What Tool(s) To Use To Crush Ice Cubes Fast

[RadioDays]

I can put ice cubes into a plastic bag and swing it down to the
floor. It works -- one big problem -- the second swing breaks the
plastic bag. I put heavy nuts (nut and bolt nuts) into a container
and shook the container. This barely works at all. I bought an
expensive blender. The shaft broke inside where it cannot be gotten
to. I have run the cubes under that tap. This works fast but I don't
like having to make twice the ice. -------- One of you has an idea of
something I can put on the kitchen counter or on the garage work bench
and crush 10 or 12 cubes of ice with one pull of a lever or one blow
of a hammer or some thing-a-ma-bob I can by in hardware or automotive
store. Please give me your ideas even if you haven't had time to
prove them. I would really appreciate it. R E Williams, Surrey,
British Columbia

[RadioDays]

[John G]

RadioDays presented the following explanation :

The Google machine works very well, try it sometime 8-o

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[Puckdropper at dot]

RadioDays <2541...@gmail.com> wrote in news:4550e6cb-8454-47e1-8b3d-
f2609a...@z26g2000pre.googlegroups.com:

DAGS for "Ice Crusher." I've got a manual model that was old when I got
it but works great. If you turn the handle one way, it produces fine
(1/4") ice. Turned the other way, it produces coarse (3/8") ice that
actually works better for cooling drinks.

It's not as quick as one pull, but it's fast enough.

Puckdropper

[Sonny]

Double duty option: A snow cone machine will crush any shaped ice,
for whatever your need is. Beyond your needs, it's a hit with the
kids, too.... mine is used at the family reunions. Many flavors of
syrup can be bought at any major grocery store, in the KoolAid
department.

[Larry Jaques]

Take one thick rubber glove, one metric ton of ice cubes, one
largeasss bucket, and a simple stainless steel tablespoon.

Pick up one ice cube, rap soundly with the rounded portion of the
tablespoon, dump in bucket. Rinse, repeat until you can find some
other idiot to take over for you.

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[Steve Barker]

dad used to use a gunny sack and the broad side of a three pound mallet
to crush ice for the ice cream freezer. Froze the blocks ourselves by
filling paper milk cartons, then all you had to do is put the cartons in
the bag, and pound away!

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[Kerry Montgomery]

"Steve Barker" <ichase...@notgmail.com> wrote in message
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The father of a friend of mine was out on the sidewalk with a gunny sack
(burlap bag) with a block of ice in it. He was swinging it back and forth
against the sidewalk when a car went by. He said loudly,"God damn kittens!"
Kerry

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[Leon]

On 9/13/2011 6:57 PM, RadioDays wrote:

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[Robatoy]

For openers, what are you planning to dilute with that ice...if it is
scotch, you will be shot at dawn.
Besides, ice cubes are made from water and fish copulate in that
stuff.

IF you must use a splash of water to 'wake up' a dram of single malt,
only use water from a stream filtered through the panties of a
Newfoundland virgin and they are becoming exceedingly difficult to
find; maybe the ugliest girl in grade 4?

[whit3rd]

On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:25:04 PM UTC-7, Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:57 -0700 (PDT), RadioDays
> <2541...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I can put ice cubes into a plastic bag and swing it down to the
> >floor. It works -- one big problem -- the second swing breaks the
> >plastic bag.

> Pick up one ice cube, rap soundly with the rounded portion of the
> tablespoon, dump in bucket.

The long arm of an iced-tea spoon gives a better mechanical advantage.
Fast-moving light impactor gets you to cracked ice with minimum
energy input, as long as the ice cube is cold and brittle.

You can also get an ice shaver, lots of 'em on the market for
slush drinks (or juleps for the grownups) - it's just a bucket with a
plane-like knife blade on the bottom and a cranked wheel of icespikes
on top.

[Sonny]

>
> You can also get an ice shaver, lots of 'em on the market for
> slush drinks (or juleps for the grownups) - it's just a bucket with a
> plane-like knife blade on the bottom and a cranked wheel of icespikes
> on top.

The ice scraper has been around a long time.... used for making snow
cones (as I recall) and the like, as you noted.

A snow cone machine is similar. The inside scrapers are blades, about
2" long, mounted each side of a disc, similar to looking at the bottom
of a hand planer. Load the ice in one end and a plunger is used to
push the ice through the shaving disc, which is spun by a motor.

Sonny

[Robatoy]

He wants smaller cubes, crushed ice, totally different from shaved
iced/snow.

[Swingman]

On 9/14/2011 1:49 PM, Robatoy wrote:

> He wants smaller cubes, crushed ice, totally different from shaved
> iced/snow.

Installed a dedicated $2k shaved ice maker in a recent kitchen remodel.

I would say wretched excess, but I want one too.

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[willshak]

RadioDays wrote the following:

http://www.chow.com/food-news/54266/how-to-crush-ice-for-cocktails/
A 24 second video.

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[Dave Balderstone]

In article <iZKdnfkshNYMqe3T...@earthlink.com>, Kerry

Montgomery <kamo...@teleport.com> wrote:

> The father of a friend of mine was out on the sidewalk with a gunny sack
> (burlap bag) with a block of ice in it. He was swinging it back and forth
> against the sidewalk when a car went by. He said loudly,"God damn kittens!"

You owe me a new keyboard... ROTFLMAO!

[Robatoy]

Yabbut.....for a righteous single malt? I am sooo lucky to have a
friend who has the financial wherewithal and curiousity to be buying
some outrageous scotch at prices which would give anybody with a Dutch
heart a coronary.
He hates to drink alone...God bless him....
A few drops of mineral water to awake a single malt is de rigueur.

