Dry ice

Does anyone have a place close to them where they can pick up a 1 pound block of food grade dry ice for next event?  If yes, please let me know price and such and I'll get you back.

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Slab or Pellets?

Slab is preferable but will take pellets if slab isn't available.

I'll get it. I know a place by me that sells it in slabs.

Cool just send me a PM and let me know how much I'll owe you.

Chris

PLEASE have GOOD insulating tongs to handle it with, and DON'T touch it... oh yeah, and don't swallow it.

Thanks
Michael

Thanks Mike, I have special gloves just for the ice. I'm used to handling this stuff at parties. It's not for food although food grade is the best, it's for atmosphere  8)

I spoke with the gentleman and he told me there really isn't a 'food grade' dry ice.

Any reccomendations on when I should get it/storage, Chris?

Food grade means the CO2  used to make the dry ice is the same quality CO2 as used for soda fountains and also the dry ice can be used to transport food and produce. Best scenario is pick it up as close to departure time to the camp as you can. Put it in a styrofoam container(ice chest).  The release of CO2 gas would make a less porous container eventually slpode (not joking).

Put it in your trunk if possible and crack your windows.  There is still going to be some CO2 release regardless where in the car it is and leaving your windows up will be a bad idea. CO2 build up is countered with good ventilation. And never handle with your hands, even if it comes in some kind of package. Thick gloves and/or thongs are preferable.

Thongs?


...Thongs?


I didn't know you could pick up dry ice with those! Sweet!

Only if they are from here Emily....

www.cafepress.com/Knight_Realms.108504181

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continentalcarbonic.com/locator/index.ph...=1&mile=10&go=submit
dryicecorp.com/consumerApplications.php   (They have a branch in Maspeth)
www.unitedcityicecube.com/home.nxg

Ok, the conversation about thongs and such may continue...

When I needed some dry ice to shrink some steel, I went to (in Philly) the Jack & Jill Ice Cream Company (which was closest to us of that kind of business).  They, along with Good Humor, use dry ice in their trucks.  It was cheap and easy.

Im sure back in the early 1950's they used ice in their trucks.


Now the trucks are refrigerated.


-Andy

After calling around, a pound of dry ice is very small. So small in fact, transport for over an hour would melt away.

We're talking about ten/fifteen pounds for a lasting block, but it's rather inexpensive. I'll be bringing a cooler to make sure the dry ice block is nice and cozy until use.

Nice one, Tom.  It was in the early 80s though, and many independent drivers used dry ice due to the expense of the refrigerated trucks.  I bought 10 pounds of it, which I transported two miles in a doubled cardboard container inside a cooler.  Handled the ice and the very cold steel bearings with welders gloves (a perfect choice, since the mating bearing was placed in an over at 300 F).

Just out of curiosity, why are we not suppose to handle dry ice with our hands?  When I was a kid my mother worked as a researcher at a lab doing toxicology/environmental and occupational health science at Rutgers, she would often get supplies which were packaged in dry ice and let me and my siblings play with it when she was done.  Was I placed in dire peril?  Does this explain anything about me?

it is cold enough to cause "freezer burn" on your skin with only a second or two touching it... its kinda like not licking a flag pole in the dead of winter.

After calling around, a pound of dry ice is very small. So small in fact, transport for over an hour would melt away.

We're talking about ten/fifteen pounds for a lasting block, but it's rather inexpensive. I'll be bringing a cooler to make sure the dry ice block is nice and cozy until use.

Tom,
Yeah a 10-15 pound block would be fine. The cooler should be like this

so you don't have a CO2 assplosion.

Just out of curiosity, why are we not suppose to handle dry ice with our hands?  When I was a kid my mother worked as a researcher at a lab doing toxicology/environmental and occupational health science at Rutgers, she would often get supplies which were packaged in dry ice and let me and my siblings play with it when she was done.  Was I placed in dire peril?  Does this explain anything about me?

Well that must have been the "food grade" I was talking about, those are less likely to burn you than the regular dry ice as they are safe to use around foods and such.

Says nothing about you Noah, but plenty about your mother. :)
I recall cleaning grease coated parts with carbon tetracloride with my father.  Driving my bike through clouds of DDT sprayed by suburban municiplaites to control mosquitoes. No one knew squat about side effects in the 50s and 60s.

Oh, I forgot - that dog don't hunt in the 80s and 90s.

After speaking with a dry ice distributer, a bigger cooler will keep it longer.

Dry Ice can be handled in small portions for a few seconds before burning. It's a solidified version of a gas.

Also, all dry ice is food grade. Food Grade means it's clean and nice.

It'll be good.