Frozen Dessert Industry & Machine Articles — carpigiani

  Did you know Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar? Ice Cream has been around for centuries. Ice cream does contain quite a bit of sugar. However, in moderation, ice cream provides some surprising health benefits. Here are the top 3 health benefits:   1.) Key Vitamins and Minerals Up to 10% of your daily dietary allowance in calcium and phosphorous can be found in just half a cup of Ice Cream. Ice cream also contains vitamins A, C, D and E, as well as thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folate and vitamins B-6 and B-12....

A 115Volt Ice Cream Machine is an easy to use, low maintenance, and universal machine great for your small businesses. Most businesses are equipped with 115V amp space. These machines are designed for small volume. However, they have a longer recovery time. Recovery time is the amount of time it takes the machine to chill the new product. For example, a 115V machine cannot do five, four oz servings back to back without recovery time. Here are some pro’s and con’s of the 115V Machine: Pros: Cheap and quick way to add another menu item Great way to see if...

The Taylor 161 is great for establishments that want to add frozen desserts to their menu but with a small footprint. Its small size, electrical requirements, and price make it versatile. Great for operators who want to see if this great profit maker will work for their concept. From gas stations to cafes, the Taylor 161 frozen yogurt machine is a great foot in the door. Machine Maintenance  The machine comes with three different types of flavors. Two single flavors are dispensed from the end spouts while a single "swirl" option of which both of the flavors from the end...

In both gravity and pump fed soft serve machines, there are hoppers or cabinets used to hold your product before traveling to the  freezing cylinder. Both gravity and pressurized machines use overrun. The gravity fed machine uses air tubes and the pressurized machine uses pumps. However a gravity fed machine can never reach the same volume and overrun of a pressurized machine.Gravity fed soft serve machines use gravity to feed the product mix into the cylinder while pump fed machines use pressurized pumps to push mix inside the freezing cylinders. With either option, you have pros & cons to each...

We frequently get asked about what frozen dessert equipment we have to offer & how our machines help each individual business owner increase profits in their specific industry. The following are types of ice cream machines and more that we offer at Slices Concession: 1. Soft Serve / Frozen Yogurt Machines  Soft serve machines make a type of ice cream that is softer than regular ice cream due to the infusion of air in the freezing process. Frozen Yogurt is made yogurt & sometimes with other dairy based products. Frozen yogurt has no minimum fat requirement which can be made...