Good price for 6, nice way to cool down whisky without diluting.
Myer - Maxwell & Williams Reusable Ice Cubes Set of 6 Stainless Steel - $11.96 - Myer One
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"without diluting" and less heat capacity
? Not sure about heat capacity. The reason people use these is so no water gets in their drink. I think ice would have a substantially higher cooling capacity due to the phase change from solid to water.
In other words, if you don't finish your drink before the ice has melted, it would be colder with ice over metal.
You’re right (I’m no physicist though), but the latent heat energy of water is a fair bit.
I think the parent commenter was saying the same as you, that the steel block has less heat/cooling capacity. I wonder if they’re solid or have water inside. That’d be hard to manufacture though.
@GeneralSkunk: Change of state uses massive amounts of energy. It’s how refrigeration works. Will draw that energy from the whisky , cooling it down. Cold steel is just cold.
@0jay: Well you obviously know nothing about these things, why don't you google it and clear up your doubt instead of commenting? Solid stainless cubes would be extremely heavy and not very well suited for task. The whole point is to encase a liquid in a shell so it can't leak out.
@GhostofB: i've not used google in probly more than ten years, why not google why a person might avoid google?
liquids expand, also would make these very expensive to produce and altho i'm not a science/physics major i'd be willing to bet the trade off for a colder cube'd be a pretty limited improvement
willing to be wrong tho, but again if they're going to all this trouble to seal a gel/liquid in a stainless steel skin you'd reckon they'd spruik it with a bit more enthusiasm
Good quality whisky should only be slightly diluted, just a teaspoon of water. Mixer whisky - ice cubes are fine.
Each to their ownDo you realise how much water a teaspoon is compared to a serve of whisky? Unless you are scaling to problematic levels of drinking…
if y don have a drinking prob then y don love whisky
I only sip it, a small amount, the theory is a little bit of water opens up the flavour
filtered?
A dram is about 44ml / 1.5oz, and a teaspoon approx. 5ml…so 10% dilution sounds pretty tame, just enough to mellow it without losing too much character.
I have whisky stones for the good stuff to control added water, I usually add water and ice to the cheaper stuff
A single big cube or sphere with a small pour so there's minimal contact up the sides IMO adds a nice amount of water if you want it a tad softer. Small cubes or big pours don't help.
Nice. I can use these to cool my boiled eggs.
rye is diff from scotch tho a nice scotch neat can be pretty special
genuine question. If i were to do bottoms up with the stainless steel cubes in the glass, chanes of chipping my front teeth?
Regards
if it’s a performative bottoms up there’s a real and present danger
How is it different to ice?