Food ice has a strong effect Ice machines are also needed for production

Edible ice is a kind of object that can be seen everywhere in daily life and often ignored. Think about buying iced milk tea and seeing the clerk fill it with square ice cubes; Coffee shops often offer sugar cubes and ice cubes; When you go out for a buffet, seafood is often served on a pile of ice. … The production of these various types of edible ice requires ice machines.

Usually the ice machine has a refrigeration system, when the water flow through the refrigeration system can be transformed into a specified thickness of ice, and then deice treatment with high pressure hot gas. According to the different principles of the evaporator and the generation process, the shape of the generated ice is also different. According to the shape of the ice produced, ice makers can be divided into square ice makers, snow ice makers, pellet bullet ice makers, tube ice makers, edible sheet ice makers, plate ice makers, shell ice makers, etc.

Different shapes of ice are suitable for different dining places and have different functions. The shape of the ice produced by the tube ice machine is not regular, and it is empty tube in length, which is not easy to melt, so it is suitable for food preservation in supermarkets, cafeterias, fishing boats and other places; The ice produced by the ice machine can directly contact with sashimi and other daily food, suitable for use in seafood shops, sushi restaurants and other places; The ice cubes seen in milk tea shops, coffee shops and other places are mostly cubes, and adding such ice cubes to drinks has a good effect in terms of aesthetics and cooling effect.
 

The speed of production of the ice machine is critical. Take milk tea shops, in the summer cold drink outbreak period, basically each cup of milk tea needs three to four ice cubes, and the consumption of ice cubes is very huge. Commercial ice makers need to meet the huge amount of ice in a short period of time for these catering companies, and they need to speed up production. It is reported that some businesses install a cavity compartment ice evaporator for the ice machine, which has a higher refrigeration efficiency and can greatly improve the amount of ice produced.

The thermal insulation effect of the ice machine is also worth mentioning, and for some store locations, there is a significant difference in passenger traffic in a day. Like the milk tea shop around the school, the lunch dinner will usher in the peak period, and the owner often needs to reserve some ice cubes in advance, and whether the reserve ice cubes are melted is closely related to the insulation effect of the ice machine. It is reported that in order to enhance the thermal insulation effect of the ice maker, some enterprises try to increase the stainless steel polyurethane foam on the evaporator, the box is used as a non-fluorinated foam insulation layer, and the pipeline is also used as a thermal insulation treatment equipment to promote the improvement of the thermal insulation effect of the equipment.

Ice makers produce edible ice, which is usually added directly to food, so food safety issues need to be noted. Generally speaking, the ice machine has two aspects of food safety hazards, one is the water intake tank if the water for a long time accumulation may produce scale, fungus, some businesses try to use the float water system in the water tank part, to a greater extent to ensure that there is no residual water. Another is that water flow through the water pipe may leave scale, ice storage box to contact with people, so usually businesses recommend that all parts of the ice machine need to be cleaned every two weeks.
 

Take the cube ice maker that milk tea shops often have access to, the author has seen a clerk shovel off the ice cube that sticks to a square after the ice maker produces ice. This phenomenon may be caused by the ice machine itself is not allowed to control the amount of water; It may also be that there is a problem with the compressor, and the high pressure hot gas discharged is not enough or uneven. The specific problems need to be further investigated and repaired. In addition, in order to strengthen the production safety of the ice machine, most ice machine manufacturers are equipped with ice full and water shortage automatic reminder and shutdown device for the ice machine, so that users can understand the production status of the ice machine in time.

2017 data show that China's commercial ice machine market size reached more than 800 million, exports close to 200 million, but the per capita ice machine ownership and foreign countries have dozens of times the gap, China's ice machine industry still has huge space for development. To this end, China's ice machine manufacturers also need to grasp the needs of users, speed up the improvement of ice machine equipment, and boost the ice machine to obtain a larger market.