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   asha chaudhry April 3, 2014, 12:18 pm

   mukat 

   i know of one rodinhooder who is into the ice cream biz 

   https://www.therodinhoods.com/profile/kirannbolantkodi

   comment on this thread – and perhaps you’ll get an answer!

   https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/anybody-who-can-help-in-my-icecream-startup-two-years-old

   also you can reach out karan pandhi who makes desserts. maybe he can help you…

   https://www.therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/soda-machine-or-coke-pepsi

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   Mukat Jain April 3, 2014, 12:42 pm

   thanks asha mam…will contact both of them…

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   Omkar Nisal April 3, 2014, 9:46 pm

   Ricardo Semler of Semler Corporation in Brazil wrote a book called The seven day weekend , which is about his offbeat company ‘Semco’ . (I highly recommend reading this book)

   Lot of fascinating stories, one of them is about how they came up with a creative solution to cut their Office building power expense. 

   Electricity is cheaper at night time in Brazil. So what these guys did is created a huge pool of water on the terrace of their office building and literally created ice at night and in day time simply blew air over this ice and  into air ducting. Not only the roof remained cold due to ice but also the air was chilled as well. 

   My guess Is that this Semco-ice company : https://semcoice.com/ice-banks/ is probably the result of that creative idea! Check out some specification they mention for ice banks. May be those specifications are useful to come up with your own Jugaad solution!

   I used to stay in a very ancient house in Ahmednagar, my birth place. Those  houses which were built during freedom fighting times have strange structures and my home is one of them. The secret rooms underground, the secret tunnels inside secret underground rooms… Pretty exciting stuff. In 2013 I was staying again for few months in that house and I could not help by notice how damn dark and cold these underground rooms are! 

   Putting together these two things, maybe you could dig up an underground room or if that is not possible, then simply use any unused underground water tank as your freezer and your Ice cream storage container Strategically placed inside this frozen water tank, enabling easy access to the content yet keeping your good safely cold inside … hours after outer outage/despite erratic electricity supply.

   PS look around there really might be unused tanks, for example near my father’s home there are several septic tanks which were never used and lie empty for last one and half decade!

   You could do prototype experiment right in your basement/backyard/neighbor’s garden with help of a old fridge compressor and a simple thick plastic sheet placed in the soil, and common thermocol sheets for insulation. 

   Happy ‘Jugaad’ing! 🙂

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   Omkar Nisal April 3, 2014, 10:06 pm

   PLUS : Ice is bad conductor of heat! https://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_ice_a_poor_conductor_of_heat?#slide=2

   Wood + air + ice might give you amazing results:  https://www.cyberphysics.co.uk/topics/heat/conduction.htm

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   Chaman Raj April 4, 2014, 10:24 am

   Hi Mukat,

   Though I have not used it personally, but I do know of someone who used DRY ICE to store ice-cream. You would probably have to ask around the ice cream shops about where you can get this, however I have heard its really effective in maintaining really low temperatures. For more reference – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_ice

   You can also use thermocol made ice boxes with normal ice. With good amount of ice, you can store ice-creams for more than 2 hrs.

   Thanks,

   Chaman.

   https://facebook/sandwedges

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   kiran n. bolantkodi April 4, 2014, 11:21 am

   Mukat,

   u can use insulated iceboxes ( Companies like Sintex manufacture that – 100litres capacity box costs u anywher b/w 5000-7000) and can use prehardened ( previously hardened keeping it inside a freezer) ice packs in the insulated boxes with airtight pack . This will keep the icecream at -18 to -16 for 2-3 hours.

   Or u can use utectic frezers which keep the icecream at -18 to – 16 for 12 hours without power ( once you fully freezeit). It will cost u 30% more than normal freezers. Other than this i dont think any option 

   And if anyone have better idea to maintain  icecream at -18 please do suggest . It will help all icecream manufacturer.

   Feel free to contact me  kiranbolantkodi@yahoo.co.in  or cremefraiche2008@yahoo.co.in

   Kiran

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   arpit shekhar April 5, 2014, 4:53 am

   contact a desi icecream waala…the wooden cart they put some desi salt or kaala namak which elongates the ice to melt…plus recently i saw a mud fridge which runs without electricity can try that tooo…..

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