I like ice cream. When I used to live in Kuala Lumpur, I ate every day from the luxurious "Magnum" to the colorful popsicles with "plenty of artificial sweets". Malaysia is summer all year round, so I ate hundreds of ice creams in total ... I have become completely unsatisfied with ordinary ice cream.

The author, who has "50% of his body" Magnum ", found the 100-yen shop Daiso's" Ice Bar Maker ". This is a container that allows you to make an ice bar with your favorite beverage. This time, I used this to make various soft drinks into popsicles. Take on the challenge of "liquor ice cream" that you can't usually taste. In addition, this "ice bar maker" has a somewhat dubious "straw" attached to the handle. I also examined what this straw is and how it can be useful.

■ What is an "ice bar maker"?

An "ice bar maker" is a container in which beverages are poured into a mold and cooled in a freezer to make an ice bar. The characteristic feature is that the straw protrudes sharply from the handle, creating an atmosphere not found in ordinary ice bar makers.


This time, we chose a beverage that matches the color of the handle. I tried to make it an ice bar.

■ Is anything really ice cream?

There are four color variations of the handle, pink, yellow, green, and blue. We prepared Nichirei's "Acerola of the Sun" for pink, "Tropicana" for yellow, and "Fruit Crystal" with kiwi and white grapes for green.

Not only soft drinks, but also ice cream for sake. I prepared Suntory's "Waikiki Blue Hawaii" in blue and tried to check the taste of sake ice cream that you can never meet with commercial ice cream.


■ How about actually making it?

Pour the beverage into the "ice bar maker". After pouring, cover the handle tightly and wait for it to freeze in the freezer. When I started chilling at 14:00 this time, the drink was frozen in ice in the evening. Only the blue "Waikiki Blue Hawaii" took a little longer than other soft drinks, so those who make ice cream with alcohol should be careful.




I took it out of the freezer and tried to remove the ice cream immediately, but I couldn't remove it probably because it was frozen. Looking back at the instruction manual, "Hmm, I'm in trouble (Makoto Shiina)", I found a sentence "Please soak it in water for a while and melt the outside of the ice to make it easier to pull out." As instructed, I put the ice bar maker in a bowl of water and waited for several tens of seconds, and I was able to pull it out quickly.



■ What is the taste?

All the ice creams were delicious as I expected, but the ones that were popular in the editorial department were the Tropicana and Kiwi flavors. It has a refreshing taste and a good aftertaste.

On the other hand, Blue Hawaii has a noticeable bitterness, probably because it was alcohol, and the impression is that the taste is weaker than when it was liquid. Also, the strength of alcohol seems to be a little weaker than when it was a liquid. Even so, I am vulnerable to alcohol, so I got drunk lightly as I continued to eat.

When frozen in the freezer, the substances contained in the beverage settle, so the taste of the tip is strong and the handle is thin, which is common to all ice creams. For those who say that the delicious part is the last, you may want to remove the ice cream from the handle and eat it. However, if you do so, you will not be able to enjoy the "sucking" straws on the handles that make this ice bar different from ordinary ice bar makers.

■ It can be melted!

What is this straw that sticks out about 3 cm from the side of the handle and gives a mysterious impression to the viewer?


Actually, this straw is for enjoying the ice cream to the fullest.


When you eat ice cream, the melted ice cream sometimes melts. With this straw, you can suck the liquid that falls from the tilted side of the ice to the ground without getting into your mouth with a normal ice bar, through the handle part that catches it tightly. This allows you to taste 100% of the ice cream and keep your hands clean.

■ Finally

An "ice bar maker" that not only reduces the cost of ice cream, but also creates an unknown taste. It's a fun product that transforms your drinking juice or liquor into ice cream. However, no matter how much ice cream is, children shouldn't eat alcoholic ice cream.

Of course, the price is 108 yen (tax included).