What Is an Ice Maker?
An ice maker is a machine designed to automatically produce ice for homes, offices, restaurants, and commercial businesses. Unlike traditional freezer trays, ice makers can create ice quickly and continuously with minimal effort.
Refrigerator Ice Vs Ice Maker Ice: What’s the Difference?
In Refrigerator, traditional system used to make ice, Water is manually filled in trays and then settled in refrigerator for hours after that you will get few irregular shape of ice cubes. Whereas, in Ice maker ice has been made much easily within minutes and it produce ice on much larger scale as compare to that on Refrigerator. In Ice Maker Water is usually filled in large reservoir or a continuous supply of Water is connected to the Ice Machine and as the button turns on within minutes ice of every kind Nuggets, Pebble, Soft and Chewy has been made with out any hassle.
Types of Ice Maker:
Ice Maker comes in Different types depends on your usage, production capcity and area to install. Here are Some of the Most Common Types of Ice Maker:
Countertop Ice Maker:
Countertop Ice Maker or Portable Ice maker is small Compatable Machine can be used anywhere, no need to make special area for this. It is mostly placed at kitchen Counter. It has a small water reservoir capable of making instant ice within minutes as you turn the switch on.
Undercounter Ice Maker:
Undercounter Ice Makers are machine-built to fit under counter and is mostly used in offices and restaurant. It is perfect for space saving and is mostly used where a continuous supply of ice is needed.
Nuggets Ice Maker:
A nugget ice maker is a type of ice machine that produces small, soft, and chewable ice pieces known as nugget ice. This ice is also sometimes called “pebble ice” or “Sonic ice” because of its popularity in soft drinks and restaurants. A nugget ice maker first freezes water into thin layers of ice. Then, it scrapes and compresses the ice flakes into small soft pellets. This process creates ice that is slightly crunchy but easy to chew.
