Wire Shelving for Professional Kitchens in Toronto

Keeping a kitchen in perfect working order is vital for the kitchen to function. This is doubly true for professional kitchens. One of the most important parts of kitchen organization is shelving. If you work in a professional kitchen, you know how important enough of the right shelving is. So here’s how Keystone Home Products can help.

Why Professional Kitchens Use Wire Shelving

Professional kitchens, by and large, use a lot of the same tactics, all across the world. One of those tactics is using wire shelving. Why is it that wire shelving is universally loved by professional cooks?

Cleanliness

The first reason wire shelving is far superior to solid shelving in a kitchen is cleanliness. Can things get on the wires? Absolutely. But, it’s much less likely. While something sticky could get onto a wire shelf and need wiping off, non-sticky substances wall right through. Hopefully, you wouldn’t be putting dirty objects on the clean shelving. But, sometimes when you walk by a shelf, a crumb escapes a plate in hand. Solid shelving ensures that crumb gathers with all the other crumbs and dust and stays put. Wire shelving allows it to fall through to the floor where it will get swept up later.

There is only one flaw in that argument. Did you spot it? What happens if the crumb falls through the shelving and into a bowl? Well, the fact is, any open-top bowl holds the same risk while stored on solid shelving. However, the dishes and tools in a professional kitchen have such a high use turnover rate that its rare for a day to go by when it isn’t being pulled off the shelf and used. Any stray crumb will be discarded and the bowl will be rinsed, used, and freshly washed. Do you know what doesn’t have a high turnover rate? The shelf it’s stored on. That’s why it’s so important to prevent it from building up grime at high speeds.

Accessibility

The next benefit to wire shelving is accessibility. Because wire shelving can be set up virtually anywhere in a kitchen, all of the kitchen tools are right where they’re needed. A whole wall can be lined with wire shelving if needed. The open face of it makes finding what you need easy.

Adjustability

On top of the accessibility of wire shelving, there’s also the adjustability. You can move wire shelving whenever needed and you can also adjust the shelf heights. This is ideal for kitchens, as there are many different sizes of supplies. If you have a large machine component that needs to be stored much of the time, don’t worry about a tight fight. You can adjust the bottom shelves so that it sits neatly on the bottom of the shelf without issue. Standard shelf a few inches too short for your stack of plates? Not adjustable wire shelving. Just move the next shelf up a bit.