Drinks with ice
The basic three types of ice and their use for cocktails and drinks.
- Crushed ice
- Ice cubes
- Clear ice blocks
Before we go through the 3 types of ice cream, we want to give you the most important tip of them all:
Always use plenty of ice to both shake with and in your glass.
Artificial ice cream is good to blend with. In drinks, it works well if you need to quickly cool down your drink, but it also dilutes your drink the fastest, as the surface of crushed ice is large.
Ice cubes provides slower dilution in your drink. The larger the ice cubes, the slower both cooling and draining.
Clear ice blocksused in cocktail bars, most often for alcoholic cocktails to be enjoyed slowly. Clear ice blocks are also a sign of clean water and thus do not affect the taste of your drink.
We would also recommend shaking with ice cubes and preferably as large and compact ice cubes as possible. A place where we buy good ice cream is istifest.dk, as they have both good large and small ice cubes. Some supermarkets and kiosks also have ice cream, but the quality varies, so you should test it. However, try to avoid shaking with ice that you have frozen in ice cube bags yourself, as it can be too fragile.
