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What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail?

What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail: fewer big cubes or lots of small ones? Hillary Shaw Newport, Shropshire, UK How fast the ice melts is by far the biggest influence on the temperature of your cocktail. It takes 334 joules of energy to melt 1 gram of ice, which is about 80 times the energy to raise 1 g of water by 1°C.

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