Aberdeen · Hygiene
A full back-of-house deep clean for Aberdeen kitchens - surfaces, equipment and structure - that stands up to an environmental health inspection and protects your food hygiene inspection result.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen City Council rates hundreds of restaurants, cafes and canteens, and the number on the door is the first thing a customer checks.
Aberdeen eats out along Union Street and Belmont Street, up Rosemount and around the harbour and Castlegate, where the restaurants, bars and cafes feed a city built on the granite and energy trades. Add the halls and residences of the University of Aberdeen, the staff canteens at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and the offshore-employer messes and canteens, and hundreds of kitchens across the city cook to the same inspection standard.
A deep clean is what stands behind a good rating when the Aberdeen inspector arrives. We clean well beyond a nightly close-down - the surfaces, the equipment inside and behind, and the structure, from a greased extract canopy over a Union Street range to the grouting under a George Street kitchen - to the standard an environmental health inspection actually scores.
The inspection
The Food Hygiene Information Scheme result an officer gives an Aberdeen kitchen rests on three things checked on the day, and a deep clean shifts two of them.
How food is prepped, cooked, cooled and stored on your line - your practice, but it stands on genuinely clean surfaces and equipment underneath it.
The state of the structure and equipment - the pillar a deep clean lifts directly, from a carbonised Union Street range wall to the grouting in a George Street kitchen.
Your records and cleaning schedule - a documented deep clean gives you the dated evidence an Aberdeen EHO wants to see behind it.
The clean
Top to bottom and into the equipment, across the whole range an Aberdeen kitchen runs - not a wipe-down.
Cooking lines stripped and degreased, fryers and ranges cleaned out, the extract canopy and filters cleared, stainless polished, walls and ceilings washed down, fridges and cold rooms sanitised, and the carbonised grease behind the hot line that a nightly close-down never touches. From a single Schoolhill range to a city-scale production kitchen, we work around your service - overnight or on a close day - and leave a dated record of exactly what was done.
On the ground in Aberdeen
We are in Aberdeen's kitchens every week. Real jobs, not a gallery of someone else's.
A town-centre takeaway kitchen in Aberdeen had grease worked into the worktops and splashbacks around the pass, with limescale around the sinks. We deep-cleaned throughout, covering the worktops and splashbacks, the appliances inside and out, and the extract canopy. The kitchen was left clean, bright and food-safe, ready for service, and we handed over the supporting paperwork and photos.
When to book
Usually before the inspector, not after.
Before an FHIS re-inspection, after an Improvement Required result that needs turning around to a Pass, at a Castlegate handover or a new George Street opening, ahead of a busy season, or on a quarterly cycle so grease never gets the chance to build. A daily clean keeps an Aberdeen kitchen running; a deep clean resets it to the condition Aberdeen City Council's officers actually score - two different jobs, done by different hands.
How it runs
Walk the Aberdeen kitchen, agree scope and a slot around your service times.
Equipment and food areas safed off before work starts - important where a Schoolhill kitchen has to reopen the next day.
Surfaces, equipment and structure - deep, and behind the hot line where the grease hides.
A dated record of what was cleaned, for your file and the next Aberdeen EHO visit.
Questions
Daily cleaning keeps surfaces usable between services. A deep clean reaches what that never does - behind and beneath fixed equipment, inside ovens, fryers and extraction canopies, and across walls, ceilings and floor junctions. It is the part of a Schoolhill or George Street kitchen an environmental health inspection actually looks at.
It targets exactly what the council's officers score on the physical side - the condition and cleanliness of structure and equipment, from a greased Union Street extract to the grouting on a George Street line. It cannot change how you handle food, but it removes the build-up that drags a result down.
Often. A documented deep clean resets a kitchen to a clean baseline for a new Castlegate opening, a change of operator or a George Street lease handover, with photographs and a schedule of work for the file.
It depends on the kitchen - a small George Street independent is usually a night, a city-scale production kitchen several. We scope it on the walk-round and work around your service so you lose no covers.
Yes. We work overnight, early mornings or on closing days, and across consecutive nights where a Schoolhill or George Street site has to stay open. There is no extra charge for out-of-hours work.
Yes - the canopy, its baffle filters and the visible run come with the deep clean, which matters most on a heavy Union Street line where the canopy carbonises fastest and the inspector looks first.
Yes - from Schoolhill and George Street to the suburbs, and across the wider Aberdeen.
Local knowledge
Aberdeen Harbour has traded since 1136 and is often called the oldest recorded business in Britain, still working the North Sea ferry and supply routes from the heart of the city. That harbour and the city around it eat out in real volume, and feeding those crowds puts heavy load through local kitchens. Every one is held to the same hygiene inspection, and a spotless canopy, filter bank and food-safe extraction run is exactly what an inspector expects behind the counter.
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