Friday night my sister-in-law and I threw a little Halloween bash. To hold our homemade root beer we made a drink dispenser out of a pumpkin!
And I learned a thing or two about dried ice. Most importantly, you can’t buy it a week in advance! Haha!
To make one, all you need is a pumpkin, a carving tool, and a plastic spigot. First off, gut your pumpkin. Once you’ve scraped it nice and clean, trace the end of the spigot onto the pumpkin and cut it out. Stick the spigot in and secure it with the washer and jam nut.
Fill it with your favorite drink and party!
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You must be extremely careful when ingesting food that had been treated with dry ice! I have read an article about person needing an emergency gastrectomy after ingesting a drink make with liquid nitrogen. Yes LN is different than dry ice, but still caution should be taken with these sorts of things!
Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is used primarily as a cooling agent. Its advantages include lower temperature than that of water ice and not leaving any residue (other than incidental frost from moisture in the atmosphere). It is useful for preserving frozen foods, ice cream, etc., where mechanical cooling is unavailable.
It’s also made of the same gas as the bubbles in your carbonated sodas.
Don’t drink liquid Nitrogen, that makes you stupid.
Just don’t touch the dry ice with your skin and you’ll be fine.
This looks amazing! However, do you just throw the dry ice in with the drink?
Yes, after you’ve mixed the ingredients for the homemade root beer you place the dry ice in. Are you referring to a drink other than homemade root beer? I’ve never seen it used with another drink, but I suppose it could be done!
Where do you buy a spigot???
Click on spigot above and it will take you to the website that I bought mine from. It was only about $5.00!
You can also coat the inside of the pumpkin with parrafin for those of you who are concerned about the pumpkin flavoring your drink. This is a really cool idea!
This is a great idea. I’m sure a watermelon would be cool for summer drinks.
This is amazing, what a great & simple idea!