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Advantages Of Using Ice Machines In The Catering Business

By: Anna Stenning

The advantages of having ice machines in a bar or at home is that you are guaranteed freshly made ice cubes in a matter of minutes or seconds. For people running a bar or restaurant, it is important to have one of these machines to keep the customers happy when serving up drinks on a busy night. As much as people find it fun to freeze up their own ice cubes, ice machines make it that much more efficient, with some machines producing as much as 10kg of ice per hour!

Bars and pubs all use ice machines on a daily basis. For fast serving and keeping up with the demands of the customers it is important that the machines keep on churning out ice constantly throughout the day without problems, therefore machine maintenance is another thing to consider when installing them. Buying bags of ice is simply not a convenient way of stocking up on ice cubes, because this does not guarantee that the number of bags you have in stock is going to be enough for the entire evening.

But these machines are not just useful for bars and restaurants because people at home are also able to benefit from using these. Portable machines are good for home installation, producing up to 2kg of ice cubes per hour, which is great for dinner parties and small gatherings during the summer months. Portable machines are designed so that they can easily be transferred from place to place, so if you are planning a boat trip or holiday away in a caravan then you can pack one of these without worrying about it taking up too much space.

Table top ice machines are great to keep in the kitchen, because they do not need to be plumbed in and can be filled up manually. These normally cost around 200 pounds or less, making it affordable and accessible to everyone. Having ice machines was once associated with the rich and wealthy, because they were not widely available and many people were not familiar with them.

Both the industrial and domestic machines can churn out various types of ice cubes, such as crystal clear ice cubes, different shaped ice and ultra hard ice cubes. The quality of the ice cube is important for some bars and restaurants. Crystal ice cubes are considered high quality ice cubes, because they are produced through processed moving water, whereas cloudy ice cubes are produced from unprocessed water which hardens very quickly. The latter can produce ultra hard cubes ideal for sculpturing and making small figures which can last for a longer time.

Ice machines can be built-in, plumbed in, placed on a tabletop or come portable. These are now widely used in entertainment centres such bowling alleys and cinemas, whereby customers help themselves to the self service ice machines when purchasing a drink. These have proved to come useful for many establishments, providing cool icy beverages in next to no time.

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Anna Stenning prefers to use ice machines at home during the summer when holding a barbecue party.

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