Have a Cool Summer with a Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine
Summer Can Be So Hot! Everybody knows that. You can enjoy the heat while getting cooled down. The best way for you to cool down is to indulge in some frozen refreshments. You can find no better refreshment than ice cream.
Talking about ice cream, there is a new one that is getting popular in ads- soft ice cream. So, the traditional one is hard? To find out more about soft ice cream, let us explore the machine through which it is made-soft serve ice cream machine. Read on and know its features.
Soft serve is a kind of ice cream, yogurt, custard and the like which are not hard frozen. To achieve this, there are soft serve machines that add air to the ice cream, adding to its volume up to 45%. If 25% of air is added to one gallon of ice cream, that means 1.25 gallons of ice cream. The combination of higher temperature and more air creates creamier consistency to the mix. Because of air, soft serve machines will minimize the use of ingredients.
These machines are cool as well as its features. These machines have built in containers that can store, mix, churn, and freeze soft ice cream which it can dispense as well. Some have LED displays that allow you to set your preferred time and monitor the consistency of the product. Once set, the machine will automatically adapt to the mix used. There is also a low mix indicator that tells you when to refill the mix hopper. Other types have an audible signal which tells you to add more mix.
Soft serve machines have safety mechanism that guards against compressor burnout. This mechanism allows the compressor to shut down if you don’t detect the low-mix alarm within few minutes. But the compressor will cycle after each 10 minutes to keep the ice cream cold until another is added to the mix. Other mechanism includes shooting hot refrigerant gas from the condenser to the barrel to avoid the ice cream from freezing solidly.
You have to choose a soft serve ice cream machine that can hold enough ice cream you need to produce in every setting. These machines’ capacity is usually measured in volumes. Those that have high volume can hold up to 7 servings, the medium ones 4-5, as the low volume machines can hold 2-3.
As to energy consumption, a soft ice cream machine with small capacity generally use up 115 volts while the larger ones consume 208-230 volts.
Once the mix has turned into soft ice cream, it is now ready to be served in a cone or bowl. It can also be matched in root beers or banana split desserts. Whatever is your choice, walk under the sun and get cool down with soft ice cream. Happy eating.
