Ice cream machine, also known as intermittent freezer, is an automatic equipment specially designed for producing frozen dessert-ice cream. Ice cream machines can be divided into large freezers used in factory assembly lines, commercial ice cream machines used in catering industry and household ice cream machines used in families according to their uses. Household ice cream machines do not contain any electromechanical parts, which will not be discussed here. Only commercial ice cream machines used in restaurants are discussed here.

Ice cream is a volume-expanding frozen food made of drinking water, milk, milk powder, cream (or plant fat) and cream sugar, with appropriate food additives, and processed by mixing, sterilization, homogenization, aging, freezing and hardening. It tastes delicate, smooth and cool.

Ice cream, also known as ice cream, milk cake, bean cake and fried ice cubes. There are many kinds and patterns, but its production method is nothing more than using milk or dairy products, eggs or egg products, sweeteners, flavoring agents, stabilizers and food pigments as raw materials. It is an important part of cold drinks in summer, has a certain health care effect on human body, and is a good food to cool off summer heat.