What Type Of Cold Room Do I Need For Storing Fresh Fish & Seafood?
One industry that isn’t commonly spoken about is fish storage. Fish storage, like many other businesses, contributes greatly to the foods we all love to consume on a daily basis. So, ensuring you’ve got the correct cold storage solutions for your processes and products is extremely important, and can provide a range of benefits for your business! 
Fish and The UK
The Brexit trade negotiations have highlighted the important role that fish plays in the UK’s culinary choices.
Fish is a delicious and healthy meal option, but it’s also prone to rapid spoilage if stored incorrectly. They have evolved to swim in water that is often considerably colder than the air; therefore, unless correct temperatures are maintained, bacterial growth can occur, posing a health and safety risk to your customers and the future of your business.
To prevent spoilage of fresh fish and avoid the accidental contamination of other foods, it’s necessary to follow strict storage protocols to ensure that your seafood remains safe.
Different Types of Cold Rooms for Fish & Seafood Storage
Depending on your requirements, there are several different types of cold rooms that will benefit your fish and seafood business’ requirements.
Storing Fish In A Walk-In Cold Room
Fresh fish needs to be refrigerated, so a walk-in cold room is an ideal location for you to store your products whilst retaining easy access.
If you’re wanting to store and sell your fish freshly, it is advised that you keep your products at a consistent refrigerated temperature for no longer than 1-2 days. MTCSS can supply and install bespoke chiller cold rooms and walk-in fridges to suit your exact temperature and product requirements.
Storing Frozen Fish In A Walk-In Freezer
If you’re looking to store and preserve your fresh products for longer, then a walk-in freezer is ideal for you.
The recommended temperature to store fish for more than two days is -30°C: This is because, at this temperature bacterial growth is stopped, eliminating the risk of harmful pathogens that could infect consumers.
A freezer cold room can maintain negative temperatures all the way down to -40°C so would be a suitable cold room solution to keep your fish at the highest-quality for your customers, even when stored for an extended period of time.
As well as walk-in freezers, MTCSS can also offer blast freezer cold rooms; a more powerful refrigeration system that is utilised to freeze chilled and ambient products quicker than a regular walk-in freezer could.
Blast freezers help to reduce the amount of time your products spend at higher temperatures, being fully frozen within 5-8 hours (depending on your product sizes) at temperatures between -30°C and -35°C.
Considerations To Take When Storing Fish In Cold Rooms And Freezers
When storing fish in your chiller and freezer cold rooms, it’s important to separate it from other items of food, including cooked fish, to prevent cross-contamination by food-borne pathogens.
Also, because seafood contains high levels of salt (which is corrosive to metals) it is vital that your cold room receives suitable anti-corrosion treatment to prevent any further contamination of your products.
Stainless steel cold room panels are ideal for resisting corrosion, and we can even customise your cold room doors to be manufactured from stainless steel!
Cold Room Spares & Find Out More
Maybe you’ve already got a walk-in chiller or freezer cold room to store your fresh fish products in? No problem, the MTCSS Shop is here to support you with all of your cold room spares requirements.
Whether you need a new cold room door, a cold room door gasket or a cold room entrapment alarm the MTCSS Shop has got you covered!
Don’t see the product you’re after? Contact our team today – we will always try to source the product you’re after!
At MTCSS, we can supply and install a range of walk-in cold rooms to help your business to store fresh products safely and hygienically. If you’d like more information, or would like to understand the benefits that a cold room solution from MTCSS can provide you with, contact our expert team today.
Call us on 01886 833381, email us at sales@mtcss.flywheelsites.com or fill in an enquiry form here!
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