GMMore 2012: What’s The Best Type Of Ice?

(rooster crowing) (monster growling) – Welcome to Good Mythical More. There is an ice for every beverage and every occasion. Let’s see if we can determine what it is. But first let’s give a $30 gift card to mythical.com to… Jazzy! For repping that GMM merch in the wild with #merchicality – (singing) Hoodie’s so cozy. I love it so much. You’re going to get some other stuff to go with it. Still doing this singing thing, you know? – And once you start you really can’t stop! – Okay. So the crew has been surveyed, right Stevie? – [Stevie] Yes! – And they’ve given their opinion on- – [Stevie] Well, do you want to go through the various different ices that are in front of you? – What type of ice works with all different types of beverage? – Starting on my side, we’ve got crescent ice, which is from a typical ice maker in the fridge. This is a weird shape though, like mine at home is not that short, I have longer. – Mine’s a little bit longer, but it’s still the same principle. – But you know what it is, crushed ice that you would get from like the thing on the front of the fridge that would take this ice, then crush it and put it into your cup. – You know what I hate, man? – [Stevie] I believe we’re calling that flake, by the way, – We’re calling it flaked? – [Stevie] Flake – I mean, some fridges call it crushed. – [Stevie] Yeah – What were you about to say? – I hate it when I go to get water and ice comes out. And I hate it even more when flakes come out because they go everywhere. Like we never do flakes at our house. – You want this to come out of it? – I want that to come out. – I don’t even have one of those in my fridge. – I don’t even want water to come out. – I don’t even have one on my fridge. I can’t get ice out of my fridge unless I reach down into the thing. – I’ve noticed. – Yeah. – Well, cause you know why? It takes up a lot of room in your fridge and we like food more than we like ice. – You know what you need? Another fridge. – Well, there’s one of those downstairs. – Well – I mean, but that also doesn’t do that. – This right here, it’s melting some, but this is the little crunchy barrel ice. – [Stevie] Nuggets. – Nugget ice – Nuggets. You can get it at Sonic. You can also get it at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. – Yes you can. – And then we’ve got like ice tray ice. – [Stevie] Cubes. – Ice cubes – Cubes. Thank you for clarifying and changing the name of all of them. – [Stevie] Well, as we go through this. I wanted everyone to know what we were talking about. So yeah, we’re starting with plain water. So your job is to guess what the majority of the crew, the ice the majority of the crew chose as their preference for water. – My preference is no ice and water. – Yeah. Yeah. – Let me just say that, but I don’t believe that’s an option. – And we agree. So that’s the correct answer. It’s hard to not go with the crunchy crunchy for any liquid. – [Stevie] I agree. – It’s so good. – [Stevie] It’s so superior to the rest. ‘Cause it all, ’cause there’s like so much of it. I feel like it ices just every little molecule and then you can just crunch on it forever. – But. Let me just say, and I don’t know if this is physically correct. I think that this ice when put in water, but not necessarily put in soda, has a tendency to turn into a snowball that kind of bunches up and hits you in the nose when you try to drink it. – Ooh – So I’m going to go with they wanted crescent ice – I think that is the best choice – Because crushed ice and water, I dunno, it’s just too close. – The shape of the crescents. Just it lets the water go around it. We’re going with- – Yeah, I’m going with crescents – [Stevie] So you’re both going crescent? – Yeah. 63% of the crew polled went with cube. In fact, crescent was the least picked situation. – Really? – Well it tied with flake. I’m not going to choose flake for anything. – I understand the cube. I guess cube for the same reason. It was just so far away from me that I forgot about it (laughs) – But it’s like squared or rounded and it doesn’t allow as much flow. So you’re wrong guys. (crew laughing) It was crescent. That was the correct answer. – Okay. All