smooth and CHEWY? Maybe crunchy? Hmmm.....
chewIER than in water, i guess. you know what i mean... no? well, just trying to help out here!
I think I see what you mean.....
and I can see all 3 of you quite clearly but please stand still.
I think I need some beer.
<slurp>
I have another one here.
btw, mr.b has a couple of books for ya to go with your scientific experiment with ice...
oh, and btw #2: my car died today. possibly forever, will know for sure tomorrow. hence the eagerness to participate in this experiment.
Yikes! What happened with your car?
Thank MrB for thinking of me.
My car sounds louder and louder each day. It hurts my ears to drive it. I'll..... wait a minute. Way off-subject.....
slurp (just to stay on subject...). car overheated, 'check engine' sign came on, smoke came out.... that whole schtick...
gulp.
Thaaaat's why I wanted to put in fruit juice controls. Some scientists that could perhaps help on Noddy's question may not be, er, imbibers.
dyslexia wrote:ossobuco wrote:Ok, I figured it out. We need to do that because people participating will choose different sorts of alcohol and different mixes of other substances with their alcohol choice and we need to clarify if it is the other substances that affect the icy surface.
"mixes" people use alchohol with "mixes?" are they totally tasteless or just brain-dead?
You're thinking of mixicans. Not to be confused with new mixicans....
LOL--newmixicans can be very surly about their booze.
<snort>
Well, it may be that anything other than water willowing around an ice cube will encrust and disgust its surface (thus somehow causing "polishing"), be it alcohol or fruit juice.
Or, as mentioned, the effect may be relative to the ice making.
Hey, wait a minute--noone commented on my post about iceberg ice and the loud popping sound it makes as compared to regular icecubes. What was the original question? Are we even close to fulfilling Noddy's scientific experiment? At this point, do we really care? Would somebody please pass the Maker's Mark?
The alchohol lowers the freezing point of the liquid. Thus the ice in an alchoholic drink is colder than the melting point of pure water ice, and the inside of the cube is still solid. Whereas ice in water will be at the freezing point of water, and the entire cube is ready to melt.
But wait, I meant to comment on that, she says, begging pardon.
Your iceberg ice packet is probably purer than other fragments in the matrix. That probably should be the Ice Standard.
Shhh, maybe I should listen to DrewDad...
See, now that we have a theory we can proceed with designing and performing an experiment.
I'd perform the "Scotch on the rocks" test myself, but then I'd be wasting perfectly good Scotch by pouring it over ice.
