What’s on the Cleaning Equipment poster
A 7-row table: Item · Dishwasher? · Note.
What is safe where.
- Stainless steel — Yes — Fine
- Cast iron — NO — Strips seasoning, causes rust
- Non-stick — Not advised — Shortens coating life
- Wooden boards & spoons — NO — Cracks and warps
- Sharp knives — NO — Dulls edges, damages handles
- Aluminium — NO — Discolours
- Enamelled cast iron — Yes, but hand-washing is kinder — Chips over time
Oil wooden boards monthly with food-safe mineral oil. Dry, cracked boards harbour bacteria in the splits.
Questions about the Cleaning Equipment poster
- What’s on the Cleaning Equipment poster?
- A 7-row table: Item · Dishwasher? · Note. What is safe where. Stainless steel — Yes — Fine; Cast iron — NO — Strips seasoning, causes rust; Non-stick — Not advised — Shortens coating life; Wooden boards & spoons — NO — Cracks and warps; Sharp knives — NO — Dulls edges, damages handles; Aluminium — NO — Discolours; Enamelled cast iron — Yes, but hand-washing is kinder — Chips over time. Oil wooden boards monthly with food-safe mineral oil. Dry, cracked boards harbour bacteria in the splits.
- Who is the Cleaning Equipment poster for?
- Cleaning Equipment belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning equipment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cleaning Equipment poster?
- Almost every ruined pan is a dishwasher decision. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cleaning Equipment belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cleaning Equipment?
- Blenders & Processors, Cast Iron and Choosing Pans sit alongside Cleaning Equipment in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Blenders & ProcessorsCast IronChoosing Pans
- Is the Cleaning Equipment poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cleaning Equipment downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cleaning Equipment poster print at?
- Cleaning Equipment is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cleaning Equipment loses nothing.Printing guide
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