- Today's challenge, we
are trying to make a...
martini glass out of ice.
Because...
- Because I said so.
- This is an idea we had
for a couple of years now.
We haven't been able to do
it because it requires a
five axis Waterjet head.
And then we recently got one of those,
so now what's stopping us?
- I had just remembered that we had talked
about doing that forever ago.
So now it's time to do it.
- [Dan] So this is what we've
come up with our design.
We've had to design it in three pieces,
this is the top of it, obviously.
- And then the second
part is we have a stem.
Third part is the base, which
we've also got a chamfer on.
- [Dan] So, this is our test
to see if everything works.
Just doing a dry run with the pump off.
Then...
that's it doing a thing.
- [Mitchell] I think we're gonna need
to do faster than that.
- [Dan] We've got files that work,
which means next step is
picking up a block of ice,
and actually attempting it.
Nose goes.
- Goes.
- Goes where?
- [Dan] Get the ice.
- Oh.
- I'm hungry, so I'll go
cause I'm also gonna get food.
- [Mitchell] Don't buy Mountain brand ice.
(Dan laughs)
- [Dan] Yeah, we've got some concerns.
So, these blocks are not
a solid piece of ice.
It looks like they just packed together
the circle, tubular kind of ice.
What do you call that kind of ice?
- I go with circle, tubular, works for me.
- [Dan] Donut ice?
I don't know if this is gonna work.
I mean, we'll probably get it to work,
but it's not gonna look as cool.
So let's use these and see
if we can kind of create
a proof of concept.
(upbeat music)
- [Mitchell] Kind of blew out there, Dan.
The bottom of the hole is pretty ugly.
- [Dan] Oh, it exploded it.
- [Mitchell] It held together better
than I thought actually though.
I think maybe a little thicker?
- [Dan] You think low pressure?
- [Mitchell] Thicker and low pressure.
- [Dan] So we went back
to the drawing board.
Made a new one that is taller.
The walls of it are
about a half inch thick,
and the total height
of the top of the glass
is now almost four inches.
Which is that piece on the right.
And then we switched it so
that the pierce is vertical
on both sides.
We'll see if that helps it not blow out.
- We have no idea.
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] I have a feeling
that it's not blowing
out the bottom, that it's
just melting out the bottom.
- [Mitchell] (mumbles)
- [Dan] No.
- [Dan] It did get really garnety though.
- [Mitchell] Oh, that got real gross, Dan.
- [Dan] I think it was just
because it was going too slow.
- [Dan] So...
- [Mitchell] We need better ice.
That wouldn't hold drink very well.
- [Dan] We need better ice in the bottom,
I think it's melting out.
So the water, when it
comes out of the nozzle
it's pretty hot.
- [Mitchell] I'm also thinking that it's
splashing around here,
because like some of this
isn't pierced all the way through.
And so it's splashing back
here and melting the bottom.
- [Dan] You think the board is kind of
pushing it back up into the ice,
causing further melting.
- [Mitchell] I think so.
- [Mitchell] I think if we had a board
on either side of the block
and cut it in the middle.
- [Dan] Suspend it in the air.
- Suspend it, mhmm.
(drill whirs)
- [Mitchell] It's drilling all right.
- [Dan] Oh the bottom, well?
I mean if the block didn't
shift around so much.
It's like an eighth of an inch
there in a half inch there.
- [Mitchell] Yeah we'll need
to clamp it or something.
- [Dan] Well no, it's
because the bottom of it
was melting out and so the surface that
it was sitting on was changing.
Too much swamp monster got on to it.
- [Mitchell] I don't
think we're that far off.
I think solid ice wouldn't
melt as quick either.
this has got like--
- [Dan] Yeah, because
it's so porous it melts
- [Mitchell] It's got like pores and
it's got like, ice shavings in it.
(Banjo music)
- We are back at it again and it is now
three, four days later I can't remember.
And, we've done a lot of research.
- Yeah we wanted good ice, clear ice,
because the stuff we had was garbage.
In my research if you freeze
it inside of a cooler,
it's supposed to freeze
from the top down which
creates a section of clear ice.
- [Dan] I mean this is
already way better then
what we were finding although
it is, it's full of water.
- You can see the big cavity in there,
it's not complete clear ice.
(tool whirs)
- [Mitchell] I don't understand
why the ice froze that way,
but it looks pretty cool.
- [Dan] And we do have for the most part
a four inch thick block now.
(drill whirs)
- [Man] Go
- [Second Man] Awww.
[tool whirs]
- [Dan] So that, could have
been half of our glass.
Oh!
- [Mitchell] Could have been.
- [Dan] Well we've got
the other half of a block
so let's try a low-pressure
pierce test and see if that,
if it can survive that.
(tool whirs)
- [Mitchell] All right.
- [Dan] Oh, there it is!
- [Mitchell] Perfect!
- [Dan] That's exactly
what we were going for,
the entire time.
(beverage fizzes)
- Oh yeah that's nice.
- [Dan] Hey Mitchell, where did you get
that cool bottle opener?
- Oh this?
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- Thanks Dan.
- [Dan] Now the last thing
that we want to do is
this crazy shape, which...
it's hard to tell because
of all of the a...
- [Mitchell] Because
of the way that it is.
- [Dan] Because of the way that it is.
But, this is a giant diamond.
And all these yellow
lines are there to just,
it's just there to confuse you.
(tool whirs)
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] Oh don't lose it.
- [Mitchell] And that
is, part of a diamond.
(Dan laughs)
- This is how get caught up to say
stick to cutting stuff in half.
(Dan laughs)
- [Mitchell] Want to
try again on this corner
and then change the order?
- [Dan] Yeah.
Round two, new design. I
think this one will work!
(tool whirs)
(upbeat music)
- [Dan] That top bevel's barely there,
but I think it's enough
there to call it a diamond.
- [Mitchell] That's a diamond, 300 carats.
(upbeat music)
