The snowflake ice maker is a device specifically designed to produce irregularly shaped, fine granular ice. Its core working principle involves using internal rotating ice blades to scrape and expel the ice layer that has solidified on the inner wall of the low-temperature evaporator, thereby achieving automatic separation of ice and water.

The difference between laboratory snowflake ice maker and restaurant-grade ice makers:

Restaurant-grade ice makers typically produce ice cubes, ice packs, etc., with the ice formed in pre-made, fixed molds. In contrast, a snow-flake ice maker, in addition to a complete refrigeration system, requires a motor-driven ice blade system for crushing the ice. The ice blades continuously scrape and compress the ice formed in the ice chamber into irregularly shaped pieces. Therefore, from a hardware cost perspective, snow-flake ice makers are significantly more expensive to manufacture than restaurant-grade ice makers due to the additional motor and ice blade system.

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