site access and ventilation requirements — not the other way around.
Every job closes with a photo record and a time log, so you have documentation on file for your own records.
More photographs from Summit Cryo jobs, plus illustrative examples of where the method is used, are on the gallery.
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How a food plant & commercial kitchen cleaning day runs
- A self-contained mobile rig — compressor, blaster, dry ice supply, hoses and PPE. We need parking and a route to the work area.
- A pre-start walk-through with your maintenance, safety or site lead to confirm the asset list, access and work window.
- Your lockout/tagout, permit and site rules apply. Isolation of equipment is decided by your people, not by us.
- Containment set around the work zone, with ventilation and CO₂ monitoring planned in for indoor or enclosed areas.
- Blast noise near the nozzle, so adjacent staff are briefed and the area is controlled while work is underway.
- Displaced contaminant is collected and handled per your site's waste protocol; the dry ice itself sublimates to CO₂ gas.
Photo logs and scope sheets
- Photo log — before, during and after photos of the assets and areas cleaned.
- Scope sheet — the assets, inclusions, exclusions and site requirements agreed before work begins.
- Notes on anything observed during the clean that your maintenance team may want to follow up on.
CO₂, noise, PPE and site controls
Dry ice sublimates to carbon dioxide, so ventilation and CO₂ monitoring are part of the scope for any indoor, enclosed or low-lying work area. Crews wear insulated gloves, eye and face protection and hearing protection, with respiratory protection when the contaminant calls for it.
Hazardous materials such as lead, asbestos, silica or biohazards are not disturbed without a licensed abatement contractor engaged.
CO₂ exposure and OSHA safety guideFood Plant & Commercial Kitchen Cleaning: questions buyers ask us
Where this work lands
Available across the Mountain West & Northern Plains
Build a Maintenance Plan
Send the asset, buildup, location and photos. We review the details and follow up with a written scope.