What is the difference between a snowflake ice machine for catering and a laboratory snowflake ice machine?

1. What is the difference between the snowflake ice machine for catering and the laboratory snowflake ice machine?
Ice machines for catering generally produce ice cubes, bullet ice, etc. When the ice is formed, it is formed in a ready-made fixed mold; in terms of hardware, the snowflake ice machine must have a complete set of refrigeration equipment. In addition to the system, a set of motor-driven ice blade system is also required for ice crushing. The ice blades are always running to continuously scrape out the ice formed in the ice chamber and squeeze it into irregular crushed ice. Therefore, in terms of hardware cost, the manufacturing cost of the snowflake ice machine will be much higher than that of the catering ice machine due to the addition of a complete set of motor and ice blade system.
2. Why are snowflake ice machines so cheap on Taobao?
Most of the ice machines on Taobao are for catering purposes, that is, cube or bullet-shaped ice, so the price will be relatively low, but if you search for the products displayed by "Snowflake Ice Machine", you can also see The price will be much higher than other types of ice machines, mainly due to the difference in hardware costs.
3. What is the difference between imported brands and domestic brands of snowflake ice machines?
From a technical point of view, there is no gap between imported brands and domestic brands. Refrigeration technology is very mature and has a long history of commercialization;
From the perspective of hardware, the compressors and motors used by foreign brands, in addition to some of their own brands, the hardware of other ice machine brands is almost found in OEM compressors and motors of the best brands or directly purchased, and, The vast majority of hardware manufacturers have joint venture or wholly-owned production plants in China, so there is no gap in hardware;
From the perspective of comprehensive quality control, foreign brands have certain advantages. After all, the brand has a long history, large capital and scale, and stronger technical means;
Domestic brands generally have advantages over imported brands in terms of price and convenience of after-sales service;
To sum up, most users tend to buy snowflake ice machines in favor of domestic brands, and cost performance is the most important factor.