With the approach of summer, cold drinks become the main product of summer milk tea stores, that naturally is not without ice.The role of "ice" not only allows milk tea to cool quickly, but more importantly, it can affect the inner taste of milk tea, giving you a different milk tea experience - "chilled" will really be more delicious! It's better！

Of course, there are shapes of ice cubes in milk tea stores, so what shape of ice cubes make better tea drinks? What type of ice machine is more suitable for your store? Next let's explore together.

What shape of ice is suitable for milk tea store?

A cup of cold drink products, to ensure its icy and taste, are related to the shape of the ice, so what shape of ice is suitable for what type of products?

Ice machines on the market produce ice in the shape of square ice, crescent ice, gourmet ice, flake ice, etc. The most used in milk tea stores are square ice and crescent ice, which are more suitable for tea drinks than other shapes of ice.

Generally, there are two types of cold drinks in milk tea stores, one is milk tea or fruit tea with ice directly, and the other is made into smoothies.

The main reason for adding ice directly is to enhance the taste of the product and add freshness to it, but for a drink to maintain a certain taste and freshness for a period of time after it is produced, crescent ice is the most suitable. Moon ice is solid ice, which has the characteristics of being long-lasting and slow to melt, so it can maintain the original taste of the product for a longer period of time without being diluted.

Smoothie series products are generally put together with fruit and ice, beaten with ice with a smoothie machine until blended, and then added to jam or other food products, which require a more dense and delicate texture, so it is more suitable to use square ice. Square ice is hollow ice, compared to crescent ice, square ice is easier to break to dense, and better blended with fruit.

The 5 major effects of ice on milk tea

Ice is very useful for milk tea, so it is very important to choose the right ice for your store. Now let's talk about what are the effects of ice on milk tea!

1.Lock the aroma of tea

Adding ice to a cup of freshly brewed tea can make it cool quickly. The aroma factor in the tea is less active in the low temperature environment, so it can make the tea keep its fragrance for a period of time and play the role of locking the fragrance of tea.

2.Eliminate bitterness

Bitter milk tea can be eliminated by adding sugar and milk to remove the bitterness, but only in moderation, otherwise too sweet and greasy will also be identified as a drink that is not of good quality. This is where the usefulness of ice comes into play. Adding ice cubes to the drink can make the drink chill quickly to cut the bitterness of the tea. So when the tea is too bitter and astringent you can add ice cubes to the cup instead of adding too much sugar.

3.Freshness and antibacterial

The reason why the refrigerator can keep the food fresh is because in the low-temperature environment, various fungi and bacteria activity is reduced, the speed of food decay will be correspondingly slowed down, and the material is easier to preserve. Then add ice to the drink can preserve freshness and inhibit bacteria, the principle is also the same. As mentioned in the previous article, adding ice can lock the aroma of tea and lock the flavor, the low temperature bacterial activity is weaker, the ability to differentiate is also weaker, and thus the formation of odor is greatly reduced. And add ice to the drink at low temperatures, it is easier to keep fresh, the appearance will also look more beautiful.

4.The right temperature to make the delicious longer

Each kind of food will have its inherent characteristics of the most suitable temperature, too high or too low will affect the materiality of the food. Therefore, generally do hot drinks, will also participate in the appropriate ice to cool down. And the temperature is too high will reduce the ability of the human palate to distinguish, the absorption of the human body is also hindered.

5. To achieve aesthetic creativity

In making some layered drinks, it is easier to make layered effects with ice dilution because of the density of ice cubes. For example, in a snow-topped milk tea or a milk tea with cookies, pearls and other garnishes on the top layer, without ice to fill in between the garnishes and the milk tea, the top layer will easily collapse and the layering effect will not be achieved. Therefore ice plays a very important role in the drink.

And to get ice, an ice machine is one of the necessary equipment for a beverage store!

Types of ice machines

In the process of milk tea store operation, ice is an indispensable ingredient. You can choose to have an ice plant provide the ice or use a refrigerator to freeze it. However, for a large sales volume milk tea store, these two methods are obviously not ideal when the milk tea sales are at their peak, so the use of ice machines to produce ice is naturally convenient and efficient. So an ice machine is one of the necessary equipment for a milk tea store.

What size should I buy when I purchase one? There are large and small ice machines for milk tea stores, and there are various types of products. Many people do not know how to choose one that is suitable for their use. The following describes the 3 types of ice machines commonly used in milk tea stores for your referen