What is the difference between a cocktail, granita, slushie and a daiquiri machine- The question finally explained
Over the past few months we have noticed a number of our clients have had a similar recurring question about the difference between a cocktail, a daiquiri, a granita and a slushie machine. This has prompted us to answer this question in our blog to finally explain this common query. In fact, all of these terms mean the same thing. We further explain how these different names have come about:
Cocktail machine- The cocktail machine is probably the most widespread term used in the industry. We believe this is because cocktails are very popular in bars and most people are familar with them. However many of the common cocktails are served in liquid form, such as the Cosmopolitan, Sex on the beach, the Illusion and Blue Haiwaian, so technically, it is not the best description because they are not icey.
However, the Margarita and the Mojito are very popular cocktails which are both served over ice, so you could argue that it is a fitting description. Some clients have referred to the machines as “frozen cocktail machines”, which is a good way of describing them. Today, we have pretty much every cocktail flavour available for our frozen cocktail machines so it is a handy word to describe what the machines do.
Daiquiri machine- If this debate came to a court of law, I think the term “daiquri machine” would be the most legitimate description of what the machines really are. Daiquiris are made in bars using crushed ice and fruit blended up together. The machines put out exaclty this, a crushed fruity ice. The most famous daiquris are the strawberry daiquiri and the mango daiquiri, and these are two of the most popular flavours at Cool Rush. However, there are not too many other daiquiri flavours, so you could argue that daiquiri only covers a small percentage of what the machines can actually produce, and is why many people prefer to use the term “frozen cocktail machine”
Slushie machine- This can also be spelt slush and slushy. These are also good terms to describe the machines. Generally adults booking machines for kids parties often use this term. The “slushie” is mainly used to describe an ice drink that is not alcoholic. Whilst all our flavours are non alcoholic, you can choose to add alcohol or not. Parents booking machines for children obviously don’t add alcohol, so they fell safe referring to the machines as slush machines. Cola, Raspberry and Blue Lemonade tend to be the favoured slushie flavours.
Granita machine- The term “granita” originates from Italy. In fact, the whole cocktail machine concept started in Italy and still to this day, many of the machines that the industry uses come from Italy, in particular the GBG brand, which Cool Rush uses. The granita is an Italian word that refers to a crushed ice drink. The consistency of granita ice tends to be a bit firmer and more of an ice shaving, like you would get in a snow cone machine. Today, the machines we use produce a more softer and fluffy slush, but the granita term is still an adequate description.
So in conclusion, no matter which term you use to describe, they all mean the same thing. There is no right and wrong, we know what you mean so don’t stress.
If you have another term that you use to describe the frozen cocktails, then by all means email us and we will list it up in our blog.
Thanks from the Cool Rush team.
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