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How to Choose the Right Ice Maker?

Sep. 01, 2020

With the continuous development of the economy and the continuous improvement of the quality of life, people's awareness of the flavor of food is also continuously enhanced. Today ice maker factory is going to introduce you to the ice that can bring you a cool summer. Ice is indispensable in our daily life. Especially in this hot summer, the source of ice is nothing but cold storage, refrigerators, and ice machines. For refrigeration to produce ice, the flavor and shape of the ice cubes produced by them are very different. The safest of them is to produce ice through an ice maker, so how to choose a suitable ice maker is the most important thing.

Flake Ice Machine

Everyone must have heard of ice machines. Today we will have a deeper understanding. The ice maker adopts a refrigeration system, with water as the carrier, and the device that produces ice after passing through a certain device under power is called an ice maker. The ice maker is a kind of refrigeration mechanical equipment that produces ice after water is cooled by the refrigeration system refrigerant through the evaporator. According to the principle of the evaporator and the different production methods, the shape of the ice cubes produced is also different. People generally divide ice machines into pellet ice machines, flake ice machines, plate ice machines, tube ice machines, shell ice machines, etc. according to the ice shape.

Generally speaking, the ice produced by tube ice machines and pellet ice machines is for edible functions, while other ice machines such as flake ice machines, plate ice machines, and block ice machines are for industrial use. So how to choose the right ice maker? Generally speaking, a Chinese restaurant needs 0.5KG ice cubes for each seat, a western restaurant requires 1KG ice cubes for each seat, and a hotel room requires 1KG ice cubes. Pearl milk tea and bubble black tea 1KG ice can be approximately 7-8 cups. Large supermarkets, KFC, etc. generally require several ice machines to meet the supply. This data is for reference only, generally the demand in summer will be greater. Friends in the catering industry can make reasonable choices based on the scale of the store and the forecast of turnover, and determine the daily ice volume required. At the same time, it is also necessary to consider the environmental impact of the ice production volume of the ice machine. Generally, the market indicates how much KG ice maker refers to the daily ice production in a standard environment (ambient temperature 21 degrees, inlet water temperature 10 degrees). When the ice reaches the peak demand season, which is also when the ambient temperature and water temperature are high, the actual ice production will be reduced accordingly, about 70% of the theoretical ice production.