Do you also have the same problem:
- Is the kitchen as hot as an oven in summer?
- If work-study students come and leave within a day, they can’t keep people?
- Old employees complain that the operating environment is too hard and efficiency is getting lower and lower?
- Open flames, gas stoves, and gas barrels are turned on every day, and the entire working area is steaming?
Many food processing plants, central kitchens and small and medium-sized catering operators face the same problem - the kitchen is too hot and they cannot hire people, let alone stabilize production capacity and improve efficiency. But you know what? The root cause of these problems is not actually "people", but "the equipment you use".
Stoves and open-fire stoves are sources of heat and the cause of employee turnover.
At present, many small and medium-sized food processors still commonly use the following equipment:
- stove heating cooking pot
- open gas stove
- Gas barrel direct-fired heating stove
- Mobile open flame steam equipment
- Gas type steamer
- Gas type steam warehouse
What do these devices have in common?
The heat source is located directly at the work site, cannot be managed centrally, and the heat dissipation is amazing!
This not only causes the kitchen temperature to be above 35°C for a long time, but also causes the following consequences:
- Employees are sweating profusely and lack concentration
- The work site is slippery, increasing work safety risks
- New employees can’t stand the environment and leave within two or three days.
- Production efficiency declines and process quality is unstable
- Turning on the air conditioner wastes electricity and the temperature cannot be lowered.
- These seemingly "little daily problems" actually represent the company's increasing personnel costs, efficiency losses and potential risks.
Central heating × remote steam boiler to cool down the kitchen and save money
What happens if we move the heat source out of the work area?
This is where the greatest value of a steam boiler system lies.
The design of the Chuang Ting steam boiler system is to install a high-efficiency steam boiler outdoors or in a machine room, and then transport the heat energy to the required equipment through closed steam pipelines, such as:
- Steam double rotary cooker/pressure cooker
- Steam cabinet/steam table
- Steamer station/three-story steam room
- Warming table/seven-star furnace
The benefits of this design are:
- ⚠️ There is no open flame at the work site
- ⚠️ Centralized control of heat sources, no waste of heat dissipation
- ⚠️ The perceived temperature in the kitchen drops by 5-8°C
- ⚠️ Improved safety, employees are more willing to stay for a long time
- ⚠️ Simplify equipment management and reduce maintenance costs
- ⚠️ These improvements are the basis for retaining good employees and building a stable production line.
High temperature = low efficiency, this account cannot be ignored
Did you know? According to research:
When worksite temperatures reach above 35°C, employee productivity drops by an average of 20–30%!
Sweat dripping into the product, employees making operational mistakes, and being distracted leading to negligence are not accidental, they are the consequences of a bad environment. What's more serious is:
- Heat exhaustion or heat stroke requires medical attention
- Employees leave frequently and training costs increase
- Production delays and order shipping times lengthened
- Food quality defects due to human negligence
What bosses should think about is not "who to find to do it", but "how to make the scene worth staying to do it".
The actual benefits of introducing a steam boiler system
Take Chuang Ting’s customer case as an example, a frozen food processing factory in New Taipei:
- Originally, 8 cannon stoves were used, each of which was used for more than 10 hours a day.
- The average summer temperature in the kitchen is 32-35°C, and the air conditioning cannot be suppressed at all
- The average 6-month employee turnover rate exceeds 25%, and more than 20 new work-study students need to be trained every year
After changing to Chuang Ting OT-500GiE once-through steam boiler system, combined with the steam pipeline centralized heating design:
- The kitchen temperature drops to 26~30°C, and the heat sensation is significantly improved
- Save approximately 15~20% on monthly gas bills
- Improved operational stability and reduced product return rates
- The employee retention rate increased to 90%, and the supervisor said, "I am finally not afraid of not being able to find people in the summer."
- These benefits are not just energy saving or cooling, but also improvements in overall business performance.
Who is suitable for upgrading to a steam boiler system?
We particularly recommend equipment upgrades and on-site assessments for the following types of businesses:
1. Central kitchen and chain brand meal preparation center
Examples: Luncheon operators, frozen prepared foods, soup base packaging, sauce cooking
2. Small food processing factory/family workshop
Examples: Zongzi, noodles, glutinous rice balls, dried tofu, soy milk, hot pot ingredients, meatballs, Hong Kong-style dim sum
3. Small factories that use furnaces but have closed working areas
Examples: basement kitchen, tin house factory, non-air-conditioned environment
Chuang Ting Steam Boiler: Use one system to solve five pain points
- Cooling: Actual lowering of room temperature by 5-8°C
- Risk reduction: no open flames, reducing work safety and heat exhaustion risks
- Cost saving: high-efficiency steam boiler + energy-saving design, reduced gas consumption
- Manpower saving: quick startup, no special operation license required
- Upgraded image: Clean equipment + professional system helps gain customer trust and food verification
We also provide on-site assessments, equipment configuration suggestions, and steam boiler selection calculations, allowing you to spend a small amount of money to make big improvements.
One equipment upgrade brings ten years of stability
Many bosses will say: "I know about heat, but the equipment is expensive!" In fact, this is not the case. Today's steam boiler systems are safer, more space-saving, and easier to maintain than in the past.
Especially Chuang Ting's steam generators and once-through steam boilers (such as MG-350iE, OT-500GiE, OT-1000GiE):
- Quick start, high efficiency, no need for large steam storage barrel
- Optional energy saver increases thermal efficiency to 95%
- Equipped with automatic water softening equipment and dispensing machine, you won’t have to worry about scale problems.
- The steam boiler can be placed outdoors or on the roof, saving valuable space in the kitchen
Don’t let the high temperature overwhelm the production line again, take action now!
Behind "it's hard to find employees" is often "the environment is unbearable". Instead of constantly posting recruitment notices, it is better to solve the problem from the source and make the working environment really better. Contact Chuang Ting now to arrange an on-site assessment and solution proposal to make your kitchen really "cool" this summer and let your employees say: "I am willing to work here for a longer time."
