21 Comments on Your Expensive Drink Deserves an Expensive Ice
What a crock!
Ice is ice.
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Like the drunk SOB at the bar gives a shit.
“Wow! I can see clear through this ice…burp…cube!”
I haven’t heard that Crack The Sky song in many years…
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Well….maybe that guy with the $540,000 wristwatch would give a shit…
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You can make crystal clear ice at home. Just put water in a cooler, put the cooler in the freezer. It’ll freeze from the bottom up, and when it’s about 1/2 to 2/3 frozen it’s done. Pour out the water, knock out the ice, carve it how you want it and put in freezer for future use.
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Or wait, maybe it freezes from the top down, I don’t remember, either way it works. lolol.
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Treat yourself! Go to YouTube and listen to the ‘The Ice Miner’ by Leo Kottke.
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Where I grew up there was a place near my house along the C&O canal called Kitter’s ice pond. It was a spring fed pond that adjoined the canal. My Dad said in the winter when he was a kid in the 1910’s the ice company would cut ice out of the pond and take it to DC on the canal boats to be packed in the ice houses. He had one of the hook doohickeys they used to carry the ice. I think my brother still has it. https://youtu.be/370-4mPUm0M?si=wTwGfABMY2YrU0oA
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I use Stainless Steel Balls from the freezer for whiskey on hot summer days…it doesn’t melt and dilute the good stuff!
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Canada is going to ban WD40. Idiots.
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I’m thinking Doc should spray some WD-40 on his balls so they don’t get stuck to his lips. LOL
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When you start selling gourmet ice then the next obvious step is to sell gourmet tap water in plastic bottles….call it something like artesian spring water….
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There’s an old ice house maybe a mile from me, it’s used for meat packing and storage now. Caught on fire a while back, you wouldn’t believe the smoke plume. I went down to gawk along with about 50 other people. The firemen said the place had cork walls about 2 feet thick; they had a hell of a time getting the fire out, they were there for 5 hours before they got it beat down.
Dang, I haven’t thought about that in years.
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Picking up a 300 pound block of ice with an overhead crane is the most dangerous part of the job. I guess it’s not such a dangerous job.
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Back when I was young and living in Alaska we frequently had glacier ice for our drinks. We figured it couldn’t get better than that. I’ve since read about organisms that come to life after thousands of years. Probably won’t do that anymore.
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They start with NYC tap water? This would be like paying for bottled “spring water” that comes from the plant across town. I don’t drink anymore, but if I did I like DOC’s idea.
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I like when Curly would tote a large block of ice up a few flights of steps and it turn into an ice cube. Good times.
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Genius business, buy low, sell high, turn cheap ass water into luxurious ice cubes for snobs, bravo real man of genius…
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I used to read a blog named, Parkway Rest Stop, and if I remember right the creator passed away. Sometimes he wrote about his turns bar tending at the local Veterans club, and one point he made that I’ve not forgotten was, -always- use clear ice when serving drinks (requiring ice).
A bag of ice is not that expensive. 😉
p.s. so many bloggers I used to read passed way. so sad.
What a crock!
Ice is ice.
Like the drunk SOB at the bar gives a shit.
“Wow! I can see clear through this ice…burp…cube!”
I haven’t heard that Crack The Sky song in many years…
Well….maybe that guy with the $540,000 wristwatch would give a shit…
You can make crystal clear ice at home. Just put water in a cooler, put the cooler in the freezer. It’ll freeze from the bottom up, and when it’s about 1/2 to 2/3 frozen it’s done. Pour out the water, knock out the ice, carve it how you want it and put in freezer for future use.
Or wait, maybe it freezes from the top down, I don’t remember, either way it works. lolol.
Treat yourself! Go to YouTube and listen to the ‘The Ice Miner’ by Leo Kottke.
Where I grew up there was a place near my house along the C&O canal called Kitter’s ice pond. It was a spring fed pond that adjoined the canal. My Dad said in the winter when he was a kid in the 1910’s the ice company would cut ice out of the pond and take it to DC on the canal boats to be packed in the ice houses. He had one of the hook doohickeys they used to carry the ice. I think my brother still has it.
https://youtu.be/370-4mPUm0M?si=wTwGfABMY2YrU0oA
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https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/keeping-maines-history-of-ice-harvesting-alive-winter/97-37205e28-9838-46ad-98cf-12a0f4809198
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I thought for sure this would be about Drambuie.
I use Stainless Steel Balls from the freezer for whiskey on hot summer days…it doesn’t melt and dilute the good stuff!
Canada is going to ban WD40. Idiots.
I’m thinking Doc should spray some WD-40 on his balls so they don’t get stuck to his lips. LOL
When you start selling gourmet ice then the next obvious step is to sell gourmet tap water in plastic bottles….call it something like artesian spring water….
There’s an old ice house maybe a mile from me, it’s used for meat packing and storage now. Caught on fire a while back, you wouldn’t believe the smoke plume. I went down to gawk along with about 50 other people. The firemen said the place had cork walls about 2 feet thick; they had a hell of a time getting the fire out, they were there for 5 hours before they got it beat down.
Dang, I haven’t thought about that in years.
Picking up a 300 pound block of ice with an overhead crane is the most dangerous part of the job. I guess it’s not such a dangerous job.
Back when I was young and living in Alaska we frequently had glacier ice for our drinks. We figured it couldn’t get better than that. I’ve since read about organisms that come to life after thousands of years. Probably won’t do that anymore.
They start with NYC tap water? This would be like paying for bottled “spring water” that comes from the plant across town. I don’t drink anymore, but if I did I like DOC’s idea.
I like when Curly would tote a large block of ice up a few flights of steps and it turn into an ice cube. Good times.
Genius business, buy low, sell high, turn cheap ass water into luxurious ice cubes for snobs, bravo real man of genius…
I used to read a blog named, Parkway Rest Stop, and if I remember right the creator passed away. Sometimes he wrote about his turns bar tending at the local Veterans club, and one point he made that I’ve not forgotten was, -always- use clear ice when serving drinks (requiring ice).
A bag of ice is not that expensive. 😉
p.s. so many bloggers I used to read passed way. so sad.
Oops, Not Anonymous @ 1:57.