Why this rinse aid earns its place
Plastic is one of the harder materials to dry cleanly in a warewasher – water tends to sit and streak rather than sheet off the way it does on glass or stainless steel – and Winterhalter B170XD is built specifically to solve that. It's a highly concentrated, neutral rinse aid designed to speed the drying of plastic items, aimed squarely at reusable plastic cups and dishes rather than general tableware.
The practical payoff is that cups and dishes come out properly dry and can be stacked inside each other hygienically straight after washing, rather than needing to sit out to air dry before they can go back into storage or service. That's a genuine saving for any bar or venue running reusable plastic cups, even at a smaller scale than a stadium or festival operation.
It's especially suitable for plastic, but it's also rated for silver and aluminium items, so it's not a narrow, single-material product. Being highly concentrated, dosing is efficient even from a smaller pack, and it delivers fast, spotless draining across the load. As with the rest of the range, it's recommended for use with the matched Winterhalter warewasher, chemistry and water treatment. It comes as an unperfumed, blue liquid in a 5 litre pack, and carries an irritant hazard classification.
COSHH: six habits of safe chemical use
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health — the routine every commercial kitchen and cleaning cupboard is expected to run.
SDS
Read the label and the manufacturer’s safety data sheet — the pictograms tell you what you are holding.
Who could be harmed, and how badly? Judge likelihood against severity before anyone opens the cap.
Eliminate or substitute first, engineer and organise next — PPE is the last line, never the first.
Keep the controls working: check ventilation, dosing equipment and storage stay as they should be.
Everyone who uses it knows the hazards, the correct dilution and the PPE — before the first shift, not after.
Products and processes change. Reassess when they do, and keep the record that proves it.
