NY Times Strands
- Steely_D - Apr 22, 2024 - 11:48pm
Trump
- Steely_D - Apr 22, 2024 - 11:16pm
Wordle - daily game
- NoEnzLefttoSplit - Apr 22, 2024 - 9:59pm
Dialing 1-800-Manbird
- Manbird - Apr 22, 2024 - 9:24pm
YouTube: Music-Videos
- Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2024 - 7:42pm
The Obituary Page
- miamizsun - Apr 22, 2024 - 6:26pm
Ukraine
- haresfur - Apr 22, 2024 - 6:19pm
Israel
- Beaker - Apr 22, 2024 - 2:30pm
songs that ROCK!
- Steely_D - Apr 22, 2024 - 1:50pm
One Partying State - Wyoming News
- Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2024 - 12:39pm
Bug Reports & Feature Requests
- q4Fry - Apr 22, 2024 - 11:57am
NYTimes Connections
- maryte - Apr 22, 2024 - 11:28am
Song of the Day
- oldviolin - Apr 22, 2024 - 9:59am
Republican Party
- R_P - Apr 22, 2024 - 9:36am
Mini Meetups - Post Here!
- ScottFromWyoming - Apr 22, 2024 - 8:59am
Malaysia
- dcruzj - Apr 22, 2024 - 7:30am
Radio Paradise Comments
- miamizsun - Apr 22, 2024 - 7:05am
Mixtape Culture Club
- miamizsun - Apr 22, 2024 - 7:02am
Canada
- westslope - Apr 22, 2024 - 6:23am
Today in History
- Red_Dragon - Apr 22, 2024 - 5:45am
Russia
- NoEnzLefttoSplit - Apr 22, 2024 - 1:03am
Broccoli for cats - you gotta see this!
- Bill_J - Apr 21, 2024 - 6:16pm
TV shows you watch
- Manbird - Apr 21, 2024 - 5:25pm
Name My Band
- DaveInSaoMiguel - Apr 21, 2024 - 3:06pm
What's that smell?
- oldviolin - Apr 21, 2024 - 1:59pm
Main Mix Playlist
- thisbody - Apr 21, 2024 - 12:04pm
George Orwell
- oldviolin - Apr 21, 2024 - 11:36am
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •
- oldviolin - Apr 20, 2024 - 7:44pm
What Did You See Today?
- Welly - Apr 20, 2024 - 4:50pm
Radio Paradise on multiple Echo speakers via an Alexa Rou...
- victory806 - Apr 20, 2024 - 2:11pm
Libertarian Party
- R_P - Apr 20, 2024 - 11:18am
April 2024 Photo Theme - Happenstance
- fractalv - Apr 20, 2024 - 8:40am
Remembering the Good Old Days
- kurtster - Apr 20, 2024 - 2:37am
Would you drive this car for dating with ur girl?
- kurtster - Apr 19, 2024 - 10:41pm
Vinyl Only Spin List
- kurtster - Apr 19, 2024 - 9:21pm
The Abortion Wars
- Red_Dragon - Apr 19, 2024 - 9:07pm
Words I didn't know...yrs ago
- Bill_J - Apr 19, 2024 - 7:06pm
Things that make you go Hmmmm.....
- Bill_J - Apr 19, 2024 - 6:59pm
Baseball, anyone?
- Red_Dragon - Apr 19, 2024 - 6:51pm
MILESTONES: Famous People, Dead Today, Born Today, Etc.
- Bill_J - Apr 19, 2024 - 6:44pm
2024 Elections!
- steeler - Apr 19, 2024 - 5:49pm
Ask an Atheist
- R_P - Apr 19, 2024 - 3:04pm
Joe Biden
- oldviolin - Apr 19, 2024 - 8:55am
Country Up The Bumpkin
- KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 19, 2024 - 7:55am
how do you feel right now?
- miamizsun - Apr 19, 2024 - 6:02am
When I need a Laugh I ...
- miamizsun - Apr 19, 2024 - 5:43am
Live Music
- oldviolin - Apr 18, 2024 - 3:24pm
What Makes You Laugh?
- oldviolin - Apr 18, 2024 - 2:49pm
Robots
- miamizsun - Apr 18, 2024 - 2:18pm
Museum Of Bad Album Covers
- Steve - Apr 18, 2024 - 6:58am
Europe
- haresfur - Apr 17, 2024 - 6:47pm
USA! USA! USA!
- R_P - Apr 17, 2024 - 1:48pm
Business as Usual
- black321 - Apr 17, 2024 - 1:48pm
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum
- VV - Apr 17, 2024 - 1:26pm
Science in the News
- Red_Dragon - Apr 17, 2024 - 11:14am
Magic Eye optical Illusions
- Proclivities - Apr 17, 2024 - 10:08am
Photography Forum - Your Own Photos
- Alchemist - Apr 17, 2024 - 9:38am
Just for the Haiku of it. . .
