The invention provides a plate ice machine with a dual-plate evaporator and a running method of the plate ice machine. A machine body shell of the plate ice machine is internally provided with a refrigeration system, an ice making water conveying system, a deicing water conveying system and an ice breaking mechanism; the evaporator comprises a plurality of evaporation dual plates, each evaporationdual plates comprise two opposite evaporation single plates, an overheating gap is formed between every two corresponding evaporation single plates, each evaporation single plate comprises a plurality of unit plate bodies, a plurality of circulation channels are arranged in the unit plate bodies in parallel, the cross sections of the circulation channels are rectangular, the inner walls of the circulation channels are evenly provided with a plurality of beads, plugging plates are fixedly installed on the two sides of each unit plate body, cavities are arranged in the plugging plates, the circulation channels communicate with the cavities, one ends of the cavities in the plugging plates are opened, the other ends of the cavities in the plugging plates are provided with closed plates, and openings of the cavities of the two plugging plates on each unit plate body are reversely arranged up and down; and the multiple unit plate bodies are fixedly connected through splicing assemblies in atandem manner, the plugging plates of every two adjacent unit bodies up and down are connected in an aligned manner, and the openings of the cavities of the plugging plates are in sealed communication.