Flake Ice Machines

Choosing a flake ice machine

What flake ice is for. Flake ice packs around whatever it touches, so it cools fast and holds shape on a display without bruising the product. That makes it the ice for seafood counters, butchers, produce displays and food processing. It is not bar ice — it melts quickly by design, which is exactly why it chills so well.

Output first. Our flakers run 60 kg/24h to 890 kg/24h, with a median around 195 kg — noticeably bigger than our cube range, because display work consumes ice continuously through the day rather than in bursts. Size on your busiest trading day. Production and storage are two different numbers — the machine keeps making ice through the peak, but the bin is what carries you through it — and rated output is measured at a specified ambient air and incoming water temperature, so leave headroom for a hot kitchen.

Where it goes. 500 mm to 950 mm wide. Larger flakers are usually modular — the ice head sits on a separate storage bin, which lets you scale storage without replacing the machine. Our ice storage bins page has the bins; for cube ice instead, see commercial ice machines.

What you get from us. From $2,995 ex-GST, across ICEMATIC, Scotsman, Bromic, Blizzard and Hoshizaki. Stock is here — our own units in our warehouse, the agency brands held minutes away. What takes the time is testing, not sourcing: every unit is run up and checked before it leaves us, which is why we don't promise same-day dispatch. Sydney metro is same or next day once it's passed; we deliver Australia-wide. SilverChef Rent-Try-Buy is available.