- oldviolin - Apr 17, 2024 - 9:01am
HALF A WORLD
- oldviolin - Apr 17, 2024 - 8:52am
Little known information... maybe even facts
- R_P - Apr 16, 2024 - 3:29pm
260,000 Posts in one thread?
- oldviolin - Apr 16, 2024 - 10:10am
WTF??!!
- rgio - Apr 16, 2024 - 5:23am
Australia has Disappeared
- haresfur - Apr 16, 2024 - 4:58am
Earthquake
- miamizsun - Apr 16, 2024 - 4:46am
It's the economy stupid.
- miamizsun - Apr 16, 2024 - 4:28am
Eclectic Sound-Drops
- thisbody - Apr 14, 2024 - 11:27am
Synchronization
- ReggieDXB - Apr 13, 2024 - 11:40pm
Other Medical Stuff
- geoff_morphini - Apr 13, 2024 - 7:54am
Photos you have taken of your walks or hikes.
- KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 12, 2024 - 3:50pm
Things You Thought Today
- Red_Dragon - Apr 12, 2024 - 3:05pm
Poetry Forum
- oldviolin - Apr 12, 2024 - 8:45am
Dear Bill
- oldviolin - Apr 12, 2024 - 8:16am
Radio Paradise in Foobar2000
- gvajda - Apr 11, 2024 - 6:53pm
New Song Submissions system
- MayBaby - Apr 11, 2024 - 6:29am
No TuneIn Stream Lately
- kurtster - Apr 10, 2024 - 6:26pm
|
Index »
Radio Paradise/General »
General Discussion »
Overheard
|
Page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 |
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 6:47pm |
|
Prodigal_SOB wrote: I'm kind of a cube man myself but I would think a small glass with thin walls and a thick bottom might be just as good a thing for the purist to keep in the freezer as anything else. Talk about your nerd sniping: Thin walls? So you'd handle this with gloves then?
|
|
Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 5:09pm |
|
haresfur wrote: You need to consult the chemists too - the delta-H of mixing melted ice into the alcohol also contributes to the cooling. Another reason to use high proof booze. But, yeah, I like the way the taste evolves in the glass as ice melts.
storing your "stones" in liquid nitrogen sounds like a Chuck Norris joke
How much you can bring the temperature down is mostly about the total heat the cold substance can take out of the warmer whisky before thermal equilibrium is reached. I suspect that any heat loss through evaporation is negligible and the difference made by diluting even less. The real determining factors are the mass and specific heat of the cold stuff plus in the case of the ice the latent heat of fusion. I am still trying to avoid actually looking up numbers and doing calculations but the liquid nitrogen was a bit of an over statement. As Scott said over the range from the ice box to equilibrium temperature heat of fusion is going to be the dominant factor. Even without it though there aren't many things with a higher specific heat water either. I should really have been thinking about specific heat times density to get the heat for equal volumes of ice and stone as opposed to equal mass though. I would guess water still has the edge but they're on the same order of magnitude. Without looking it up I would guess Scott's stone or some specialized glass or ceramic would be a better choice of material than miami's stainless steel. Not knowing for sure is what may eventually drive me to looking up the actual numbers. Back when I was in college and had a Swede for a roommate we always had a bottle of aquavit in the freezer and generally a few shot glasses as well just to keep that much colder. I'm kind of a cube man myself but I would think a small glass with thin walls and a thick bottom might be just as good a thing for the purist to keep in the freezer as anything else. Nerd Sniping
|
|
haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 3:41pm |
|
Prodigal_SOB wrote: I think you will find pretty much universal agreement among physicists on this point as well. IME if you were storing your "stones" in liquid nitrogen until you need them they still might not chill it as much.
You need to consult the chemists too - the delta-H of mixing melted ice into the alcohol also contributes to the cooling. Another reason to use high proof booze. But, yeah, I like the way the taste evolves in the glass as ice melts. storing your "stones" in liquid nitrogen sounds like a Chuck Norris joke
|
|
Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 9:30am |
|
ScottFromWyoming wrote:I have zero doubt whatsoever that your experience in this area is conclusive. I was going to get more physicsy but can't remember is it 80 calories* per gram going from ice to water? That's a lot of oomph for a few chips of ice. *I know it's real calories not the food kcal but still I certainly wasn't going to actully look anything up or get out a calculator but that is the number I was using and I have a lot more confidence in it than the -200 C I pulled out of the air for the liquid nitrogen
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 9:08am |
|
Prodigal_SOB wrote: I think you will find pretty much universal agreement among physicists on this point as well. IME if you were storing your "stones" in liquid nitrogen until you need them they still might not chill it as much.
I have zero doubt whatsoever that your experience in this area is conclusive. I was going to get more physicsy but can't remember is it 80 calories* per gram going from ice to water? That's a lot of oomph for a few chips of ice. *I know it's real calories not the food kcal but still
|
|
Prodigal_SOB
Location: Back Home Again in Indiana Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 8:42am |
|
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Of course purists don't want the chill because that deadens the taste buds somewhat...
