ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Continuous freezers

Have you ever heard of ice cream? Well, the process of making ice cream involves freezing a mixture of cream, sugar and other yummy ingredients. Now, imagine making a very big batch of ice cream to sell in the store. You need a machine to freeze the mixture quickly and continuously so that you can make a lot of ice cream efficiently. That's where continuous freezers come in!

Continuous freezers are machines that freeze food products like ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet continuously without stopping. They have a long freezing chamber where the mixture is quickly and continuously frozen as it moves through the machine in a continuous flow. The freezing process is done by a special cooling system that uses very cold air or a freezing liquid to freeze the mixture as it flows through the machine.

The frozen product comes out from the other end of the machine as a continuous ribbon or stream of ice cream. This is very useful for making large quantities of ice cream quickly, as it saves time and energy compared to batch freezers, which can only make small batches at a time.

In summary, continuous freezers are like super-fast magical machines that can freeze ice cream continuously, making it quick and easy to make large quantities of delicious frozen treats.