Water Boiler Repair

A catering urn, more commonly known as a commercial water boiler, is essentially a larger and more elaborate version of a kettle. They are better suited to commercial, high-volume environments like a catering kitchen than the domestic kettle.

There are a few other differences between a catering water boiler and a kettle which may make having a water boiler advantageous to your catering kitchen.

Unlike the kettle, catering urns can refill automatically, as long as they’re connected to a water main; they are also available as portable appliances which can be filled manually. Water boilers are capable of containing large volumes of water – 10 litres or more and can automatically reheat, making them efficient within a commercial kitchen often in need of hot water.

After filling the urn with cold water, it will typically take between half an hour and an hour to reach boiling point, depending on the size of the water boiler. A 20-litre urn, for example, will take around an hour to boil cold water.

However, when the catering urn does reach optimal temperature, it can be adjusted to maintain and automatically reheat water in a much quicker fashion. It is important to adjust the desired temperature to an adequate drinking temperature since water boilers are not designed to continuously boil water.

Because of a catering urn’s ability to produce large quantities of hot water at the push of a button, it far exceeds the role of a kettle in a commercial environment, even in spite of having a slower boiling speed.

Commercial water boilers are quite energy efficient, and particularly so when comparing them to an ordinary kettle. A catering water boiler’s ability to maintain hot water at a desired temperature, as opposed to constantly boiling, cooling, and re-boiling the water, saves electricity.

Carefully choosing a suitable size of water boiler will mean your commercial kitchen is not boiling large amounts of water which won’t be used – unnecessarily using up energy.