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  • Techniques and Methods

    Specific Heat, Heat of Fusion and Why Alcohol Makes Ice Melt

    Ice carries 80 calories of chilling power per gram, which is why it beats almost everything else at the bar. Dave Arnold explains specific heat, heat of fusion, and why ice melts in a martini, the same logic as salt on ice for ice cream.

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    3 min read

  • Techniques and Methods

    Plastic Soda Bottles and the Sodastream: What to Know

    Dave Arnold's practical notes on carbonation bottles: which sizes he stocks, what PET can and cannot take, why plastic bottles go flat in weeks, the new short caps, and the foam trap in a Sodastream.

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    4 min read

  • Techniques and Methods

    Measuring CO2 in a Drink, Champagne Loss, Foam and How Bubbles Form

    Weigh the bottle before and after to know how much CO2 went in. Dave Arnold also shows how much a pour loses (11.5 to 8.4 g/l in champagne), why foam control is nine-tenths of good carbonation, how bubbles form like balloons, and what a volume of CO2 is.

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    4 min read