How does the Silicone ball ice tray achieve fast freezing and ensure ice quality?
Publish Time: 2024-11-05
The reason why the Silicone ball ice tray can achieve fast freezing and ensure ice quality is mainly due to the following factors.
First, the silicone material itself has good thermal conductivity. Although silicone is a relatively soft material, it can still effectively transfer heat in a low-temperature environment. Compared with traditional plastic ice trays, silicone can transfer the low temperature of the surrounding environment to the water inside the ice tray more quickly, accelerating the cooling and freezing process of the water. Moreover, the heat conduction characteristics of silicone materials are uniform, which allows the water in the ice tray to cool down synchronously as a whole, avoiding the problem of uneven internal structure of ice cubes caused by partial freezing first.
Secondly, the design structure of the Silicone ball ice tray also contributes to fast freezing. Its spherical design increases the contact area between the ice tray and the freezing environment. In the freezer of the refrigerator, cold air can flow more fully around the curved surface of the Silicone ball ice tray, making heat exchange more efficient. At the same time, many Silicone ball ice trays have some subtle textures or concave-convex designs on the surface of the ball, which increase the surface area of the ice tray to a certain extent, further improve the heat exchange efficiency and speed up the freezing speed.
In terms of ensuring the quality of ice cubes, the chemical stability and low water absorption of silicone materials are the key. Silicone will not react chemically with water, which ensures that the ice cubes will not be contaminated and maintain the original purity of the water. Moreover, the low water absorption of silicone means that during the freezing process, the water in the ice tray will not be absorbed by the material, resulting in quality problems such as the ice cube volume becoming smaller or cavities. In addition, the high-quality Silicone ball ice tray will strictly control the process accuracy during the production process to ensure the regular shape of the ice tray, so that the ice cubes can be evenly frozen during the molding process, and the density and transparency of the ice cubes can reach a high level, thereby ensuring the quality of the ice cubes, whether it is used for drinking or other scenes that require high-quality ice cubes.
