"Dee Dee" > wrote in
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>
> "blake murphy" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:30:24 -0400, "Dee Dee" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
...
>>>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:32:08 GMT, Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Christine Dabney > wrote:
>>>>>>it. The ice creams these days don't have that heft...that
>>>>>>chewiness.
>>>>>
>>>>>Gelato.
>>>>>
>>>>>You want some gelato.
>>>> Okay, that is more than one person that has mentioned gelato.
>>>> Looks like I need to make gelato.
>>>>
>>>>>You also want to be 30 years younger and able to eat
>>>>>a hot fudge sundae the size of your head.
>>>>
>>>> Did that about 40 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Christine
>>>
>>>Before I would buy a 'gelato maker' I'd try to find out if it makes
>>>'ice cream' also, or if there is a certain type of compressor for
>>>gelato vs. ice
>>>cream which gauges the temperature and cfm, etc.
>>
>> dee dee, what does 'cfm' mean? google was not my friend in this
>> case.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> All the below, I am referring to both 'compressor' gelato and ice
> cream machines.
>
> You see, blake, I know nothing; I'm only trying to find the answers.
> That's why I'm only guessing that gelato machine compressors vs. ice
> cream machine compressors must have 'some' kind of difference;
> temperature, btu, amps; I think I must've got carried away with the
> 'cfm.' DH said he didn't know what I was talking about (and I know
> that I don't know what I'm talking about).
>
> There just has to be specs showing differences as to why one is called
> or used as a gelato machine,
> and one is used or called an ice cream machine.
>
> But I'm not buying either until I can find an answer. DH doesn't
> seemed too thrilled in finding the answer for me, and I cannot seem to
> locate the answer myself.
> Dee Dee
>
>
>

CFM is the measurement of the compressor intake valve or pump (cubic feet
per minute). The higher the CFM the faster it will work. Like a fridge or
a air conditioner the compressor compresses a fluid then later it
expands. The higher the CFM the faster it will cool...in theory.

Say the pump intake valve is 1/2 inch and the pump takes in say 9 cubic
feet per minute... so .5inch X ? X ? (whatever would make 9 cubic feet)
or 1 cubic yard per minute....think about the size of that cubic yard of
top soil you had delivered awhile ago that took you all day to move.

hope this helps.

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