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Episode 261 - The Ice Book with Camper English
In this frosty deep dive with cocktail scholar and author Camper English, some of the topics we discuss include:
The story of Camper's initial tumble down the ice rabbit hole, originating at the legendary New York bar, Milk & Honey, and resulting in a whole slew of at home experiments designed to test the thermodynamics and ergonomics of freezing water.
The theory and methods behind "directional freezing," and why Camper insists that you can make clear ice using pretty much any set of tools if you just understand what makes this approach work.
What we can learn from the way that lakes freeze…
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