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What You Need To Know To Open An Ice Cream Shop?
Ice cream is a very popular frozen dessert. It comes in many colors and cute shapes. Summer is the peak season for selling ice cream, and it is loved by men, women, and children. So many people want to start an ice cream business. Before you start it, we need to understand the types of ice cream. First, let's define the most common ice cream, a frozen dessert must meet the following requirements to call itself an ice cream.
- The product must contain 20% cream and 10% milk.
- Milkfat and butterfat must exceed 10%.
- The overrun ratio shall not exceed 100%, that is to say, the air entering the ice cream during the stirring process shall not exceed 50% of the total volume（Generally the overrun ratio of high-end ice cream is about 25%, and the general one will reach 50% or even 90%.）
In such a base, the flavors of fruit, coffee, chocolate, and matcha are mixed, and nuts, biscuits, and other ingredients are added, and it becomes the colorful ice cream we usually eat.
Ice Cream types
1. Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Liquid nitrogen ice cream is to pour liquid nitrogen into the stirred ice cream liquid and freeze it to minus 196 degrees in an instant. Because the normal air pressure is not enough to keep the liquid nitrogen in a liquid state, the liquid nitrogen will liquefy and absorb heat, and the ice cream liquid will quickly condense. Molecular cuisine has become very popular in recent years, and liquid nitrogen ice cream is one of them. Because this series of production processes are physical changes at the molecular level. Its taste will be very silky, without any ice slag.
2. Snow Ice
Compared with other ice creams, snow ice does not have any stirring process in the process of ice making, but freezes it into cubes and then uses a special ice shaver to slice it into thin slices and pile them up layer by layer. Because the layers are thin, it tastes dense and melts in your mouth.
3. Slush
Slush is a dessert that is easily confused with sorbet in English. Its ingredients are basically the same as sorbet, but there is no stirring process like snow ice, it is just frozen in a pan and then scraped off a little bit. Generally speaking, slush contains more ice crystals and has a rougher taste.
4. Roll Ice Cream
Authentic roll ice cream originated in Thailand, and it is a very popular dessert in the local area. With the word of mouth among tourists from all over the world, it is gradually becoming popular all over the world. Some friends may wonder how the ice is rolling. In fact, it is simpler to replace the stove under the iron plate with a refrigerator to fry it. First, pour in and chop and mix all the ingredients and stir fry again and again, then spread it into a pancake shape, and finally shovel it into an ice roll, and the roll ice cream is complete.
5. Gelato
The main differences between gelato and ice cream are fat content, air content, and temperature.
Gelato has a lower fat content, typically around 3.8%, because the recipe contains less cream and more milk. Therefore, girls, it is relatively not easy to gain weight by eating gelato.
Because of the low churning speed, the gelato has a lower air content, resulting in a denser mouthfeel than regular ice cream. Despite being low in fat and air, gelato is still very soft. This is because its storage temperature is higher than that of ordinary ice cream. As a result, gelato is also easier to give people a melt-in-your-mouth feeling.
6. Soft-serve
The biggest feature of soft-serve is its softness. The ice cream we often get in fast food shops and squeezed onto the come from the machine is generally soft-serve. In terms of ingredients, soft-serve and ice cream are basically the same, but soft serve contains more air and is, therefore, lighter and softer.
In order to avoid the formation of ice crystals, soft serve is actually frozen at the moment of sale. When the staff starts to operate the machine, the raw material in the machine will enter the freezing chamber together with a certain amount of air to be stirred and quickly frozen. Because the main work is done by machines, most fast food shops sell this ice cream.
7. Frozen Yogurt
Frozen yogurt, or Fro-yo for short, is an ice cream whose main ingredient is yogurt, and its texture and taste are closer to ice cream. Because yogurt is used, the fat content is relatively low, and it also contains lactic acid bacteria, which may have a certain sour taste. Frozen yogurt on the market is generally not as sweet as ordinary ice cream. Those who don’t like it too sweet can try it. Yogurt ice cream can be made soft and hard, and the taste is also very rich. When eating, you can also add various ingredients such as fruit, chocolate, biscuits, candy, syrup, and so on.
8. Another dessert like ice cream
Frozen Custard
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) definition, frozen cream must contain more than 10% milk fat and more than 1.4% egg yolk. Frozen Cream is frozen before serving, so it will not freeze hard, and the taste is close to soft serve. Therefore, this dessert is more suitable for eating in restaurants.
The Purchase of Ice Cream Shop Equipment
After learning about the types of ice cream, we need to understand the equipment needed in the ice cream shop.
- Necessary equipment: ice cream machine, ice crusher, smoothie machine, water machine, sealing machine, coffee machine, ice maker (at least 40 kg), freezer, storage or fresh-keeping workbench, induction cooker, and other equipment. Blast furnace and microwave.
- Optional hot and cold drink machine, snow machine, popcorn machine, sausage machine, cup machine, ice cream machine.
- Related tools and utensils such as cups, plates, bartenders, ice cream scoops, ice buckets, ice scrapers, measuring cups, ice cream cups, juice cups, coffee cups, etc.
- Related raw materials such as ice cream powder, concentrated fruit juice, jam, chocolate powder, milk powder, cream, chocolate needles, wafer bread, canned fruit, fresh fruit, cream, sugar, honey, condensed milk, brown sugar, etc.
For the production of soft ice cream in various flavors.
It is used to produce ice cream of various flavors.
Ice Cream Refrigerator Showcase
It used to display and sell ice cream of various flavors in the store.
Use for crispy eggs to make ice cream cones or crispy.
Single-cylinder Electric Blast Furnace (electric fryer)
For all kinds of fried food, necessary when frying ice cream.
Used to make ice cubes, and make all kinds of cold drinks, ice cubes can quickly reduce the indoor temperature. The slurry when preparing ice cream slurry makes the taste of ice cream production better.
For making smoothies, and milkshakes, for making ice cream solid mixed raw materials, crushing various solid materials into mud or juice.
Essential equipment for ice cream parlors and kitchen bars
The above is the equipment needed to open an ice cream shop. It is very important that we can choose the appropriate equipment according to the type of ice cream we sell. In addition to knowing the knowledge about ice cream, an important part of opening an ice cream shop is the interior decoration and design of the ice cream shop. On our website, there are a lot of ice cream shop designs, they are all very popular styles in 2022. We can design a suitable store style according to your store size and type of ice cream.
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