Ice Cream – Gelato Dipping-Scooping Cart

July 1st, 2010 by

Ice Cream- Gelato Dipping-Scooping Cart from Neil Williams on Vimeo. Thanks for taking the time to watch this video on our mobile dipping carts. The dipping cart you see here is the model BD6-CE-03 and was built custom for Molli Coolz! It’s got a sink, and it’s got cold-plates built in. Optional overhead canopies are available for all push carts. All canopies feature spring assisted support poles. This means that even the largest and complex carts can easily be broken down to fit through a doorway without tools. Very little effort is required to raise and lower the canopy making set-up and tear-down a real breeze. What used to require two people is now easily done by one operator. The canopies all feature a pull-out shade, a light fixture, and a storage shelf. It fits about six (6) 3-gallon tubs or about six (6) 5-liter gelato pans. In this case, Molli Coolz! was using gelato style tubs which called for a custom racking system. It’s got a sneeze guard with a Plexiglas door that’s really strong and also has a bumper on the bottom so that it can take the beating you know it will take on a daily basis. Another special feature on this high-end sneeze guard is a light inside and the fact that you can can stock light-weight type products like cups and cones up top. This cart has a beautiful sink system with stainless-steel tanks, California approved, 6-gallon fresh water and 8-gallon waste water. It also has a quick disconnect for when you go to fill up your fresh water tank. The quick disconnect is a California health department requirement. Right here is an overflow hose in case you go too far with filling the fresh water tank. Over on this side, you have a stainless-steel, 8-gallon waste water tank where your sink drains into. In the back you have an on-demand hot water heater and pressure pump, and when everything’s turned on you pull about 15 amps. So you turn on the faucet, it goes through the tank, though the hot water heater and out comes hot water into the sink. So then when your fresh water runs out, your pump has an automatic shut-off, and then you have to go back in and refill the fresh water tank. Emptying the waste water tank is easy; you just pull out the little hose, you just hook up a regular garden house and run it out to wherever it makes sense to get rid of all the waste water. As you can see up here, this cart has a single-bowl sink and it is NSF and UL approved. It’s also got a little grommet hole over here where from the bottom you can pull up an electrical cord from the bottom and plug in something up here on the top. The cart also has a cord grab so that the cord doesn’t get in the way when you’re moving the cart around. The dipping cart you’re looking at now is the BD8CE05, which is one of our larger carts. It’s got a triple bowl sink and a dip well.   This sink here was designed for area health code where they allowed this side over hear for hand washing and a two-bowl system for utensil washing. So with the divider here, one sink system covers all the health department requirements. The sink is recessed 6 inches from the top of the cart which is a pretty basic requirement across the country. Over here you see the built in dip well system with running water where you house the scooper in order to keep it clean. Just like in the last cart we showed you, you just pop open the bottom to see the sink, where you have the fresh water tank, the drain waste water tank, you got a hot water heater, the piping for the three bowls, a hose where you can hook up a garden hose and run the waste water to the outside wherever it needs to go.  Over here there’s some extra storage. You also have the plumbing for the diplo system which uses the same waste water tank and fresh water tank as the sink does. Now this cart is not meant to be mobile, but as you can see it weighs about 1000 pounds and can be fairly easily moved by one person. Moving on to the actual dipping cabinet and the flip lids, it’s got the heavy duty, stainless steel flip lids which are primarily for outdoor use. A real nice feature is that they are interchangeable depending on operator preference.  Inside the dipping cabinet you’ll notice cold plates up on the walls. These cold plates after being plugged in at night will keep the temperature without the need for electricity or dry ice. The bottom of the cart is stainless steel, not painted steel or galvanized, but stainless steel. Stainless steel is critical for an outdoor cart if you want it to be long lasting. The canopy on this cart is easy to see because the lexan panels have not been put on yet. So what you’re seeing here is essentially the aluminum framing.   Again, most canopies have the shade barrier, a shelf to hold paper products above, and light fixtures.   All that needs to be done to complete this cart is to install the panels on the canopy which can be done in white, clear, or we can do custom graphics for you. Locking the dipping cabinet is easy, you just slide the aluminum bar through the O rings and put a padlock on it. All Nelson carts undergo rigorous testing under stress conditions to insure that they are working properly before they are shipped to the customer. Because theses carts take 4-6 weeks to build, make sure you contact us as early as possible if you plan on purchasing one. Thanks again for taking the time to watch this video on our dipping carts.