It’s the hottest time of the year! Cliché. 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.

Another type of ice cream that’s become more popular nowadays is the soft serve ice cream. Does it mean that the regular ice cream is hard? We have to be acquainted with a soft serve ice cream machine more to better know how to use it. You can read up and learn more about this machine:

Soft serve is a kind of ice cream, yoghurt, 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 you can add 25% of air to a gallon of ice cream, that makes it 1.25 gallons of ice cream. High temperature and air makes the ice cream creamier all throughout the mix. Air allows for soft serve machines to use not much 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. When this is set, the  soft ice cream machine automatically adapt to whatever mix is used. Moreover, there is a low-mix light that tells when to fill again the mix hopper. Other machines also have an audible signal which will allow you to add another mix.

A great soft serve machine will have a safety feature that will protect you from any 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. A great function is also that of protecting the compressor from hot refrigerant gas that may make the ice cream freeze solidly.

When choosing soft serve machines, the capacity must be ensured depending on the desired volume of ice cream to be produced in every setting. Usually, machines are measured in volumes. The high volume can make up to 7 servings while the medium volume can serve up to 4-5 servings and the low volume can take care of 2-3 servings.

As to energy consumption, soft serve machines 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. Soft serve ice cream can go with root beer or banana split for a refreshing dessert. Whatever is your choice, walk under the sun and get cool down with soft ice cream. Happy eating.

 

 

 

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