How to use a portable ice maker at home?
Many homes now have added a portable ice machine in their list of household gadget belongings. From helping with quickly whipping up a batch of lemon ice teas for your family to satisfying the surprise guests who stepped in from the sweltering summer heat, an ice machine finds many uses in a household. We have come up with a list of best ways you can use a portable ice machine at home so you can understand the full potential of an ice maker.
5 Best Ways To Use A Portable Ice Machine At Home
Portable ice machines are easy to carry ice machines that can produce a decent quantity of ice for household needs. Have a look at the best ways to use a portable ice machine at home:
1 - Instant chill your beverages
Have a party of four at your house? Did you invite your kid’s friends to play over at your house this summer? Well serving some ice cold beverages not only helps beat the heat, it has also become a standard offering for house guests. That’s right hot tea has been replaced with iced tea, coffee has been replaced with cold coffee. And you already know people’s craze for a glass of cold juice. After all who doesn’t like an iced beverage right?!
Often at home we need to wait for the mercy of the refrigerator to make ice. A refrigerator takes anywhere between 1 to 2 hours to make a batch of ice cubes. Well, when your kids ask you for an ice beverage after coming from football practice, are they going to wait 2 hours to so they can drink their calming beverage?! Definitely not.
This is where an ice machine comes to the rescue. Ice machine takes just 5- 12 minutes to make a single batch of ice. Depending on the ice machine you can at least make four glasses of iced tea with a single batch. You can switch on your ice maker and then proceed to gathering the glasses, tea bags and other ingredients.
In just 5 minutes you will have a fresh batch of ice ready to be dumped into the glasses. By the time your kids have freshened up you will have a perfect glass of iced tea ready for them to gulp. This is also a perfect machine to serve iced drinks to your house guests. Even if you don’t have food to offer them, an iced beverage can do the trick.
2 - Food Storage & Preservation
Let’s say you want to go by the fishing port this Sunday morning to get a fresh catch of fish to prepare a mouth watering lunch. But the port is a couple of hours away from your house and by the time you get back you are worried the fish might be spoiled if it is not in a box with ice in it.
You have an ice box that would be perfect to carry the fish but where will you get a large quantity of ice. Your refrigerator is certainly not up to the task of producing 10 pounds of ice for your ice box. So what do you do?
This is when you think about an ice machine. A portable ice machine can produce anywhere between 25 to 40 pounds of ice cubes in a day. In under 15 minutes your first pound of ice is ready to be transferred to your ice box. With most ice maker machines you can store up to 2 pounds of ice in its bin.
So, can you finally go to the fishing port to get the fresh catch of the day? Absolutely. Switch on the ice maker machine in the morning as soon as you wake up. Lets say you need 10 pounds of ice for your ice box which means that you will need about two hours to get this done.
Keep checking when the ice bin of the portable ice maker is full once in 15 minutes. Keep transferring the ice to the ice box until you get your whole 10 pounds. Now you are ready to shop fish.
Ice maker machines like Garvee’s Stainless steel nugget ice maker allows you to schedule your ice making. This means that you don’t even have to go through the pain of dragging yourself all the way from your bedroom to kitchen just to switch on the ice machine.
Garvee’s machine enables you to set up a particular time when you want it to start producing ice cubes. So before you sleep, you can schedule the ice maker to start making ice cubes in 8 hours. You would only need to keep an eye out for the bin full indicator on the machine and empty the ice bin to your ice box.
3 - Fulfilling ice needs of a house party
People love to invite their friends and family over to occasional dinners, barbeques, cocktail nights, etc. You know for these social gatherings food and drinks keep flowing. This has become quite common in all parts of the world.
Iced sodas, tea, juice and cocktails are favorites for all house parties. You might have heard people say mixers get over quicker than the alcohol. Well this is also true for ice. Ice gets over instantly. When you 15 people you would need more than 10 pounds of ice. Because before you know it all your ice bags will be empty from all the iced water and iced drinks guests have been drinking all evening.
Say you have invited 12 people over to your house for food and drinks. At least seven people are in the habit of finishing their drinks quickly. All of them are repeating their requests for ice water. Well in this case an ice maker works wonders at handling all the needs.
Since it can make about 6-8 ice cubes in a minute you can work the ice machine throughout the party until the guests leave. You will even have some ice leftover in the ice bin to make a drink for yourself to relax after all the fun.
4 - Emergency Preparedness
We all tend to have workout injuries, muscle cramps, etc. In most of these cases it is recommended that we apply a cold pack to the affected region immediately. This helps reduce the swelling and numb the pain.
Many usually grab whatever packed they can find in the freezer to apply on the injury. But this cannot stay cool for longer. It is also not cool enough to have an effect on the injury. An ice machine can help you with this easily.
It can make a fresh batch of ice in minutes. Simply grab a towel and put the ice cubes in it. A homemade ice pack is ready for use. You can keep reapplying the ice routine as required because ice makers can keep producing ice all day. Ice makers that can produce ice cubes of larger sizes can provide longer cooling effect for the home made ice pack.
Ice makers like Garvee’s portable ice maker machine can one cup of nuggets ice in just 6 minutes. It is a countertop ice machine that can be easily stored in the kitchen and is your best companion for emergency ice cube needs. It helps you choose between two shapes of bullet ice; large and small.
Large ice cubes will be best suited for the emergencies like back injuries. Although large ice bullets may take longer to be made than small ice, the former is long lasting and has better cooling properties. It also melts slower than small ice ensuring the longevity of your homemade ice pack.
5 - Home Appliance Backup
One of best ways to use a portable ice machine at home is as a backup for your refrigerator. If you know that the ice maker in the refrigerator is not handling the ice demand of your house it is time to invest in an ice maker machine.
If your family has the habit of coming back home from their work days and drink some ice cold water with the some large ice cubes, ice machine can easily handle all the needs. Even if somebody dumps half a pound of ice into one drink, there will still be enough ice for the rest of the family.
As already mentioned, ice maker machines are immensely useful while hosting parties, soirees and the like. Keeping up with the ice demand of a small crowd is primary goal of a portable ice machine designed for a household. An ice maker machine is the perfect companion to your refrigerator in producing fresh ice.
As the name suggests, portable means you can take it anywhere. Help out your friend’s party. Carry it on your RV for your camping trip to enjoy iced beverages looking at the sunset.
An ice machine is one stop shop for all your ice needs. Soon you will forget your refrigerator and will be switching on ice machine for ice. Because instead of being sparse with the ice you can use as many as you want because you ice machine can produce multiple batches at a moment’s notice.
Garvee has a range of ice machines that can fit the bill for a wide variety of purposes. These portable countertop ice machines produce bullet and nugget ice that suit different needs. Garvee’s nugget ice maker produces soft chewable ice, perfect for people who likes to chew on ice cubes while they drink their ice beverage.
It is also best suited for families who feed their pets a pieces of ice to cool them down. This practice especially is a routine for pet parents who own large and furry dog breeds and furry cats. Many pets love to eat ice pieces throughout the day to bring down their body heat and stop panting.
Garvee’s ice machines sport stainless steel enclosure and self cleaning modes giving it durability. The self cleaning mode ensure that the ice machine is clean and has drained out all excess water stuck in the machines. These are energy saving machines with eco-friendly features which helps to regulate power consumption.