right. What else? – [Stevie] It’s interesting that you said ice tray ice, because in my mind there’s something like, slightly fancier about cubed ice to the crescent ice. And maybe that’s because the crescent ice is so easily gettable out of a freezer? – Can you chisel that for us? – [Stevie] You know, like you’ll see cubes in fancy cocktails. – Yeah, like- – Big cubes. – [Stevie] I mean usually larger cubes, but yeah. – This is Coke, right? – [Stevie] Coke. – I mean, just as a reminder The crunchy, crunchy, crunch barrel cube, nugget ice. – The barrels, Sonic barrels. – It just does something for me. – Oh, it’s so good. And it just looks good. Now you got to drink it pretty fast. I do think it melts. – We need to see if my theory is right. – If you throw it, you having trouble with… Chris is? Chris sound guy’s listening to the crunching of the ice. – Look, look, look! It turned into, look, it turned into one block. See how it does that in this? – It didn’t quite, but I know- – Look, it turned, it stayed into one thing. Whereas in the coke, look at that. – Because of the effervescence, – Look at that! You see that? Look how it formed one big cube in the water and not in the coke. – Yeah, it didn’t. You’re right. All right. We’re we’re going with the crushy crunchy. – [Stevie] I completely and totally agree with going with nugget. And somehow 52% of the crew picked cube, followed by nugget. Cube?! How, how, how could you? – Do we have any of those folks who said cubed in here? – We got a cuber? No one wants to own it. (crew laughing) – ‘Cause what’s the argument for cubed being best in Coke? – [Crew Member] I think it was the first option to vote on. (crew laughing) – The first option to vote on? I think it’s denser, so it melts slower. It might keep your drink colder, longer in theory? – Well, because I know that we’ve got, I know that we have another round where we’re going to talk about cocktail, and I don’t know what it is that makes cubed ice work better for a cocktail than it does for a Coke. I don’t, I haven’t really thought about this. I’ve never explored this. – [Stevie] Sprite. – Look what I found. – Sprite. – Again. – Why would it not just be nugget again? – Every soft drink should be the nugget. – Yeah. But it looks like water though. Does that mean anything? – I never used this for anything, but some people like, some people that like to chew ice and they can’t get their hands on this can create this in their own fridge. So I do think that this isn’t, that there’s an affinity group for the shards. – The argument for- – But it’s too unpredictable for me. – The argument for the nugget ice not being good would be that it being broken up so much, causes it to melt more quickly. Which means you get a more watered down beverage, and so you lose the taste a little bit. – Yeah. – So I could see somebody making that argument and saying that cubed would work best, but (sneezes) – [Stevie] Bless you. – If the crew voted differently for Coke and for Sprite, then you’re all psychopaths. – Yeah. So we’re sticking to our guns here. – We’re gonna say that you chose cubed, again. – [Stevie] Yeah. Good news. They did do the exact same thing. Somehow they picked cube over nugget. – ‘Cause they’re consistently wrong. – But crescent is, no one likes crescent ice, I feel bad for it. – [Stevie] Well, it’s just- – It’s boring. – [Stevie] Yeah. Yeah. – You know. – And it gets stuck on the side. You know what I’m saying? It like fits on the side and then that hits you on the lip and it’s like, “Ah, crescent ice!” – [Stevie] Chew it, you can’t really put it in your mouth. – Or you can, I’ll bite ice like this. – You know what, a crescent ice is really good for? (ice crunching) An ice pack. It’s like, it’s got that rounded edge and it’s got a flat edge. So depending on your like wound, you can like really focus some flat edges or some rounded edges. So it contours to the body. – You’ve been icing wounds lately? – I’ve been icing wounds. I’m a wound icer. – Hmm. – All right. Get rid of this. And we’re bringing in the, is this tea? – [Stevie] Mhmm. – Tea. Now, I mean, this just feels like, I think just for the nostalgia factor. – Right. – I think for nostalgia factor – Gotta go for the home cubes! – I think you gotta go for these, I think you gotta go for crescent. – Well… – Maybe even older-school is an ice tray. – Yeah, ’cause it’s ice, so I’m going ice tray for the nostalgia. – I’ll go with that. I’ll go with ice tray. – [Stevie] Yeah. They went with cubed again. Followed by crescent though, followed by crescent. – They love cubed. Crescent in 7%. – We got one flake in there. – Yeah. Flake is not, the good thing about flake. I’m saying flake, but I meant to say the nuggets. Nuggets work really well with fizz. 