Cleaning Daily

The UHC must be cleaned daily to remain sanitary. Navigation: Home > GO > Cleaning mode. See Operating Controls.

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Accessing Cleaning Mode

Daily, use Cleaning Mode to cool down the shelves to 120°F (49 °C) to perform a thorough cleaning of the holding cabinet.

NOTE: if starting cleaning mode while the unit is cold, shelves will heat to 120°F (49 °C).

  1. Tap the Cleaning Mode button. Enter Cleaning Mode displays.
  2. Tap the Green Checkmark to begin the cool down cycle or Red X to cancel. If you tap the checkmark to continue, the Cooling Down screen displays.
  3. Once the screen turns green and Safe to Clean displays, clean the holding cabinet.

Cleaning the Racks, Trays, and Shelves

IMPORTANT: Racks should be cleaned every four hours.

Once the shelves are cool, do the following:

  1. Once cooled, remove trays and racks, wash in sink or warewasher.
  2. If using warewasher, skip to step 4.
  3. If washing in sink, do the following:
    1. Place trays and tracks into wash compartment of the sink filled with fresh hot (110-120°F) APSC Solution.
    2. For heavy soil buildup, pre-spray with Super Contact Cleaner; allow to soak for 10 minutes.
    3. Use small wares cleaning brush to remove all soil buildup from wire racks. NOTE: Use a no-scratch pad to scrub trays.
    4. Rinse and sanitize all items; sanitize in solution for one minute; allow to air dry.
    5. NOTE: Rotate items to allow cleaning and sanitizing of all surfaces.

  4. Fill a clean bucket with hot (110-120°F) APSC Solution.
  5. Dip Hi-Temp Multi-use tool pad into APSC Solution; shake excess solution off pad into bucket.
  6. NOTE: Failure to shake out all excess solution from pad, can result in permanent damage to UHC electrical components.

  7. Scrub inside of each UHC cabinet shelf with Hi-Temp Multi-use tool with Pad.
  8. Repeat for all UHC shelves.
  9. Remove Multi-use pad, and then set aside.
  10. Retrieve white universal pad from clean towel bucket and wring it out thoroughly.
  11. Slide white universal pad onto tool.
  12. Use white universal pad to wipe out and rinse UHC shelves; repeat for all shelves.
  13. NOTE: Make sure to wring out white universal pad before using in UHC shelves.

Cleaning the Holding Cabinet Exterior

  1. Spray a clean sanitizer-soaked towel with peroxide multi-surface cleaner and disinfectant solution.
  2. Wipe exterior of cabinet.
  3. Discard towel into soiled towel bucket after use.
  4. Exit clean mode by tapping the back arrow, and then the green checkmark.

    Note: The unit must reheat the shelves to return to normal operation, about 35 min.

  5. Wash, rinse, and sanitize tools at wash sink.