Do you like your drinks shaken or stirred? How about completely frozen and on a stick? Ladies and gentlemen, gather around - I present to you: the Cocktail Popsicle. Or Cocksicle, if you will...
While it is impossible to freeze alcohol in a traditional freezer, liquid nitrogen is cold enough to make a boozy pop nice and firm. I got this idea from my Grandpa, who, back in his engineering days in the 50's, would enjoy a "bourbon-sicle" in the lab with his coworkers. They simply filled a dixie cup with bourbon, put a stick in it, and submerged the entire thing in liquid nitrogen.
After a few rounds of testing, I've developed a slightly safer process for making these pops on your own. Because when it's hot out, what's better than an extremely cold treat? An alcoholic one.
While it is impossible to freeze alcohol in a traditional freezer, liquid nitrogen is cold enough to make a boozy pop nice and firm. I got this idea from my Grandpa, who, back in his engineering days in the 50's, would enjoy a "bourbon-sicle" in the lab with his coworkers. They simply filled a dixie cup with bourbon, put a stick in it, and submerged the entire thing in liquid nitrogen.
After a few rounds of testing, I've developed a slightly safer process for making these pops on your own. Because when it's hot out, what's better than an extremely cold treat? An alcoholic one.
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You will need:
- Booze of choice
- Liquid Nitrogen - this is relatively easy to get your hands on, once you have a dewar for safe transit. I called up our local gas supplier (Praxair) who were able to fill up my dewer after I brought it down. For a large party, and quite a few popsicles and rounds of liquid nitrogen ice cream, we quickly went through 35 liters.
- Popsicle freezing containers - I went to the Container Store and bought out their supply of small travel containers. Their small, round Nalgene bottles held up well after freezing in LN2, and were easy to modify.
- Popsicle sticks - I found went to a restaurant supply store and bought some hearty coffee stirrers, which I then cut in half.
- Freezer space - so the popsicles can warm up after being frozen
- Safety equipment - high quality gloves for handling the LN2, and a large container for the LN2 pouring/freezing process, a smaller one for moving a little bit of the LN2
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Nitrogen when it fills a space, doesn't "Warn." You DON'T get light headed or out of breath, you just pass out almost instantly. If you are going to rescue someone who's passed out, keep in mind that the RESCUERS almost always have the exact same problem AND ALSO DIE! "Cold" rooms don't have air circulation. Watch out. Never, ever take a closed (passenger) elevator!!! The same with INSIDE A CAR. Don't hard stopper the Dewar.
An open container sitting in liquid N2 will condense the oxygen from the air into a liquid - not "might", but will. Liquid oxygen plus anything organic is a peachy - if variable - explosive. Not so good if that wasn't your intention.
Sorry if its a bummer. I work with liquid gases all day and I treat them like live cobras. Informative and fun but dangerous.
Instead, I would guess that the pops are "even more strong and boozy tasting" because cold temperatures inhibit our ability to taste, especially flavors that rely on smell. Thus, by freezing everything, the flavors would be diminished.
Burnt (mostly 3rd, but some 2nd) everything all the way down to his stomach where it would have done more damage had he not just eaten.
Chewing food was a no go for a week or so and drinking was a very painful for him.
If you would like to do a frozen cocktail, you don't need liquid nitro at all.
You add a 3rd water [measure the cocktail and add 1/3 in volume water].
If you like to do a strawberry margarita or daiquiri [or any other fruit - or mixer] you can add even less water.
The cocktail overall will have less than 20% abv and will freeze easily in the normal freezer [which is -20ºC].
Off course straight up spirits will freeze only at ca. -26ºC [for 40% abv] which is off course to low, for a domestic and even most commercial freezers.
Wait, what?
-BLUEBLOBS2
Just wondering How the cocksicle would come out if you sprayed the individual containers with a compressed gas from a nozzle.
But seriously, why not call em Poptails? Seems a bit more apetizing :P
â¢Rum
â¢Sake
â¢White Russian
â¢Fine 1948 Cogniac
â¢Margarita
â¢Absinthe
Sooooo glad I'm legal in the US!