Yeah, and also I've seen ice from restaurants that looks and feels like snow. I wonder ... how they do that as well. :)
Curtis Delzer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice So how do places like Sonic get the crushed ice stuff they use. It is in little cubes, but they are soft. this ice is what we call "good ice" at my house. I craved it big time when I was pregnant the first time and this is apparently fairly normal as maternity wards in hospitals often have these machines there for the laboring women. My husband used to work in food service and he said that the ice machines filter the water for impurities too. Jennifer ----- Original Message ----- From: Max Robinson To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice I once got a tour of a restaurant's ice maker. There was a large, about 3 by 3 feet, sheet of stainless steel. It was at about a 45 degree angle inside the cabinet. It was the surface of the evaporator. water was pumped over it continuously. The water froze forming a sheet of ice on the surface of the plate. It gradually got thicker and thicker and when it was thick enough a sensor triggered the following actions. The compressor stopped and a heater warmed the plate. The sheet of ice slid off onto a series of wires running in the direction the ice sheet slid. These had some electric current flowing through them and quickly cut through the sheet cutting it into long square rods of ice. These then fell onto a second set of wires running in the other direction. This cut the rods into little cubes of ice which then fell into the holding box from which the restaurant workers could scoop out as much ice as they needed at the moment. Because the water flowed continuously there was very little dissolved air which is mainly what makes ice cloudy. The cubes were about a half by a quarter by a quarter inch. Technically not really cubes. Regards. Max. K 4 O D S. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Transistor site http://www.funwithtransistors.net Vacuum tube site: http://www.funwithtubes.net Music site: http://www.maxsmusicplace.com To subscribe to the fun with tubes group send an email to, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "tunecollector" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:50 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] clear ice > Not that I can tell now but I wondered how restaurants and bars get their > ice so clear while the cubes out of my freezer are so cloudy. I had > tried > various experiments to obtain clear ice cubes but, alas, no luck. How do > they make that ice so clear? > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the > following address for more information: > http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.19/1008 - Release Date: > 9/14/2007 8:59 AM > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
