Thread: Dry Ice: Is It Worth It?

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Originally Posted by TK421

I love Dry Ice. My local Fred Meyer has it for sale all year round at 99¢ a pound. I don't think it's all that good for chilling fog, but I love putting chips of dry ice into the cups of hot cider I give out. And it's loads of fun having bubbling apothecary jars and such.

Isn't that dangerous to put it into people's drinking cups?

I seem to have had much better success with dry ice than regular ice.
The fog stays low longer and it seems thicker.

I put some dry ice in baileys irish cream once and instead of having a drink I had pudding

Originally Posted by AmFatallyYours

Isn't that dangerous to put it into people's drinking cups?

It can be, you have to use good judgement. I serve hot cider. Believe me, it's hot. I have an old coffee caraf that keeps it piping hot.

When I say I put dry ice into the cup of cider, I am putting a dime-sized sliver of dry ice into 6-8 ounces of hot cider. The dry ice disolves almost instantly, but bubble like crazy for the first 5-10 seconds.

Remember with dry ice, the hotter the liquid, the more immediate and dramatic the reaction.

I may try dry ice this year. I never figured out a convenient way to catch/divert runoff water from my chiller last year.

Like in my thread i posted earlier, we converted a minifridge into a chiller. we have it on the coldest setting possible which basically turns it into a freezer. we measured and it was about 2 degrees f. it works great and with no matienence. the fog comes out and stays down until we want it to go up.

Wiz

I use dry ice for years and eyars now, and pay .60 cents a pound.
It works great has less mess, and makes the fog thicker and lower/longer hanging. I never have to wet the lawn, but may try this year.

NEVER store dry ice in your freezer folks!
It sublimates, off-gassing CO2.
This process is far colder than your freezer and will stop the freezer from actually running as the thermostat is not being triggered.
If you have a cat or small dog or creepy crawler kiddy on the floor when you open the freezer door, you could also knock them out from lack of oxygen, sad but true.

It is best to store dry ice wrapper in newspaper, in a long chill cooler, covered with 4-6" of foam. The cooler keeps the CO2 in the storage vessel, slowing the sublimation process (part of trying to reach equalibrium).

We demonstrated at GLFF the past 5 years the difference between fog from ice and dry ice.
It is a a drastic difference of quality of fog.

We also demonstrated the difference between run of the mill cheap fog jiuce, some "branded" fog juice, and Froggys - Froggys wins hands down, 400 people at GLFF got to check it out first hand.

IMO ZFroggys freezin, with dry ice, absolutely rocks.