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Okay? – Okay. – Here’s a weird one for ice, milk. – [Stevie] I will say the bulk of the crew refused to answer this. – Yeah, I was about to say you’re psychopaths if you want ice in your milk. – So there’s only three people who voted and I also have all of their names. – Okay. So let’s just let’s guess who voted. – Give me the names, I’ll say what they voted for. – [Stevie] Emily, Mikayla and Mike. But we have several, who’s the Mike? Pasley. Okay. Emily, Pasley and Mikayla. – So, Mikayla is right there. – Mikayla, do you actually drink milk iced? – [Mikayla] No. – But you felt obligated to vote? – [Mikayla] Yeah, I felt bad that nobody else voted. – Okay. – Yeah, so I wonder if, hmm. – I mean, it seems gross to put the little cubes. – I think it’s gotta be the biggest cubes. – It’s gotta be the biggest one. – Cause you want the least amount of meltage. – Yeah. – [Stevie] So you think most of those three people chose the cubes? – Yes. – It is the right answer. – Two out of three. – If you have to ice it. – [Stevie] You are correct. Emily and Pasley chose the cubes, but Mikayla did not. – Mikayla chose the crescent. – [Stevie] Yeah. – Hey, look at that! – Why’d you choose the crescent, since you’re here? – [Mikayla] The shape? – You like the shape? – [Mikayla] I like the shape in ice. Hypothetically. – Hypothetically. You would never do it, but hypothetically you like the idea of it? – Mikayla better in ice than a big giant cube. – Yeah. – You, yeah. (crew laughing) – But what’s the point of putting ice in milk? – Woo! Levitating ice cube! (crew laughing) (gasps) I’m scared! – Hold on. – I’m scared! – I don’t even know what just happened. – It’s still happening, man. – How is it doing that? – Levitating ice cube! – How is the ice just hanging onto the side of- – It doesn’t, it’s abstaining too. Just like most of the- – (laughs) Yes. It’s like “Don’t do it!” – “I am not going in!” – “I live for just a moment, don’t put me in milk!” – “This is not how I wanted to go out!” – Okay. As long as you can hold on, you’re good. – All right. – [Stevie] Oh, I’m getting some good points from Emily via Slack. Emily are you on chat, can you talk? – [Emily] Yeah, I’m here. – [Stevie] Please, share. I mean, I can see that. – Emily- – [Emily] Yeah, I mean, an iced latte is essentially just iced milk with a little brown in it. – (laughs) Don’t ruin this for us. – Okay. – Emily – You’re calling an iced latte, ‘brown milk’? Is that your argument? – You are right though, you are right that- – [Emily] Well, I think I meant to say with a little coffee in it, but it came out the way it did, you know? – You’re not wrong about this. You’re not wrong that there’s essentially, especially if you get a lot of cream in like an iced coffee, that you are basically doing iced milk in that situation. And I gotta say, I have done that, and I felt nothing when I did it. – And I have to say, Emily, that the colder the milk, the better the milk. So… (ice cube rattling) – You convinced the ice cube! You convinced, the ice cube was like, “Okay, alright. You know, you’re right!” – Emily convinced me, and I convinced the ice cube. – Wow. You just could. Hey, listen. – Thank you, Emily. – You just changed the will of ice. – [Emily] No problem – You made ice change its ice mind. – I gotta give Emily half the credit for that. Orange juice. – [Stevie] This we had a little bit more of an uptick in participation to 12 people, and I don’t have their names. But that was like a third of the people who participated in other things. – This is still pretty psycho, to do this. – But warm