Ice

[star seed 7]

You know how sometimes your ice cubes fuse together in your glass leading to a hilarious pour-crap-all-over-your-face moment? Or how that bag of ice in your freezer becomes one huge ice block, causing you to take an ice pick to it and accidentally poke a hole in your freezer? Well, that's a result of a process called sintering, and it's the same process used in industrial applications to mold metals, such as Tungsten, that have extremely high melting points without actually having to heat the material to said melting point.

boorrrrringggg

[cas4ksu]

Having a stand alone ice maker is a great investment.

[Kat Kid]

i really like how ice gets porous or something after a while in a liquid and then you can chew it and it chews just right, not too hard and brittle like fresh ice.


chingon, please explain the science of ice textures.

YES!  My son loves ice and will wait until the ice is shrunken/softer then come over and grab it right out of an unattended glass.  Sometimes he will ask for ice.

[j-dub]

You know how sometimes your ice cubes fuse together in your glass leading to a hilarious pour-crap-all-over-your-face moment? Or how that bag of ice in your freezer becomes one huge ice block, causing you to take an ice pick to it and accidentally poke a hole in your freezer? Well, that's a result of a process called sintering, and it's the same process used in industrial applications to mold metals, such as Tungsten, that have extremely high melting points without actually having to heat the material to said melting point.

boorrrrringggg

more shakes. less science.

 

[sys]

My son loves ice and will wait until the ice is shrunken/softer then come over and grab it right out of an unattended glass.  Sometimes he will ask for ice.

your child may be a genius.

[puniraptor]

I always rinse off my ice before using it. The outer layer of ice collects odorants from the fridge and freezer.

[Tobias]

I always rinse off my ice before using it. The outer layer of ice collects odorants from the fridge and freezer.

grandma's ice

[Stevesie60]

You know how sometimes your ice cubes fuse together in your glass leading to a hilarious pour-crap-all-over-your-face moment? Or how that bag of ice in your freezer becomes one huge ice block, causing you to take an ice pick to it and accidentally poke a hole in your freezer? Well, that's a result of a process called sintering, and it's the same process used in industrial applications to mold metals, such as Tungsten, that have extremely high melting points without actually having to heat the material to said melting point. 

Still looking for a pun or some play on words here......

[sys]

You know how sometimes your ice cubes fuse together in your glass leading to a hilarious pour-crap-all-over-your-face moment? Or how that bag of ice in your freezer becomes one huge ice block, causing you to take an ice pick to it and accidentally poke a hole in your freezer? Well, that's a result of a process called sintering, and it's the same process used in industrial applications to mold metals, such as Tungsten, that have extremely high melting points without actually having to heat the material to said melting point.

i liked your post, spracne.

[puniraptor]

Sintering is another Shakespeare dick joke. This guy has become predictable.

[8manpick]

Mrs. ksupamplemousse's dad owns a packaged ice company.

And almost everyone on this board has probably used it

[raquetcat]

Mrs. ksupamplemousse's dad owns a packaged ice company.

This post did not get enough attention. I have so many questions:
How did he get into the ice business, are you heir to an ice kingdom, is it just a giant freezer and they put the ice into little bags, who wants to work in this giant freezer, does he own ice trucks, how do they make ice on an industrial level, do they have a super freezer that turns water to ice in like 5 minutes........I could go on forever

[Pete]

You guys ever wonder why we love ice in our mixed drinks but will not tolerate it in beer?

[sys]

You guys ever wonder why we love ice in our mixed drinks but will not tolerate it in beer?

you could make a fortune brewing concentrated, ice-ready^tm beer.

[ksupamplemousse]

Mrs. ksupamplemousse's dad owns a packaged ice company.

This post did not get enough attention. I have so many questions:
How did he get into the ice business, are you heir to an ice kingdom, is it just a giant freezer and they put the ice into little bags, who wants to work in this giant freezer, does he own ice trucks, how do they make ice on an industrial level, do they have a super freezer that turns water to ice in like 5 minutes........I could go on forever

Worked in the packaged ice business in Wichita, eventually said eff it, I can do this better than these assholes. If we end up inheriting the business, I would just sell it off, it's an owner/operator type biz...too many hours (would be worth a pretty nice chunk of change though). They have a giant ice making apparatus that freezes water into sheets very quickly (not totally sure on number of minutes, but it's fast). When the sheets drop, they break, and then an auger breaks the ice into smaller pieces and shuttles it onto a conveyor belt where it's separated into seven/twenty pound portions and dropped into bags. So, the machine does most of the work, but he hires a bunch of migrant workers to put the bags on pallets and then move them into cold storage rooms at the plant. Then his drivers ride out in his fleet of trucks to carry all this beautiful ice to an adoring public.

[highway61]

High school physics teacher once explained that how if water didn't turn to ice at normal temperatures and expand then life on Earth never would have started.  I don't remember the explanation, but I have always appreciated ice ever since.

[bones129]

You know how sometimes your ice cubes fuse together in your glass leading to a hilarious pour-crap-all-over-your-face moment? Or how that bag of ice in your freezer becomes one huge ice block, causing you to take an ice pick to it and accidentally poke a hole in your freezer? Well, that's a result of a process called sintering, and it's the same process used in industrial applications to mold metals, such as Tungsten, that have extremely high melting points without actually having to heat the material to said melting point.

boorrrrringggg

Yeah, a little TMI about ice. I just know it goes well in my drinks. Good enough for me.

[WillieWatanabe]

There used to be ice houses along creeks by small towns back in the early 1900s or whatever. that's so crazy.     <- but with ice

[puniraptor]

my college job was working at the early (pre?!) 1900s ice house in mhk

if i could get paid doing that what i get paid now, i would do that forever.

[Brock Landers]

Ice makes cold drinks even better.  Pour a can of Pepsi over ice even though it's already been chilling in the fridge?  You're damn right I do.

Is your aluminum can of High Life getting a bit too toasty?  Pour that sucker in a glass with cubes of solid water and rescue your refreshment.

Just for this Spracne I'm going to have a beer over ice this weekend and enjoy it!!

Promise me you'll use my slogan - Rescue your Refresment! - when you do it.

I poured a can of Busch Light over ice yesterday.  By the time I got to the end of it there was almost no beer taste whatsoever.

[Cartierfor3]

Sometimes my kids will eat crushed ice and think its a treat. Its just water, like, the healthiest thing around.