“ICE-CREAM MAKING” PROFESSIONAL MACHINE. “How much does it cost?”

Answering the most useful question in exhibition fairs .

As confirm that, talking generally, the most important fact that seems to be the main “decision maker factor” still is the price of the machine , never mind the characteristics of it, this is the first question useful eared by customers visiting exhibitions on “Ice Cream”, “Food and Hotel” or “Ho.Re.Ca.” businesses.

Try to imagine: It should be great to get the same results, same effects, same job organization, independently by machine’s brand and size.

No-one of  us would ever invest anymore in the more expensive ones.

Reminding that the purchase of an “Ice-Cream Making Professional  Machine” is not a cost, but an important investment for business, need to remark that prices of machines reflect several characteristics that makes every model different from the other. This, not only in terms of more or less renowned, valuable Brand.

In ice cream and Gelato business, one of the priorities is the guarantee that results of final product really match the expectation of Gelato Makers, respecting the most important aspects of the production process concerned the machine.

They are: the real length of the time of the production cycle, proportioned to the quantity; the negative temperature reached at the end of the production; the final texture of ice cream once it comes out from the machine; the quantity of air that the machine is able to introduce in the final product.

Quality of machine have to be evaluated considering the facts above. After sales service, technical assistance in the area, is another very important fact that participate to chose for one, then for another instead.

Power voltage, electric consumption, cooling system installed on the machine, are other aspects that need to be considered.

All those facts engraves in the cost of the machine creating big differences in the final price.

So that, the right, objective approach, to evaluate ice cream making machines, must to consider all the facts above, pushing us to judge the final price on the bases of “Value for Money” concept, and not on the bases  of the “absolute amount” only.

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