Use The FOG Tank® For Casino Kitchen Cleaning

Clean Cookware And Kitchen Equipment With Less Water, Chemicals, Labor, And Electricity

At casinos, the kitchen never really closes. The buffet line, the steakhouse, the café, and the banquet kitchen all run on their own schedules, and the pots, pans, sheet trays, and grill grates behind them collect fat, oil, grease, and carbon around the clock. Casino kitchen cleaning usually means someone scrubbing that buildup off by hand between shifts, or the equipment slowly getting worse until it has to be replaced.

The FOG Tank®, a heated soak tank built for high-volume kitchen operations, works differently. Drop your pans, grill grates, hotel pans, and hood filters into the water, and the proprietary Tiger Carbon Removal Powder loosens the buildup and fully sanitizes items while your team keeps service moving. One fill of water and powder holds its cleaning strength for a full month, so your property spends less on water, chemicals, labor, and electricity no matter how many outlets it feeds.

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What The FOG Tank® Saves Your Casino Every Month

From the materials we use to the features we include, every element of The FOG Tank® takes cost out of your kitchen. Spread that across a property serving thousands of covers a day, and the monthly savings stack up fast.

Less Water: A three-compartment sink has to be drained and refilled with fresh hot water every time it cools, which in a casino kitchen running day and night can happen many times over a single shift. The FOG Tank® gets filled once and keeps working for a month, which could save 340,000 gallons of water a year or more, depending on your current usage.
Less Cleaning Chemicals: Rather than dosing a sink with degreaser for every load, The FOG Tank® takes a single batch of Tiger Carbon Removal Powder once a month. That holds true whether one outlet runs it or every kitchen on the floor shares it.
Less Labor: Stewarding is one of the hardest departments to keep staffed in any casino, and daily warewashing and hand scrubbing carbon off pans eats up hours of it. Metal and heavy-duty plastic cookware and kitchen equipment soaks on its own inside The FOG Tank®, which puts an average of half an hour of stewarding time or more back toward dish rooms, banquet flips, and service during a rush.
Less Electricity: Because The FOG Tank® is stainless steel and fully insulated, it holds its heat between loads instead of pulling power to warm cold water back up every time. In a kitchen that runs 24 hours, that difference shows up on the utility bill ($3,000 or more in savings over the course of a year).

“We got the FOG Tank because it’s our goal to keep the Chef’s pots and pans looking presentable for years to come, while not putting the wear and tear the continuous scrubbing brings on the equipment. The FOG Tank® reduces labor by eliminating the need to scrub carbon buildup and baked-on oil. There’s no need to continuously empty and fill the FOG Tank, which is our favorite feature.”
Keith McDonald, Executive StewardHILTON – SAN DIEGO BAYFRONT

How Our Heated Soak Tank Works For Casino Kitchen Cleaning

FILL

Fill the FOG Tank® with (preferably hot) water to the ‘Fill Line’ marked on the inside, plug the tank into an electrical outlet, and push the ON button.

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ADD

Slowly add the Tiger Carbon-Removal Powder.

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LOAD

Load the soak tank with your dirty pots, pans, vent hood filters, etc., using the ‘lifting basket’ that is housed inside the FOG Tank®.

Close the lid, leaving the items in the tank to soak, and walk away!

REMOVE

Remove the items from the tank, then simply rinse off any loose or softened carbon fragments. Any items removed from our kitchen soak tanks will be clean and fully sanitized.

A sauté pan on a casino line can see more cooks and more covers in a single week than a home kitchen sees in a year. Grill grates over a steakhouse broiler, fryer baskets from a late night menu, hotel pans cycling off the buffet, and sheet trays out of the banquet ovens all carry carbon and grease that gets harder to remove the longer it sits. Hand scrubbing that buildup is slow, and steel wool wears pans and grates down faster than the carbon ever would. Even daily warewashing for pots and pans eats up valuable time staff could spend elsewhere. A heated soak tank built for casino kitchen cleaning lets heat and chemistry do that work instead.

Loading The FOG Tank® fits right into a shift change. Scrape off anything loose, set the item in the lifting basket, and lower it into the water. The tank holds a steady 185° F while the Tiger Carbon Removal Powder works into the fat, oil, grease, and carbon with no scrubbing or agitation from your staff. Aluminum, stainless steel, and other metals or heavy-duty plastic all go in without pitting or discoloration, so the same tank handles a buffet chafing insert and a cast aluminum stock pot in one load. Pull everything out when the soak is done, rinse off what is left, and your cookware and equipment is ready for the next service.

6 Features That Make The FOG Tank® Easy And Effective for Casinos

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Fully Insulated & Thermostatically Controlled

The insulation keeps water at a steady 185° F on its own in The FOG Tank®, so the thermostat isn’t fighting heat loss every minute the lid is open on a busy line. You get consistent sanitizing power at any hour and less strain on your energy bills.

Proprietary Cleaner

Tiger Carbon Removal Powder is built to break down fat, oil, grease, and baked-on carbon, the kind that collects on casino grill grates and fryer baskets. It is non-toxic, biodegradable, and safe on food contact surfaces, so a quick rinse after soaking in The FOG Tank® is all it takes before equipment goes back to service.

