Groen D-40 40 Gallon Steam Jacketed Kettle - 2/3 Jacket, Manual Tilt, Pedestal Base, Direct Steam

The D-40 has no heat source of its own, which is the point of a 40-gallon direct steam kettle. A yoke stand carries it at floor level and lets the whole vessel tip. A kitchen buys it to stop cooking the same batch three times a day.

Groen jackets two thirds of the vessel, leaving the top of the wall cool enough to work over. Anywhere between 5 and 25 PSI will run it, and 25 PSI is the limit on the sheet. A worm-and-gear crank does the tilting, and because the gear is self-locking the vessel stays exactly where the operator stops it.

Food contact is 316 stainless and the outer shell 304, welded rather than bolted together, which is why cleaning is a wash rather than a strip-down. Lining is 316 stainless, which is the grade to specify where brine and acid are in the vessel daily. There is no control panel on a direct steam kettle of this kind: the crank is the only thing to operate, and the steam supply valve does the rest. It is listed NSF and ASME.

Features

• One-piece welded body — no interior seam to trap product.
• Worm-and-gear tilt — a measured pour at any rate.
• Steam from the building supply — nothing to fire before service.
• Pedestal mounted — a small footprint for the capacity.
• Jacket rated to 25 PSI — headroom for a fast boil.
• NSF listing — the cleanability code jurisdictions adopt.
• 40 Gallons — the standard size for institutional feeding.
• Jacket covers two thirds — gentle on cream soups.

Specifications