OJ is almost as bad as warm milk. Not as bad. – But you always just get it out of the fridge and drink it pretty fast, if you’re me. – [Man From Crew] Would go into a screwdriver – Screwdriver? – Mmm, you’re right. – So that’s vodka? – It’s vodka and orange juice. And ice. – Gotta have that ice. You know what? I’m going to go, I think I’m going to go with the shards because I like the idea of drinking the smaller shards with the OJ. – Like pulp? – Are you a pulp or a no pulp? – I’m a no pulp. But I like it being so cold that it stays cold going all the way down. – I think this is cubed because of the cocktail association. – [Stevie] There’s one more that is the top one that you both- – Crescent? – [Stevie] Yeah. – Well maybe because you always get this from your fridge and they’re just right there and (indistinct). – [Stevie] That makes sense. – I like a little crushy crushy in my OJ. – Nobody said nugget? – It’s funny how humans make decisions that are based on intuition and feel not necessarily like, we have an interpretation of why this would work this way, but I don’t know if anyone could explain it. It’s just like, I don’t know, nuggets in orange juice sounds bad, but nuggets in Coke? Oh yeah. That’s great. – [Stevie] Are you a pulp, Rhett? – Yeah. ‘Cause I like to eat and it feels, it feels like eating oranges. – [Stevie] Yeah. I’m a pulp too. – Nobody likes flakes on anything. – [Stevie] Chase is a pulp too. – Flake has not been voted for for anything, right? – No flake hasn’t won anything. – And finally, we have a Moscow mule. – [Stevie] Sans the alcohol, YouTube. – No alcohol in this Moscow mule. – Now clearly, cubed won this one, but let’s, let’s explore why cubed is the best. And let’s explore why when you go to a fancy place and they give you a cocktail, that’s got one big ice cube. – That’s cool. – We’ve actually, you know, our friend Mike, you know, Science Mike. He’s quite, as you can imagine, because he’s, he’s sort of like a mad scientist. – He likes to mix a drink. – He’s a really good cocktail mixer as well. – Yeah. – And he gave me a drink the other day that had one of those big ice cubes in, at his house. How’s he getting? How’s he making one of those big ice cubes at his house? – I think you have to buy them, I mean- – [Stevie] You buy the mold ’cause you can also buy a big cylindrical mold, which is another cocktail favorite. So yeah. Anybody who’s really into cocktails has, has that ice. – It’s thick and cold, and I think it, so it reduces melting as much as possible. – It’s just the surface area is lower, so it reduced meltage. – Chris and I ate at a fancy place downtown, and they had really huge, fancy ice. And we were asking them about it. – “Tell me about your ice.” (crew laughing) – They do not. Well, what we learned was, by asking, that they do not make it on premises. They buy big ice cubes from a special supplier. – [Stevie] Well, I think if it’s clear, yeah. – It’s really hard to do the clear kind. – Oh. – It’s really hard to do. It’s a special process to get it to be completely clear and super, super fancy places downtown have the- – Well who’s to say I wasn’t there? – Spherical ice. Total sphere. – That’s nice. – Woo. That is just special, if you get one of those. – It’s just like, you know, if you swallowed it and started choking on it- – You just wait. – Yeah. That’d be the best advice. – [Stevie] You said cube, which is correct. But there’s a tie between two. And I think it’s pretty obvious what the tie is. – Well, it’s gotta be crescent. – [Stevie] No! In a Moscow mule? – Nuggets? – [Stevie] Yes! – Wow. – So, you’re a fan of this? – [Stevie] Yeah, a lot of fancy cocktail places will serve nugget ice. – I didn’t know that. – But why? – [Stevie] I don’t know. – For any drink or specifically a Moscow mule? – [Stevie] Specific drinks. Yeah. – Okay. – Well, look at that, we solved problem today. – You know what? Kiss your ice supplier today. – Let’s see if I can get a piece of ice to land on the rim again. – It’ll never happen. – [Link] Unleash your legendary style with our line of mythical grooming and personal care products. Available now at mythical.com

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