Well, it seemed like we may as well get the obvious punchline over with right at the beginning. Mocha, a UK company with a eccentric home gadget line--specializing in items like Swarovski crystal egg crackers and mugs with built-in cookie holders--now offers these tres barbarique drink coolers. The Nordic Rock stone ice cubes are genuine chunks of "pollution-free base rock" mined in Sweden--who else would invent this but some kind of Viking? Just pop the Nordic Rocks (in their charming leather pouch) into your freezer (or igloo) for an hour, then drop two or three into your cocktail. On the practical end, they help conserve water and prevent your precious booze from being diluted. Impractically, you get to walk around drinking from a glass full of rocks--whether you use the opportunity to play practical jokes or share your best Hagar the Horrible/Kirk Douglas in The Vikings impersonation is up to you.
9-30-2008 @3:21PM kevin said... Wouldn't dropping them in most glasses shatter them?
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9-30-2008 @6:00PM Michael Schmitt said... If you ever see someone slam a glass into a container of ice cubes to fill the glass with those cubes, be sure to check the rim for splinters of glass that may have chipped off.
If you throw rocks into your glass, be sure to keep the broom and dustpan out, just in case...
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9-30-2008 @8:37PM JMForester said... The whole purpose of ice in a cocktail or spirit, besides cooling it down, IS TO DILUTE IT, to add water, lower the proof, and bring out the flavors. Cocktail recipes are created to have that dilution from the water. Otherwise they would be out of balance and undrinkable.
Spirits need water to open them up. The tongue can't handle more than small amounts of high proof spirits at a time before going numb to flavors. Cold, pure spirits, without being watered down would have very little of the flavor available, because chilling drops the access to flavors. These rocks are a really silly idea. -JMF-
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10-01-2008 @12:28AM Amber said... I agree with Jonathan, putting them in any type of cocktail seems odd...but there's always the option of whipping them out for any non-acoholic party one might be throwing.
Then again, it would be hilarious to wait until one's guests are slightly tipsy before dropping them in the next round of drinks...
;-)
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