Certificate of Acceptability
Your cleaning method alone does not decide whether you get the certificate. What the inspection looks at includes your surfaces, your equipment and your records, and a documented cleaning process helps with all three.
For commercial kitchens and food prep
The canopy is the first thing they look at.
Dry steam shifts the grease with heat and very little water, not caustic.
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Supplying steamers since 2013 Supplied and serviced from the Eastern Cape Steam Italy (Italy) and Optima (Korea)
The problem
Stand at your line. Look up, then look down.
Look up first. Canopy grease sets into a hard, layered film. A degreaser won't lift it, so the products that do are caustic.
Now look behind the fryer and up on the gantries, where nobody moves anything.
Then look down. A mop pushes dirt into the grout, which stays damp. You're moving it, not removing it.
Which of the three costs you most?
Ask about your lineWhy steam, here
Caustic on the canopy, or heat and very little water.
You already pay a contractor to clean the canopy. Do the routine cleans in-house and that part of the invoice goes. Duct and canopy certification usually stays with the contractor.
X-STEAM steam output
0 to 324 grams a minute
Adjustable: full output for the canopy, turned down for grout.
Where the figure comes from
Steam Italy X-STEAM datasheet
First steam socket. The second is 0 to 220 grams a minute. Higher figures on the sheet include injected detergent or hot water.
Where it lives
Start with these three
- Gas burners, stoves and hob surrounds
- Burner crowns, trivets and the well underneath collect fat that bakes on every service. Steam softens it in place, so the parts go back on the line instead of into a soak tank.
- Stainless prep surfaces and tables
- The flat top is easy. The weld seams, leg sockets and underside lip are where a swab is taken, and steam reaches into a seam a cloth passes over.
- Floors and floor-to-wall junctions
- The floor-to-wall junction stays wet and is hard to reach. Steam cleans it, and the vacuum takes the dirt up instead of leaving a wet cove behind.
The steamer
Which steamer, and why
- INOX 6000
- For floors and grout on an ordinary plug. What comes off goes into its waste tank, not down the wall.
- INOX 8000XL
- For a line cleaned between services, because it is ready quickly.
- X-STEAM
- For two people at once: one on the canopy, one on the floor.
Electric, single-phase
Steam Italy
INOX 6000
Steam and vacuum, with a 9 litre waste tank
37 kg weight
4 min to heat up
5 L water tank
Electric, single-phase
Steam Italy
INOX 8000XL
156 grams of steam a minute, ready in 3 minutes
34.5 kg weight
3 min to heat up
5 L water tank
Electric, three-phase
Steam Italy
X-STEAM
Steam, detergent, water jet and suction in one
65 kg weight
4 min to heat up
Two people at once
Steam Italy, built in Italy
Steam and vacuum, with a 9 litre waste tank
For kitchens, butcheries, bakeries, guest houses and creches. It steams and vacuums in one unit, runs off an ordinary plug, and draws its steam from an AISI 304 stainless steel boiler.
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37 kg
weight
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4 min
to heat up
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5 L
water tank
Performance
- Operating pressure How hard the steam pushes while the steamer works, in bar.
- 10 bar
- Steam temperature in the boiler The heat inside the boiler, not at your surface. Steam Italy publishes no gun-tip figure.
- 184 degrees C
- Steam output How much steam it makes a minute.
- 100 grams a minute
- Detergent injection with steam Detergent fed into the steam, per minute.
- 10 cc a minute
- Hot water injection plus steam, combined The steam and the hot water together. The steam alone is the Steam output row.
- 364 grams a minute
- Heat-up time How long from switching on until it is ready to use.
- 4 min
Power
- Boiler power The electrical power used to heat the boiler.
- 3 200 W
- Total power draw The power the whole steamer takes from your supply.
- 3 200 W
- Power supply The electricity it needs: single-phase or three-phase, and the voltage.
- Single-phase, 230 V AC / 50 Hz
- Vacuum suction How strongly it sucks, in kPa. A higher number is stronger suction.
- 21.5 kPa
Capacity
- Boiler volume How much water the boiler holds.
- 2 L
- Boiler material AISI 304 is a standard grade of stainless steel.
- AISI 304 stainless steel
- Water tank
- 5 L
- Detergent tank
- 5 L
- Waste tank Holds what the vacuum picks up.
- 9 L
Physical
- Net weight
- 37 kg
- Dimensions Size of the steamer, in millimetres.
- 440 x 465 x 705 mm
- Certification
- CE
Comes with
- Clear nozzle
Optional extras
- 5 m steam-and-vacuum hose
- Fogger
- Steam-only hose with control knob
- 40 cm steam mop
Ask a specialist which accessories suit your job.
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Steam Italy, built in Italy
156 grams of steam a minute, ready in 3 minutes
For kitchens, butcheries, cold rooms and guest houses. It makes 156 grams of steam a minute, refills itself so the steam does not stop, and has a push handle and wheels for moving between jobs.
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34.5 kg
weight
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3 min
to heat up
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5 L
water tank
Performance
- Operating pressure How hard the steam pushes while the steamer works, in bar.
