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A squeeze bottle turns a sauce into a portioned ingredient. Instead of a spoon and a guess, you get the same line on every plate, and the cost of sauce per cover stops being a mystery.

Sauce bottles and dressing dispensers are chosen on the nozzle more than the body. A fine tip for a drizzle or a decorative line, a wide tip for a thick sauce or a mayonnaise, and a cap with a valve where you want portion control rather than a free pour. Commercial dressing dispensers for a service counter usually have a pump or a measured pour instead.

The body matters for heat and for cleaning. A bottle with a wide mouth can actually be washed; one with a narrow neck cannot. Keep them with the cruets and condiment sets on the table and the gastronorm containers they are filled from.

Working out how many bottles and which tips a line needs? Ask for the price guide and order the bodies and the spare tips in the same go.

These are the top FAQs for Commercial Sauce Bottles

What nozzle size suits which sauce?

A fine tip for anything thin enough to run: jus, oil, a thin glaze. A wide tip for mayonnaise, aioli and anything with body. A thick sauce through a fine tip means squeezing hard and then a blow-out.

Buy a couple of tip sizes and keep the spares, because the tip is what gets lost. See commercial sauce warmers and dispensers for hot sauce held at the pass.

Can a squeeze bottle hold a hot sauce?

That depends on the plastic and its stated temperature rating, which is on the product page rather than being general to squeeze bottles. Standard bottles are for cold and ambient use.

For hot sauce held through a service, use a warmer rather than a bottle. See commercial sauce warmers and dispensers and hot bain marie displays.

How do I stop a bottle clogging?

Strain the sauce before it goes in, and use a tip wide enough for what is in it. Most clogs are a solid particle in a sauce that was never passed through a sieve.

A conical strainer before filling fixes it almost completely. Keep a pin or a brush at the station for the tip itself.

Should bottles be labelled and dated?

Yes, both. A row of identical white bottles is a food safety problem and a consistency problem, because nobody knows which is older.

Label the body, not the cap, since caps get swapped. See kitchen food labels for the dissolvable and removable options.

How are squeeze bottles cleaned properly?

Apart. Cap, tip and body separately, with a bottle brush through the neck, because a rinsed bottle keeps a film of old sauce at the shoulder.

Most go through a commercial dishwasher disassembled and in a rack; the product page states it. See dishwashing accessories for the brushes.

Clear or coloured bottles?

Clear, almost always, because you can see the level and the condition of what is in it. Coloured bodies are for light-sensitive oils and for colour-coding by station.

If you colour-code, keep it consistent with the rest of the kitchen's system — the same logic as colour-coded chopping boards.

How many should a line hold?

One per sauce in service, plus a full spare set so a bottle can be swapped out and washed properly rather than topped up. Topping up is how a bottle never gets cleaned.

They are cheap enough to double up. For bulk decanting, see commercial mixing bowls and preserving jars.