I am soooo fighting NOT to become a scotch 'aficionado' because I
dislike almost all 'aficionados'. But I like that shit.

But ICE??????? For a soda, who cares. To plunge your pecker in after
round 5..okay. But, like Jackie Gleason said after the bartender asked
if he wanted ice in his drink: "I am here to drink, not to skate."

[Swingman]

On 9/14/2011 3:53 PM, Robatoy wrote:

> I am soooo fighting NOT to become a scotch 'aficionado' because I
> dislike almost all 'aficionados'. But I like that shit.

As long as it's a single malt, and one word: Laphroaig

Too bad you can't buy the 15 year old any longer. That was my favorite
Scotch.

--

[Lew Hodgett]

Robatoy wrote:

Yabbut.....for a righteous single malt? I am sooo lucky to have a
friend who has the financial wherewithal and curiousity to be buying
some outrageous scotch at prices which would give anybody with a Dutch
heart a coronary.
He hates to drink alone...God bless him....
A few drops of mineral water to awake a single malt is de rigueur.

I am soooo fighting NOT to become a scotch 'aficionado' because I
dislike almost all 'aficionados'. But I like that shit.

But ICE??????? For a soda, who cares. To plunge your pecker in after
round 5..okay. But, like Jackie Gleason said after the bartender asked
if he wanted ice in his drink: "I am here to drink, not to skate."

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The scotch doesn't exist that can't be improved with a splash of
drambuie.

Lew

[Lew Hodgett]

>> The father of a friend of mine was out on the sidewalk with a gunny
>> sack
>> (burlap bag) with a block of ice in it. He was swinging it back and
>> forth
>> against the sidewalk when a car went by. He said loudly,"God damn
>> kittens!"

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"Dave Balderstone" wrote:
>
> You owe me a new keyboard... ROTFLMAO!

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Where I grew up, any cat more 1/4 mile from a barn was shot on the
spot.

No self respecting cat is going to walk away from a bowl of fresh milk
morning and night and a diet of fresh killed mice.

Lew

[Steve Barker]

now THAT's funny, right there, i don't care who you are.

[whit3rd]

On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:53:06 PM UTC-7, Robatoy wrote:
> On Sep 14, 4:10 pm, Swingman <k....@nospam.com> wrote:

> Yabbut.....for a righteous single malt? ...

> I am soooo fighting NOT to become a scotch 'aficionado' because I
> dislike almost all 'aficionados'. But I like that shit.
>
> But ICE???????

You Scotch drinkers are all missing something: at the right temperature,
a mint leaf can do amazing things to a simple oak-flavored Bourbon.

Besides, Bourbon is domestic, I can afford it. Ditto mint.
For a good Scotch, all I can afford is the splash of branch water...

[Larry W]

In article <4e718eb3$0$19707$c3e8da3$c8b7...@news.astraweb.com>,
Lew Hodgett <sails...@verizon.net> wrote:
<...snipped...>

>Where I grew up, any cat more 1/4 mile from a barn was shot on the
>spot.
>
>No self respecting cat is going to walk away from a bowl of fresh milk
>morning and night and a diet of fresh killed mice.
>

If it was a tomcat, a hike of a mile or 2 would not be unusual to get
to the nearest female in heat.



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[Swingman]

On 9/15/2011 5:55 PM, Larry W wrote:
> In article<4e718eb3$0$19707$c3e8da3$c8b7...@news.astraweb.com>,
> Lew Hodgett<sails...@verizon.net> wrote:
> <...snipped...>
>> Where I grew up, any cat more 1/4 mile from a barn was shot on the
>> spot.
>>
>> No self respecting cat is going to walk away from a bowl of fresh milk
>> morning and night and a diet of fresh killed mice.
>>
>
> If it was a tomcat, a hike of a mile or 2 would not be unusual to get
> to the nearest female in heat.

Not just limited to tom cats. Half-way 'round the world in some cases.

[Larry Jaques]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:22:09 -0500, Swingman <k...@nospam.com> wrote:

>On 9/15/2011 5:55 PM, Larry W wrote:
>> In article<4e718eb3$0$19707$c3e8da3$c8b7...@news.astraweb.com>,
>> Lew Hodgett<sails...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> <...snipped...>
>>> Where I grew up, any cat more 1/4 mile from a barn was shot on the
>>> spot.
>>>
>>> No self respecting cat is going to walk away from a bowl of fresh milk
>>> morning and night and a diet of fresh killed mice.
>>>
>>
>> If it was a tomcat, a hike of a mile or 2 would not be unusual to get
>> to the nearest female in heat.
>
>Not just limited to tom cats. Half-way 'round the world in some cases.

You _did_?

P.S: I take women around the world when I get a chance. No travel
involved. <wink, wink, nudge, nudge, knowwhatImean?>

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[SconnieRoadie]

Laphroaig? Really? Last time I had some it tasted like drinking
liquid smoke - mixed with rock salt. Glenlivet 21 when I'm feeling
flush... Balvenie Doublewood 12 yr or Redbreast Irish Potstill 12 yr
for daily consumption.

My opinion.

D'ohBoy

[Stuart]

In article <efydnVdXZ5NV3uzT...@giganews.com>,

Swingman <k...@nospam.com> wrote:
> As long as it's a single malt, and one word: Laphroaig

Ahhh, <eyes glaze over> beautiful stuff but Ardbeg is nice too.

> Too bad you can't buy the 15 year old any longer.

well you can - at a price - around 100 quid the last time I looked.

--
Stuart Winsor

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:00:54 +0100, Stuart <Spa...@argonet.co.uk>
wrote:

Yabbut, what does she loo...oops, never mind.

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