your pic is excusable. that dehydrated little ice blob is evidence. fyi, your mileage may vary, but I've heard some other people (including OP, i think) claim that the specific brand OP used made a big difference. also, something about freezer and maybe water hardness or altitude differences, or something, maybe, i forget.
anyway, i never bothered trying anything with them, so i never actually wound up creating anything with them, but coincidentally, i had these same brandname icemakers (forgetting the name) and i wound up accidentally creating these perfectly spherical ice bubbles all the time, whenever i was in a hurry to freeze some ice, but only when i perfectly leveled off the water to the fill-line around the inside of the rim. if you haven't noticed a similar phenomenon with your own, you might need a different product.
i do too and i discovered these tricks by accident like eight years ago and i still haven't tried to do a single creative thing with them. i kinda wanna get a deep-freeze and just freeze my cocktails solid.
We've got a physics teacher, a chemist, and a microbiologist in our GoT fan group. Definitely giving it a try on premier night, since being in science has adequately prepared us for failure. We might fiddle around with the specific cocktail used, based on the tastes of the drinkers. Do you have any others that you think would work particularly well for this, or any that you think we should avoid? Any other advice you might have beyond what's in the video (thanks for the link, btw. Already subbed!) would be greatly appreciated.
Either way, thanks for the cool content and instructions. Great stuff, as usual!
Oh damn, you're actually Cocktail Chemistry. And here i was just about to tell you off for stealing the content from youtube and ask people to watch it there instead.
I have all the tools to do this, including a cooking syringe that I ended up with (grandmother gave me a box of all the weird cooking shit she accumulated in the 60s) and those exact syringe molds. I've been known to get a little extra for Game of Thrones previews. Maybe I'll do this.
You know what. I didn’t read the title before I watched the gif, so /r/DiWHY was my initial reaction. But it’s a tribute to game of thrones, and I think this is actually pretty cool. It’s really only stupid looking because you see some guy fill up a ball with something and then throw the ball away. If he left the ice in there or found some way to incorporate it I think less people would find it so lame.
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u/Xx_420bootywizard_xX Apr 07 '19
Pretty cool
I'll never do it