trick question. You have to buy them 50 at a time.
Yes, my answer is also "none."
I just finished reading Billion Dollar Whale, which reinforced the notion that for the nouveau riche, the appearance of wealth often comes from wasting it. I suspect this product is designed for people who want to be confused for Kardashians.
wait wait wait what is wrong with B&O because i have dreamed of owning any one of their products for years.
They aren't terrible. But their appeal is a bit more architectural than electroacoustical. Ever seen a B&W Nautilus? They're the perfect example of "things that look cooler than they sound". I'll say this. B&O stuff looks cooler than most other stuff. But it does not sound better commensurate with its prices.
More than that! https://www.cockeyed.com/inside/goldschlager/goldschlager.html That's an old article too
I dispute the scientific basis of your link. https://www.flickr.com/photos/debcha/sets/72157600278056455/ It's probably 23 carat gold leaf. 23 carat leaf is 95.8% gold. 12.9mg x .958 = 12.3582mg of pure gold. There are 31,103.5 mg per Troy ounce. That means there are .000032151 troy ounces per mg. Gold is currently $12.26 per Troy ounce, so a single milligram of gold is worth 0.03942 cents. The amount of gold in Goldschlager, therefore, is worth $0.49 per bottle (48.712 cents as of 3:30 pm PST Oct 20 2018). I win.All of the gold in a one-litre bottle of Goldschlager weighed a total of 12.9 mg...As there was a small amount of silver detected, this indicates that the gold isn't pure and therefore would be worth slightly less.
This makes me mad, although I did order a drink once where the bartender employed this thing, which was kinda cool. We were both bored I think.
Well let's do the math. If you're using magic hit-you-in-the-teeth ice balls you're pouring something stupid like Pappy or some pompous scotch. You're buying the bottle for what? $1k? And you're selling it for $200 a shot? Let the night roll. Let a few high rollers get a little drunk. Pull up your fancy ice squisher and get a cube rolling. People ask. What the hell is that for? Well, you see, it's for super-top-shelf shit. And it's dope, drunk people. So now you're selling that $200 shot. And you're putting it in the $1500 ice squisher your boss bought. And you're making a 20% tip. That squisher just made you $40. I be squishin' ice all goddamn night, yo.
The whole minimum solutio dilution, maximum cooling line of reasoning smelled like bullshit to me. And efficiency doesn't have meaning until you explain what input and outcome you are measuring. Chipped ice in a shaker will coola drink faster -- more surface area. And a big sphere will cool it slower. If I have two identical drinks in identical glasses at the same temperature, and from the same freezer put a one ounce sphere in one and one ounce of chipped ice in the other I expect the chipped ice drink to reach freezing before the other. But i would expect the dilution when the drink reached freezing to be the same for each, since cooling should be proportional to the amount ice melted. If the ice chips melted (and diluted) much faster it's probably because it is doinga better job of keeping the drink and the glass evenly and thoroughly cold. If cold and undiluted is really that important, keep a bottle and a heavy mug in the deep freezer like grandma did, or try drinking faster. ------------------------------ Making clear pretty ice cubes is about reducing internal stress that causes cracks. Freezing slower helps. Wrapping an ice cube tray in a couple dish towels is enough to make noticably clearer cubes. Not $6.50 clear, but noticable.Glace Ice claims that the design of their cubes — which come in cube or sphere shapes — provide minimum dilution, maximum cooling, and should be enjoyed with "premium spirits."
The sphere is "the most efficient shape in nature" and "the most mathematically efficient way to cool your drink," according to the company's website.
Well that is a longer thread than I am going to read right now. Your right about an ice sphere being bigger than the amount of crushed ice anyone would put in a drink. I don't drink whiskey enough to actually care, so my decision is whether a big pretty sphere is worth the discomfort of a big pretty sphere hitting my nose.