Cutlery Polisher
- 21% Off RRP
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Sammic SAM-3001 Cutlery Polisher - BenchtopOur Price $9,502.00 ex GST Our Price $10,452.20 Inc GST
Daily Rental: $17.23 Inc GST - 21% Off RRP
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Sammic SAS-6001 Cutlery Polisher - Free StandingOur Price $15,719.00 ex GST Our Price $17,290.90 Inc GSTDaily Rental: $28.50 Inc GST
Choosing a Commercial Cutlery Polisher
What it actually saves you
Hand polishing cutlery is one of those jobs that quietly eats hours. A venue doing 200 covers is polishing somewhere around 600 pieces a service, and at a realistic rate that's the better part of an hour of paid labour every day, usually at the end of a shift when nobody wants to be doing it. A cutlery polisher handles that in a fraction of the time with someone feeding it while they do something else. On labour cost alone most units pay for themselves inside a year in a venue of any size.
How they work
Cutlery goes in wet from the dishwasher and drops into a chamber of heated granulate, usually corn cob or a similar food-safe media. Rotating brushes tumble the cutlery through the granulate, which absorbs the moisture and buffs the surface at the same time. Pieces come out dry, polished and warm in around 30 seconds. The granulate is the consumable and it needs replacing periodically depending on volume, so factor that into running costs.
Sanitising and UV
Some models add a UV lamp in the chamber, which sanitises the cutlery as it polishes. That matters most in aged care, healthcare and anywhere handling cutlery for vulnerable people, and it's increasingly expected in hotels and function venues too. If you're in a sector with an auditor, worth checking whether UV is a requirement or just a nice-to-have before you spec.
Sizing by pieces per hour
Output is quoted in pieces per hour, typically somewhere from 3,000 to 8,000 depending on the machine. That sounds enormous until you work out that a busy hotel or function venue clearing 400 covers is putting through well over a thousand pieces in a sitting. Bench top units suit restaurants and smaller venues. Floor standing models with larger chambers are for hotels, clubs and contract catering where cutlery is coming through continuously.
Cutlery has to be dry-ish, not soaking
The one operational catch. Cutlery straight out of a machine with poor rinse performance comes out dripping, and excess water saturates the granulate quickly, which means replacing it more often and worse polishing results. If your dishwasher isn't achieving a proper hot rinse, fix that first, because a polisher won't compensate for it. Water quality matters here too: if glasses are coming out spotted, cutlery is coming out spotted, and the polisher is working harder than it needs to.
Brands and support
We stock commercial cutlery polishers built for continuous service, with replacement granulate and parts available. If you're setting up a wash-up area from scratch, our pass through dishwashers, glasswashers and sink benching can be specced together so the flow works. Everything is available on SilverChef Rent-Try-Buy, with installation and servicing through our own technicians.