XPost: alt.creative+cooking, alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.   
   port.football.college   
   XPost: rec.food.cooking   
   From: ei@o.com   
      
   "Pico Rico"  wrote   
      
   >>>>>>> On a more seriuos not, when I went to NYC last week I went   
   >>>>>>> to this really cool bar with drinks that had this fog pouring out   
   >>>>>>> of them. I asked the bartender about it and he said it was   
   >>>>>>> liquid nitrogen.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I went to Lowes and Home Depot but neither of them had it.   
   >>>>>>> Neither did the kitchen accessory store at the mall. Where do   
   >>>>>>> you get this stuff? Any recipes?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>> --Tedward   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Your local ag coop...its called Anhydrous Ammonia....I can't see   
   >>>>>> where it'd be very palateable though....besides growing corn with   
   >>>>>> it its used to make meth much faster than without....the numbers I   
   >>>>>> heard, without NH3 = 12 hours for a batch...with NH3 = 15 minutes   
   >>>>>> for a batch.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Now where was I? ...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Ammonia is NH3 and nitrogen N2.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> NH3 is commonly referred to as "liquid nitrogen" - this to distinguish   
   >>>> it from "dry nitrogen" which you can commonly find in lawn and garden   
   >>>> stores.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yet another person who is unfaimiliar with the actual production of   
   >>>> food.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> it may be called, in slang, "liquid nitrogen" but it really is simply   
   >>>> a liquid form of nitrogen fertilizer.  It is NOT liquid nitrogen. DUH.   
   >>>> is "chicken of the sea" . . . well,  never mind.   
   >>>   
   >>> Maybe if you explained to the representative from the troll group that you   
   were not talking about the liquid form of nitrogen   
   >>> gas which only exists at deep low temperatures, but rather a high nitrogen   
   fertilizer in liquid form which exists at room   
   >>> temperature, you both would not be wasting your time. Errr... check that,   
   the troll group rep will just waste time on something   
   >>> else.   
   >>   
   >> What I want to know is which one the bartender used.   
   >>   
   >> --Tedward   
   >   
   > Liquid Nitrogen.   
      
   Which liquid nitrogen?  NH3 or N2?   
      
   BTW, wouldn't N2 be a good fertizer for things like legumes?   
      
   --Tedward   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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