- 10 bar
- Steam temperature in the boiler The heat inside the boiler, not at your surface. Steam Italy publishes no gun-tip figure.
- 184 degrees C
- Steam output How much steam it makes a minute.
- 156 grams a minute
- Detergent injection with steam Detergent fed into the steam, per minute.
- 10 cc a minute
- Hot water injection plus steam, combined The steam and the hot water together. The steam alone is the Steam output row.
- 392 grams a minute
- Heat-up time How long from switching on until it is ready to use.
- 3 min
Power
- Boiler power The electrical power used to heat the boiler.
- 3 200 to 6 400 W
- Total power draw The power the whole steamer takes from your supply.
- 3 200 to 6 400 W
- Power supply The electricity it needs: single-phase or three-phase, and the voltage.
- Single-phase, 230 V AC / 50 Hz
Capacity
- Boiler volume How much water the boiler holds.
- 3 L
- Boiler material AISI 304 is a standard grade of stainless steel.
- AISI 304 stainless steel
- Water tank
- 5 L
Physical
- Net weight
- 34.5 kg
- Dimensions Size of the steamer, in millimetres.
- 380 x 430 x 350 mm
- Certification
- CE
Comes with
- 10 m industrial steam-only hose
- 5 m steam-and-vacuum hose
- Complete XSTEAM steam-and-vacuum hose
- Aromatherapy attachment for essential oils
- Anti-scale treatment
Optional extras
- Fogger
- 40 cm steam-only mop
Steam Italy does not publish a vacuum figure for the 8000XL. These are the hoses it ships with.
Ask a specialist which accessories suit your job.
12-month factory warranty Maintenance plans After-sales service in major cities
Steam Italy, built in Italy
Steam, detergent, water jet and suction in one
For commercial kitchens with three-phase power. It has the XSTEAM 18K's two outlets on a 9 kW boiler, at 65 kg instead of 80, takes a mains water feed, and steams, injects detergent and vacuums.
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65 kg
weight
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4 min
to heat up
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Two people at once
Performance
- Operating pressure How hard the steam pushes while the steamer works, in bar.
- 10 bar
- Steam temperature in the boiler The heat inside the boiler, not at your surface. Steam Italy publishes no gun-tip figure.
- 184 degrees C
- Steam output How much steam it makes a minute.
- 0 to 324 grams a minute
- Steam output, second socket Steam from the second hose connection, so a second person can work at the same time.
- 0 to 220 grams a minute
- Detergent injection plus steam, combined The steam and the detergent together. The steam alone is the Steam output row.
- 368 grams a minute
- Hot water injection plus steam, combined The steam and the hot water together. The steam alone is the Steam output row.
- 556 grams a minute
- Heat-up time How long from switching on until it is ready to use.
- 4 min
Power
- Boiler power The electrical power used to heat the boiler.
- 9 000 W
- Total power draw The power the whole steamer takes from your supply.
- 10 300 W
- Power supply The electricity it needs: single-phase or three-phase, and the voltage.
- Three-phase, 380 V AC / 50 Hz
- Vacuum suction How strongly it sucks, in kPa. A higher number is stronger suction.
- 21.6 kPa
Capacity
- Boiler volume How much water the boiler holds.
- 5 L
- Boiler material AISI 304 is a standard grade of stainless steel.
- AISI 304 stainless steel
- Water tank
- 11 L
- Detergent tank
- 5 L
- Waste tank Holds what the vacuum picks up.
- 20 L
Physical
- Net weight
- 65 kg
- Dimensions Size of the steamer, in millimetres.
- 760 x 623 x 650 mm
- People who can work at once
- 2
- Certification
- CE
Comes with
- Combined steam and vacuum nozzle
- Clear nozzle
- Steam hose
Optional extras
- 38 mm steel-bristle brush
- 90 cm industrial lance
- 10 m steam-only hose
Ask a specialist which accessories suit your job.
12-month factory warranty Maintenance plans After-sales service in major cities
Inspection
What an inspection asks
An environmental health practitioner does not ask what machine you own. A cleaning record that says what was cleaned, how and when is evidence. "We clean nightly" is not. That is what changes an inspection, and it is worth being exact about the limit: no supplier can tell you that a machine satisfies R638, and anyone who does is telling you something they cannot support.
What the certificate asks for
Can steam remove carbonised grease that a degreaser will not touch?
Often, yes. Steam softens the layer with heat, and on the INOX 6000 and X-STEAM the vacuum takes it off the surface. Send us a photo of yours and a specialist will tell you how far steam gets.
Can I clean during service, or does the kitchen need to be closed?
Floors, grout and behind fixed equipment, yes, outside a rush. The canopy sits over food-contact surfaces, so do it after close.
Is steam safe on my stainless, my tiles and my grout?
Yes, on sound grout: it is gentler because it doesn't soak it. Where grout has cracked or gone soft, steam opens the gap further, so repair it first. Printed or painted finishes need the right distance, which the training covers.
Show us the canopy.
Send a specialist a photo of the worst section. They'll tell you what steam lifts and which steamer suits you.
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