Holiday Soft Serve Flavors That Totally Sleigh
With the holiday season approaching, it’s important to spice up your menu with some soft serve flavors that will have your customers cone-ing back for more! In this article, we’re going to go over a few soft serve flavors that we think are going to be huge hits this season and will prove to be profitable for your business. #1: PEPPERMINT Number one on our list would have to be PEPPERMINT! One of the most popular flavors of the Christmas season, peppermint is a crowd favorite since people associate it with candy canes. While there are a few peppermint soft serve products on the market, we think the easiest way to create this flavor is by using a neutral soft serve base and then flavoring it with peppermint syrup. Here is a peppermint syrup we found that is made to be combined with soft serve mix, and here is another…
How to Make Your Own Frozen Drinks in a Spaceman Frozen Beverage Machine
A lot of people are used to slushie machines that provide consumers with flavored ice. While that may be nice to enjoy at a street fair, it’s not the most ideal solution for those looking to indulge in frozen cocktails. Imagine a frozen Jack and Coke that was made by adding whiskey and Coca-Cola to shaved ice; the product would eventually melt and become watered down, negatively altering the taste. However, this is NEVER an issue with Spaceman frozen beverage machines. With Spaceman machines, a user adds their mixture to the machine’s hopper, then the freezing cylinder rapidly mixes and freezes the product. What you put in is what you get out, frozen to a perfect consistency slush – either drinkable or spoon-able, up to you. This makes the quality, texture, taste, and consistency superior to any other “slushie” machine on the market. Using a Spaceman frozen beverage machine is…
Choosing The Right Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine for Your Business
Choosing The Right Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine for Your Business When it comes to soft serve ice cream, everybody knows it’s a crowd favorite. It’s creamy, fluffy, and oh-so-rich; how could anyone not love it? Besides it being an indulgent sweet treat, a soft serve ice cream machine could also be a worthy investment for some business owners. Those who own frozen yogurt shops, dessert shops, restaurants, or even bars may benefit from purchasing one of our soft serve machines, but with many options on our site, it may be hard to choose the right one. Continue reading below to find out which Spaceman machine might be suitable for you and your business needs. We will start with our single flavor soft serve ice cream machines. In that lineup, we have our 6236-C, 6236A-C, and our 6210-C. All of these machines are countertop machines, meaning they are not…
What Is the Difference Between Soft Serve and Ice Cream?
We’ve all heard people refer to soft serve as ice cream. Everyone calls Mister Softee ‘The Ice Cream Man’ when they hear his jingle coming down the block, but he’s not technically selling ice cream (unless you count the prepackaged ones on a stick) – he’s selling soft serve ice cream. So, why is it that everyone seems to use these words interchangeably? Well, both are delicious, frosty desserts, that can satisfy your late-night cravings, and both tend to be made with dairy. However, the two treats have features that distinguish them from one another, and it’s not only the fact that one is soft and one is hard. INGREDIENTS Soft serve ice cream and hard ice cream contain essentially the same ingredients; however, they contain different amounts of those ingredients. Both soft and hard ice cream contain cream, milk, sugar, syrup, and/or flavorings. One of the ingredients, butterfat, which…
Why Slushy Machines Are Better Than Blenders
Slushie machines serve as a great investment for restaurants, bars, stadiums, or just about any other high-volume establishment in the food service industry. And although slushie machines are simple to use and provide an excellent ROI, there are still businesses out there that rely on blenders to make frozen drinks and cocktails – we can’t understand why! Continue reading to learn about some of the reasons using a frozen beverage machine to dispense frozen drinks is better option than using a blender. Consistency One of the top reasons using a frozen beverage machine to serve customers frozen drinks is the best option is because of the consistency! With Spaceman machines, you pre-batch your frozen drinks/cocktails (or smoothies, milkshakes, etc.!) before adding the mix to your machine. All mixtures that go into Spaceman machines must be mixed well before being poured into your machine’s hopper. This means that if you’re making…
The Ultimate Guide to Earning More with Your Slushie Machine
Slushie machines are a great addition to any quick-service (QSR) or full-service (FSR) restaurant. While they are often called slushie machines, slush is not the only product that Spaceman machines can produce! In this article, we’re going to focus on one of the most popular products that our customers use our machines for, and that is frozen beverages, more specifically, frozen cocktails. Frozen cocktails can serve as a great way to get a high ROI on your slushie machine, so we’re here to give you a few extra tips and insights on the best ways to earn the most profits possible with your Spaceman machine. 1. Expand Your Menu – Offer Frozen You can’t sell what you don’t have – and it goes without saying, but an awesome way to sell more slushies is by expanding your menu. You’ll get a little more option with a dual-flavor Spaceman machine rather…
The Best Ice Cream Toppings
Soft-serve ice cream is undeniably one of the most delicious desserts on the planet. Whether you get vanilla, chocolate, or any other flavor, the treat is perfect on its own. However, adding toppings to soft serve is one way to take it to the next level. In this article, we’re going to go over the most popular ice cream toppings so that you can give your customers what they really want so they keep returning for more. SPRINKLES The most classic of them all is, of course, sprinkles! Rainbow, chocolate, tricolored, stars, confetti – the list goes on! Sprinkles are a great way to make soft serve more visually appealing and picturesque, and it also provides a new consistency by giving customers a little something to crunch on. HOT FUDGE Mmmm, hot fudge – we can taste it by just thinking about it! Is there anything better than cold, creamy…
How To: Fixing Soft Serve Consistency Issues
In this article we will look at common soft serve consistency issues and provide tips and solutions to fix them quickly. Product is Droopy or Soft If your product tastes okay but it’s too soft and not forming properly, it may be due to: A lack of air circulation around the machine. Make sure your Spaceman machine has a minimum clearance of 6″ on all sides. Worn scraper blades. Check for any wear and tear on your scraper blades which would mean they are not scraping frozen product off the freezing cylinder’s walls properly. Product has sat in the freezing cylinder for too long being spun and beaten. This causes your soft serve to lose some of its air content, AKA ‘overrun’. It also can over beat some of the ingredients such as stabilizers and emulsifiers which are used to give your soft serve mix that nice consistency. To fix…
6 Types of Frozen Desserts
Think a soft serve machine can only produce soft serve ice cream? Well, that’s certainly not the case when it comes to Spaceman soft serve machines! In this article, we will go over the different types of frozen desserts your Spaceman machine can produce and the differences between them all. Soft Serve Ice Cream To start off with the most obvious of them all, our machines are meant to produce soft serve. Soft serve is basically ice cream that is soft. The reason that soft serve is soft is because air is incorporated during the freezing process, giving it a fluffy, light, and creamy texture. Milkshakes Milkshakes are a popular dessert, mainly because they taste like ice cream but they’re even easier to consume. They’re typically made of ice cream and milk, which is what gives them a more liquid and frothy consistency. You can make milkshakes in your Spaceman…
How to Troubleshoot Common Issues With Your Ice Cream Machine
Soft serve machines are great. They’re versatile, they provide us with one of the world’s favorite guilty pleasures, they’re profitable for businesses – the list goes on. There’s no doubt that a soft serve machine could be a good investment, but when you run into mechanical issues, it may have you second-guessing your purchase. We’re here to go over some problems you may encounter while operating your Spaceman soft serve machine, and the simple ways to solve them. The Ice Cream Consistency Is Too Soft or Runny It’s a fact that nobody wants runny soft serve. In the summertime, soft serve already melts quicker than usual, so we don’t want our product coming out runny before it even reaches our customer’s hands. Assuming you are using a pre-packaged mix that has a perfect brix level, the issue is probably your viscosity. If your product was originally good texture, and is…