304 Stainless Steel Build

The tank body is 304 stainless steel, the same grade found in most commercial kitchen equipment, so The FOG Tank® stands up to constant hot soaking in a room that never cools down.

Lifting Basket

The lifting basket means nobody reaches bare-handed into 185° F water to load or pull cookware and equipment, though staff should still wear gloves to protect against any heat retained from the water. Lower the basket in, let it soak, and lift it back out when the cycle is done.

Fill Line

A marked fill line takes the guesswork out of how much water to add, so every batch of Tiger Carbon Removal Powder mixes at the right strength.

Multiple Sizes

Casino food operations range from a single quick-serve counter to a banquet kitchen plating for a thousand guests. Our soak tanks start at 25 gallons for a tight back of house and go up to a 126-gallon model for the highest volume kitchens and the largest equipment.

What Types of Casino Kitchen Cleaning Can The FOG Tank® Handle?

If it is metal or heavy-duty plastic cookware or kitchen equipment and it fits inside, it can go into The FOG Tank®. Across a casino floor that covers a long list, from fine dining sauté pans to the trays coming out of the employee dining room:

Pots and sauté pans
Grill grates and broiler grates
Fry baskets
Hotel pans and chafing inserts
Sheet trays and roasting pans
Pizza pans and screens
Cambro containers
Cutting boards
Vent hood filters
Salamander racks and oven racks
Other metal or heavy-duty plastic items

That range is what lets a single tank serve the steakhouse, the buffet, the banquet kitchen, and the café off one cleaning setup. Whatever comes off the line can go straight into the basket of The FOG Tank® for cleaning and sanitation.

Hood Filter Cleaning For Casino Kitchens

Every cooking line in a casino sits under a hood, and every one of those hoods pulls grease-laden air into its filters shift after shift. In a building packed with guests around the clock, hood filters caked in grease become a fire safety problem first and a maintenance problem second. Most properties pull hood filters overnight and soak them in the three-compartment sink, which ties up that sink and means draining a full tank of water and chemicals after every cleaning cycle, while still leaving grease for someone to scrub afterward.

The FOG Tank® takes hood filters out of the sink rotation. Load them into the tank instead, and they come out noticeably lighter, about half a pound on average, and fully degreased with no brush involved. Filters that stay clean keep your exhaust system pulling the way it should, which matters for the risk of fire and for the health and safety inspections that come with feeding a crowd this size. With outlets running on different clocks, your team cleans filters on a schedule that works instead of surrendering a sink for a full shift.

One System For Your Entire Casino Kitchen

The FOG Tank® handles the metal and heavy-duty plastic cookware and equipment that fits inside it. For the surfaces that stay put, like oven interiors, floor mats, and worktables, GrimeGo® handles the rest. It’s a non-toxic, non-caustic degreaser made to the same standard as the tank. Run together, these two casino kitchen cleaning products cover virtually everything in the room, from the fryer station down to the floor.

Trusted By Casinos And Commercial Kitchens Nationwide

Bringing new equipment into a food operation as visible as a casino’s means the certifications have to check out. The FOG Tank® carries both NSF (National Sanitation Foundation) and UL (Underwriters Laboratories) certification, and it is already at work in thousands of commercial kitchens across all 50 states. Read testimonials from our customers, or reach out to our experts with questions about your property.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does a heated soak tank keep up with a casino kitchen that runs 24 hours a day?

The FOG Tank® is built for exactly that. Water and Tiger Carbon Removal Powder hold their cleaning strength for a full month whether the tank runs a few times a day or without stopping. A casino kitchen that never closes gets the same result as one that slows down overnight, with no extra chemical or water refill in between.

Can one FOG Tank® handle multiple food outlets under one roof?

Typically, but the right size depends on your volume and layout. The FOG Tank® comes in sizes from 25 gallons up to 126 gallons, so a smaller outlet might run its own tank while a central dish room uses a larger one for the whole floor. The right setup comes down to how much equipment moves through each kitchen, which our team can help you size.

Is the Tiger Carbon Removal Powder safe for aluminum and food contact surfaces?

Yes. The Tiger Carbon Removal Powder is non-caustic, non-toxic, fully biodegradable, and safe on both aluminum and food contact surfaces. Cookware and equipment comes out of The FOG Tank® sanitized. A quick rinse clears any softened carbon or debris, and it is ready to go back on the line.

Does a soak tank replace a three-compartment sink?

Health codes still require a three-compartment sink on site, but what changes is how often you actually use it. The daily washing and the heavy carbon removal for your pans, grates, hood filters, and other metal and heavy-duty plastic cookware and equipment can move into The FOG Tank® instead, which is where the water and labor savings come into play.

What temperature does The FOG Tank® run at?

The FOG Tank® is thermostatically controlled and holds water at 185° F, hot enough to clean and sanitize without any manual scrubbing.

Clean Better, Operate Smarter With FOG Tank®

Casino kitchens that bring in The FOG Tank® tend to notice it within the first few soaks, when the scrubbing stops and the pans still come out looking new. Lease and purchase options are both on the table, depending on what fits your property.

Contact us during business hours by calling (858) 566-6212 or any time by filling out our contact form online, and we will help you land on the right tank size for your operation.