I got some of those "whiskey stones" that are in the freezer right now, but... I usually like the slight dilution an ice cube gives me, plus the chill... the melting takes out more heat than simply warming the stones... that is, a little ice chills better than a lot of rock. IME.
I think you will find pretty much universal agreement among physicists on this point as well. IME if you were storing your "stones" in liquid nitrogen until you need them they still might not chill it as much.
|
|
miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 8:27am |
|
ScottFromWyoming wrote: Of course purists don't want the chill because that deadens the taste buds somewhat...
I got some of those "whiskey stones" that are in the freezer right now, but... I usually like the slight dilution an ice cube gives me, plus the chill... the melting takes out more heat than simply warming the stones... that is, a little ice chills better than a lot of rock. IME.
the bolded is me too
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 7:33am |
|
miamizsun wrote:for the purist that wants to chill, try stainless steel "ice" cubes Of course purists don't want the chill because that deadens the taste buds somewhat... I got some of those "whiskey stones" that are in the freezer right now, but... I usually like the slight dilution an ice cube gives me, plus the chill... the melting takes out more heat than simply warming the stones... that is, a little ice chills better than a lot of rock. IME.
|
|
miamizsun
Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP) Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 26, 2015 - 7:22am |
|
islander wrote:Next to me at the bar last night:
"That girl's picture is everywhere, she has no selfie control"
I almost spit bourbon.
that's funny some folks enjoy bourbon or scotch at room temp or with an ice cube for the purist that wants to chill, try stainless steel "ice" cubes
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 2:06pm |
|
ScottN wrote: That's how I do my favorite—Woodford Reserve. Sometimes I'll add a mini-cube or two. I've come to bourbon recently and really have come to appreciate some. But I have found many highly regarded bourbons to baffle me as to their appeal. Mostly, I am a red wine guy.
The more exotic, the more "scotchy" they seem to become. I had some higher-end Pappy at Christmas and it's remarkably not much at all like your standard bourbon. Still bourbon, but with so much more going on. Our last two bourbons have been Trader Joe's... at $15 it's a great mixer but it's also fine neat. Not complex but very reminiscent of Woodford, altho I think it's probably closer to Buffalo Trace, but I've only had that once or twice... edit: No selfie-control
|
|
haresfur
Location: The Golden Triangle Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 1:48pm |
|
ScottN wrote: That's how I do my favorite—Woodford Reserve. Sometimes I'll add a mini-cube or two. I've come to bourbon recently and really have come to appreciate some. But I have found many highly regarded bourbons to baffle me as to their appeal. Mostly, I am a red wine guy.
I'm partial to Russell's Reserve but really the only thing drinkable and affordable here is Wild Turkey (affordable being relative - it's still $40). I usually make an Old Fashioned (a real one - not one of those Wisconsin things) or a Sazarac.
|
|
ScottN
Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 9:41am |
|
islander wrote: Red_Dragon wrote: P's brother recommended that to us but we haven't been able to find it down here in the bible belt.
It's really good, get it with a slight chill and enjoy it neat. That's how I do my favorite—Woodford Reserve. Sometimes I'll add a mini-cube or two. I've come to bourbon recently and really have come to appreciate some. But I have found many highly regarded bourbons to baffle me as to their appeal. Mostly, I am a red wine guy.
|
|
Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 9:34am |
|
islander wrote: It's really good, get it with a slight chill and enjoy it neat. That would be great, except for that whole not being able to find it thing.
|
|
islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 9:26am |
|
Red_Dragon wrote: P's brother recommended that to us but we haven't been able to find it down here in the bible belt.
It's really good, get it with a slight chill and enjoy it neat.
|
|
Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 9:02am |
|
islander wrote: That one was the Jefferson's Presidential select - very good stuff, I'd highly recommend it. I also had some Angel's Envy this weekend. It was okay, but a little light and not up the the reviews I've seen.
P's brother recommended that to us but we haven't been able to find it down here in the bible belt.
|
|
islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 8:51am |
|
ScottN wrote: What bourbon was it? That one was the Jefferson's Presidential select - very good stuff, I'd highly recommend it. I also had some Angel's Envy this weekend. It was okay, but a little light and not up the the reviews I've seen.
|
|
ScottN
Location: Half inch above the K/T boundary Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 8:43am |
|
islander wrote:Next to me at the bar last night:
"That girl's picture is everywhere, she has no selfie control"
I almost spit bourbon. What bourbon was it?
|
|
islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
|
Posted:
Jan 25, 2015 - 8:38am |
|
Next to me at the bar last night:
"That girl's picture is everywhere, she has no selfie control"
I almost spit bourbon.
|
|
kaupmees
Location: tried to miss 'em but he didn't quite Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 2, 2006 - 9:58pm |
|
|
|
ScottFromWyoming
Location: Powell Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 2, 2006 - 9:57pm |
|
|
|
|