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RadioDays <[email protected]>

13/09/2011 4:57 PM

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

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


This topic has 23 replies

DB

Dave Balderstone

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 2:51 PM

In article <[email protected]>, Kerry
Montgomery <[email protected]> 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!

Sc

Sonny

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 11:07 AM

>
> 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

JA

"Joe AutoDrill"

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 8:13 AM

"RadioDays" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:be333979-8e81-49cf-957b-d8ff3b08661b@j13g2000prj.googlegroups.com...
>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

How about a hammer?

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LH

"Lew Hodgett"

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 10:30 PM

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

Lew


LH

"Lew Hodgett"

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 10:35 PM


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


SS

Stuart

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

19/09/2011 11:00 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
Swingman <[email protected]> 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


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whit3rd

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 10:39 AM

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
> <[email protected]> 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.

Rc

Robatoy

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 11:49 AM

On Sep 14, 2:07=A0pm, Sonny <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. =A0The inside scrapers are blades, about
> 2" long, mounted each side of a disc, similar to looking at the bottom
> of a hand planer. =A0Load 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

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

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

13/09/2011 7:25 PM

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:57 -0700 (PDT), RadioDays
<[email protected]> 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. 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

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.

--
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember
and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
-- Whoopi Goldberg

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to Larry Jaques on 13/09/2011 7:25 PM

19/09/2011 4:42 PM

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:00:54 +0100, Stuart <[email protected]>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> Swingman <[email protected]> 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.

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

--
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description
of a happy state in this world.
-- John Locke

ww

whit3rd

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

15/09/2011 11:50 AM

On Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:53:06 PM UTC-7, Robatoy wrote:
> On Sep 14, 4:10=A0pm, Swingman <[email protected]> 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.
>=20
> But ICE???????=20

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...

Rc

Robatoy

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 1:53 PM

On Sep 14, 4:10=A0pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --www.e-woodshop.net
> Last update: 4/15/2010
> KarlC@ (the obvious)http://gplus.to/ewoodshop

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."

SB

Steve Barker

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

15/09/2011 12:42 AM

On 9/13/2011 11:59 PM, Kerry Montgomery wrote:
> "Steve Barker"<[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On 9/13/2011 6:57 PM, RadioDays 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. 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
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> --
>> Steve Barker
>> remove the "not" from my address to email
>
> 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
>
>

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

--
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remove the "not" from my address to email

SB

Steve Barker

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

13/09/2011 11:14 PM

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

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!

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

Sk

Swingman

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 3:10 PM

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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http://gplus.to/ewoodshop

Ll

Leon

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 11:18 AM

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




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SconnieRoadie

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

19/09/2011 11:37 AM

On Sep 14, 7:16=A0pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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'. =A0But 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.
>
> --www.e-woodshop.net
> Last update: 4/15/2010
> KarlC@ (the obvious)http://gplus.to/ewoodshop

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

ww

willshak

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 4:46 PM

RadioDays wrote the following:
> 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


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

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Sk

Swingman

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

14/09/2011 7:16 PM

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.

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Last update: 4/15/2010
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http://gplus.to/ewoodshop

KM

"Kerry Montgomery"

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

13/09/2011 9:59 PM


"Steve Barker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On 9/13/2011 6:57 PM, RadioDays 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. 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
>
> 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!
>
> --
> Steve Barker
> remove the "not" from my address to email

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

lL

[email protected] (Larry W)

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

15/09/2011 10:55 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
Lew Hodgett <[email protected]> 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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with the average voter. (Winston Churchill)

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LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

15/09/2011 7:20 PM

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:22:09 -0500, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 9/15/2011 5:55 PM, Larry W wrote:
>> In article<[email protected]>,
>> Lew Hodgett<[email protected]> 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?>

--
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Sk

Swingman

in reply to RadioDays <[email protected]> on 13/09/2011 4:57 PM

15/09/2011 7:22 PM

On 9/15/2011 5:55 PM, Larry W wrote:
> In article<[email protected]>,
> Lew Hodgett<[email protected]> 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.

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