How to Make Slime in a Commercial Kitchen
Whether you are a school supplying slime to students or a catering party venue that offers making slime as an activity, you need a commercial kitchen space to make slime on a large scale. If slime is new to you, this article explains what slime is and how to make slime in a commercial kitchen so you can produce and use it efficiently in your business.
What is Slime and What is it Used For
Slime is weird to explain since it’s neither a liquid nor a solid. Since slime is so unique, it’s a perfect tool for teaching chemistry and other sciences. Slime is incredibly versatile as to what it can be used for.
Toys
In the eyes of children, slime is seen as a toy. Kids are fascinated with slime and manipulating it in fun ways. Slime comes with different colors, textures, firmness and even scents. It even makes for a fun activity in a sensory play table at a preschool. It’s no shock what a cool toy it can be in the eyes of children.
Teaching Tool
You can also incorporate slime in a science class. The production of slime just requires basic chemistry to create it. It makes for an excellent teaching tool. It lets kids learn about states of matter and other basic chemistry lessons for all ages.
Therapy Aid
Slime can also be therapeutic when used for sensory play. Slime has a calming quality and can require a person to focus on it. This helps it stimulate the senses and can be soothing for a child to play with and even work to help them focus in class by letting them fiddle with it.
What Commercial Mixers Make Slime
There are a few key features to keep in mind when picking out a commercial mixer to produce slime.
Attachments
One feature to keep in mind are the available mixing attachments a unit has. The mixing attachments are vital since they are going to be what mixes the ingredients of slime and any sort of extras like glitter, foam balls, and other textures. You want it to have the attachments you need in order to adequately mix everything together, including your extras.
Portability
Whether you need it to move around from classroom to classroom of a school or from venue to venue as a caterer, your slime-making equipment needs to be portable. So consider things like the weight of the unit or if it is on wheels or not.
Durability
You may also want to think about the durability of the unit. Look to buyer reviews to see if the unit is durable enough to last through heavy use of different slimes. Speaking of different slimes, you will also want to think about versatility. The mixer needs to be able to mix a variety of different slimes or mix in different textures and thus should be versatile.
Cleaning
You will also want to make sure it’s easy enough to clean and that you know how to clean your commercial mixer. Slime can be considered somewhat messy, so something that cleans easily is a must-have.
How to Make Slime in a Commercial Mixer
There are a few staple ingredients you have to have to make slime. You will need glue, water, baking soda and saline solution. You can also add other ingredients like food dye for coloring, glitters, scent oils or other small beads and such for textures. These are not required though to make slime.
The main piece of equipment you need to make slime is your commercial mixer. You will use it to mix up a large batch of slime instead of working on a small batch by hand.
These are the steps to create slime in the commercial mixer:
- Add glue, water, saline solution, and baking soda into mixer bowel
- Turn on mixer and begin mixing contents
- While unit is mixing add any extras like scent oils or coloring
- Once all contents are thoroughly mixed together turn off the mixer
- Check the consistency of the slime and determine if it needs more water or glue