Why Ice Machine should be kept Clean

Feb. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Nowadays there are special ice makers available in the market which has automatic cleaning features. These features are automatic cleaning of ice machine water filter; self rinsing of the surface which comes in contact with ice and number of other automatic cleaning features. One can choose between the automatic and manually driven machines depending upon that he or she wants to clean them in traditional way of cleaning or very easily.
Whenever your machine becomes dirty the amount of ice it produces goes low and sometimes they also make some foul sound. In this piece of writing we will discuss about number of problems of ice machines and the ways to get rid of them. The machine should be rinsed thoroughly in order to make it free from algae, deposits of the minerals from the water and slime. The walls of machine can be cleaned by using a simple detergent or any dish cleaner. But one should always take care while taking out ice from the machine.
While fetching ice from machine one should use clean or sanitized hands and clean ice scope and left it open when not in use. Always check water filters of water cooled ones and air filter of air cooled ones at least thrice on a month or once in a week and clean them thoroughly every time. Remove all the small and dirty ice cubes.
Basically most of the problems are associated with the ones which have water cooled system. May be the water which is required to cool down the machine is not entering it in correct amount. Try to keep the filter clean so that you won’t face this problem again and again because this not only alters the efficiency of your ice machine but also alters its life.