Tableware
Containers Food Service Stainless Steel
Containers Food Service Stainless Steel is a group of 8 IMPA-coded items (codes 170851–170858) under Tableware in the Tableware & Galley Utensils section (IMPA 17). All of them are priced per piece. Every item in the list is stainless steel.
Buying guide
Food-service containers are the stainless-steel pans that sit in bain-maries, hot cupboards, salad bars and ovens. The group lists them by Gastronorm fraction and capacity: 1/9 (1.0 l), 1/6 (1.6 l), 1/4 (2.6 l), 1/3 (3.8 l), 1/2 (6.2 l), L1/2 (5.8 l), 2/3 (8.6 l) and 1/1 (13.8 l). Lids are in the neighbouring covers group.
The chief cook raises them when pans are dented, lost or a serving line is re-equipped. Because the fractions add up to the full size, a mix of smaller pans fills the same opening as one 1/1 pan.[1]
How to specify it
State the GN fraction and the capacity or depth for each line, and the quantity. The base GN 1/1 is 530 × 325 mm, defined in EN 631-1; 1/2 is 325 × 265 mm, 1/3 is 325 × 176 mm, 1/4 is 265 × 162 mm, 1/6 is 176 × 162 mm, 1/9 is 176 × 108 mm and 2/3 is 355 × 325 mm. Common depths are 20, 40, 65, 100, 150 and 200 mm, so give the depth or the capacity, not the fraction alone.[1]
Order matching covers in the same fraction if lids are needed, and check that the depth fits under the bain-marie lid or into the oven rack spacing.
Rules and certificates
WHO’s Guide to Ship Sanitation asks that equipment and containers in contact with food be designed and built so they can be adequately cleaned, disinfected and maintained, with food-contact materials corrosion resistant, non-toxic, non-absorbent, easily cleanable, smooth and durable.[2]
MLC, 2006 Standard A3.2 paragraph 7 requires frequent documented inspections of the galley and other equipment for the preparation and service of meals, by or under the authority of the master.[3]
Questions buyers ask
- What size is a GN 1/1 food pan?
- 530 × 325 mm (EN 631-1); every other Gastronorm size is a fraction or multiple of it.
- Will two 1/2 pans fit where a 1/1 pan goes?
- Yes. Gastronorm sizing is fractional, so two GN 1/2 containers take the place of one GN 1/1.
Sources
Published by Sherif Awad, founder of GeoMarineHub — in ship supply since 1990, a family business since 1981 (45 years). Last checked .
At a glance
Part of Tableware & Galley Utensils (IMPA section 17): Plates, cups, cutlery, cookware, knives, ovenware and the tools of a working galley.
It is one of 78 groups under Tableware; the others include Baskets Bread Bamboo, Baskets Bread Plastic, Baskets Fruit Plastic, Bells Hand, Bells Table and 72 more.
Post the ones you need as a requirement and verified suppliers activated at your port bid on them — sealed, so nobody sees another bid.
- Items
- 8
- IMPA codes
- 170851–170858
- Priced
- per piece
- Materials
- stainless steel
Items
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