Post #129560 by Kono on Tue, Dec 7, 2004 6:24 PM

I got a Hawaii Ice ice shaver at Tuesday Morning for 7 or 8 bucks. It's like that one but more like a drive thru window with the circular part resting on two vertical pieces of blue plastic with molded palm tree designs. Yes, it does shave the ice very fine. The only problem is that I only have three puckmakers and you can rip through them pretty fast. Obviously you could freeze many hockey pucks in advance and store them in the freezer but that's too much forward thinking for me.

I've got a Rival snow cone maker for back up. The ice is a little less fine but it's easier to use since you just drop ice cubes in the top, and since it's electric you have less chance of having one forearm and tricep being twice the size of the other. Note of caution: when using the Hawaii Ice ice shaver, you may want to turn the crank with your "non-drinking arm" (this, obviously, does not apply to two-fisted drinkers). If your drinking arm is suddenly "buff" and of Popeye proportions, you do stand the chance of inadvertantly crushing an eye tooth against your favorite Mai Tai glass. And who wants to have to replace a vintage Mai Tai glass?