How do YOU crush ice?

[Aunt Bea]

I use the flour sack dish towel for crushed ice.

I also put the drink and the ice in the blender together and make a slushy.

The slushy method makes great whiskey sours, a can of lemonade concentrate, a can of whiskey and ice cubes buzzed in the blender, topped with a maraschino cherry or two!

 

[taxlady]

When I go to MN later this month/next month, I'm hunting for that and for the ancient Chef's Choice knife sharpener--MINE. Hunting meaning they have SOOOOO much stuff, it is hard to find things that they haven't used in years, but both are most likely still there--they never part with anything unless forced!

Both of my parents passed away. I wonder if my sister has it.

 

[Cerise]

Crushed ice.making - YouTube

 

[Addie]

I squeeze the ice in just one hand. It doesn't dare not to crush.

 

[Hoot]

I squeeze the ice in just one hand. It doesn't dare not to crush.

Addie...Are you related to Chuck Norris?

 

[Chief Longwind Of The North]

Addie...Are you related to Chuck Norris?

She's Arnold's twin sister!

Seeeeeya; chief Longwind of the North

 

[Addie]

She's Arnold's twin sister!

Seeeeeya; chief Longwind of the North

I wish. I have lost the use of my index finger and thumb on my left hand. And the right hand is not that great either.

I can't bend my left index finger at all. And a doctor stuck an IV needle in my thumb and hit the nerve. It killed the thumb. And on the right hand, due to arthritis, I have nodules on every joint on every finger. So is life.

 

[justplainbill]

In our Oster blender with the ice crusher blade.

 

[FrankZ]

I have a ice blade thing for my FP.

I haven't tried that one yet.

 

[taxlady]

I have a ice blade thing for my FP.

I haven't tried that one yet.

Oh, that sounds perfect. I will soon be looking for a new FP and I'll be looking for that crushed ice blade. Hmm, I wonder if Stirling's old Braun FP has one. I'll Google to see what they look like.

 

[taxlady]

I use the flour sack dish towel for crushed ice.

I also put the drink and the ice in the blender together and make a slushy.

The slushy method makes great whiskey sours, a can of lemonade concentrate, a can of whiskey and ice cubes buzzed in the blender, topped with a maraschino cherry or two!

I've used the "slushy" method for frozen daiquiris. I don't think it's what I want for a mint julep.

 

[Oldvine]

I put the glass in the little niche in the refrigerator door and push it to the back. Crushed ice happens.

 

[LindaZ]

I push the button on the fridge door, easy peasy!

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Umm...I go to work and get a clean trash bag full of crushed ice. I can also get ice cubes...

 

[Addie]

Umm...I go to work and get a clean trash bag full of crushed ice. I can also get ice cubes...

Any time I am in hospital (as our UK friends like to say) I always ask for a pitcher of crushed ice, no water. I love to eat crushed ice.

 

[taxlady]

Any time I am in hospital (as our UK friends like to say) I always ask for a pitcher of crushed ice, no water. I love to eat crushed ice.

We tend to say it that way here in Canada too.

 

[chopper]

Old vine and Linda, you don't have to rub it in! No, I don't have that nifty little hole in the door of the fridge. . LOL

 

[Addie]

We tend to say it that way here in Canada too.

I love that expression. Another one I heard was in relation to what the Queen owns. The swans belong to Queen. My first husband came from the Lakes District in Cockermouth. Marrying him and I had to learn a whole new language. When I would get a baffled lok on my face, he would get so exasperated with me. He hadn't been in this country too long, so it was a learning lesson for him also.

I once read a book written my a former American soldier stationed in England during The War. It was hilarious. All about the differences in our language in common. Or not so common. He had desk duty and one lovely young lady asked him if he had a 'rubber.' He had to ask a male in the office why would she ask him that? He was in a state of shock. His first thought was that maybe it was her way of telling him he might get lucky that night. I was on the floor reading that book.

 

[gadzooks]

VitaMix 5200 works. Pulse a few times. Or, stick the pelican on the N50 with the ice crushing disk in it.That ice crushing disk also pulps tomatoes like nobody's business.

 

[Addie]

VitaMix 5200 works. Pulse a few times. Or, stick the pelican on the N50 with the ice crushing disk in it.That ice crushing disk also pulps tomatoes like nobody's business.

A funny bird, the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can.