Soft Serve Machines

: a smooth semisolid ice cream that contains less milk fat than regular ice cream and is made in and dispensed from a freezer in which it is aerated and continuously churned. often used before another noun. soft-serve ice creama soft-serve machine.Soft serve, also known as soft ice, is a frozen dessert, similar to ice cream but softer and less dense due to air being introduced during freezing. Soft serve has been sold commercially since the late 1930s in the US.Soft serve machines work by taking a liquid ice cream mix and simultaneously agitating it as well as freezing it. Depending on the machine and the type of mix, the time it takes to finish converting a liquid mix to soft serve ice cream ranges from 15-30 minutes.Soft serve also usually contains less milk fat than regular ice-cream. Frozen yogurt, or “froyo” is usually not made from 100 percent yogurt. It does always contain some sort of dairy product (milk solids and/or milk fat) and is lower in fat and calories because milk is used instead of cream.