Post #774954 by AceExplorer on Tue, Apr 11, 2017 7:45 AM

Me too, me too! Hamo's post helped a ton when I went back and re-tried making ice cones.

I've not been making Navy Grogs at home cuz I have a huge list of other "project" cocktails I'm working through. I have, however, tried to make ice cones in preparation for Navy Grogs and other cocktails. I was not successful. My problem was that I was using my ice crusher instead of my blender, so the ice was never fine enough and the cones would break apart. But the blender-crushed ice is more like snow and easy to pack tightly into the plastic flute.

So I ran out and bought a couple of plastic champagne flutes at Dollar Tree for - $1. They work perfectly with fine blender ice and a straw inserted through the middle. The finished cone pops out quite easily, it has really good integrity and hardness, and is immediately bagged in a cheap sandwich baggie and stored in my freezer until needed later. Now I have six ice cones ready to go. I hope this additional info helps someone.

Also, in case this helps someone, Dollar Tree also sells large plastic "ice cream cones" normally intended for serving ice cream. They're about 8" or 9" tall. I bought several and failed with my rough ice, but I'm sure these would also work well with the fine ice to make larger "jumbo" ice cones. I'll try to post pics later when I try this. I'm thinking that jumbo cones of ice are good for when you need to put an ice feature into the middle of a bowl drink with a spent lime shell to make a flaming ice volcano. Hell, you could use a hubcap as a volcano bowl, ha!

I'll post a pic of the small champagne flute cone, plus the larger ice cream cone.

This stuff is really nerdy fun...