Whiskey in the jar part II

March 16th, 2008 by MjP

After unsuccessful attempt to photograph ice on the whiskey glass I decided to try it again. This time main idea was to use artificial “ice cubes”, non drinkable liquid and quality crystal glass.

Friend of mine told me about article in foodesigns.com e-magazine where ice cubes where made from transparent candle gel. So I went to local craft shop and bought small pot of candle gel (cost was something like 9 euros). Here is what I did to get these artificial ice cubes shown on photos in this post.

  • I poured melted gel to rectangular shaped vase about 1 inch thick
  • Waited until the gel was firm again. Then I did take the gel “block” out from the vase and cut it nice cubes
  • After that the fun part begin (and most dangerous one). I removed little bit gel from edges of the cubes (make more realistic looking cubes). Then I took candle to melt the edges carefully (remember that gel is used for candles so it will burn quite easily. So be extra careful on this part if you try to do fake ice cubes). You can easily mold cubes any shape you like with heat source.
  • Result was realistic looking fake ice-cubes which does not melt in room temperature :) .

Just cubes in the glass:

Empty glass with fake ice cubes

And the whisky (coke with water) on the rocks:

Whisky with artificial ice cubes

I think the result is quite nice and these cubes were great to work with. Next time I had to try it with soda and other liquids. The lightning setup was similar to first attempt to photograph ice and whiskey.

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