A cocktail inside a hollow ball of ice that you shatter to drink

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Sorry. Drinking is not a game.

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MUST!!!

(Damn you, ā€œBody is invalid.ā€ Damn you.)

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Not with that attitude.

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As mentioned previously, The Aviary, but they go deepā€¦ https://youtu.be/MZp3SkO0gjQ

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Why extract the water with a syringe vs. turning it upside down?

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I saw that too, but the linked page for the ice mold on Amazon mentions silicone in the product description several times, but doesnā€™t mention latex once.

I couldnā€™t say for sure, but itā€™s probably the same reason that itā€™s difficult to pour liquid very quickly from a closed can that only has a single small hole poked in the top.

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Itā€™s not even that there might be inferior ingredients, tbh if it was Pappy Van Winkle, hand crafted small-batch bitters, the finest of caksked and aged vermouth, and boutique candied cherries itā€™s still just a Manhattan.

The ratio of expense to reward with cocktails is really steep.

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Air cant get in to replace the water. But, if you stuck a coffee straw all the way to the bottom and then flipped it over, air would be able to displace the water and it would drain very quickly.

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Would be more fun if you used these molds: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0182I6CNK?psc=1

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probably itā€™s mostly about getting the water out efficiently, as has already been mentioned, but Iā€™d also add that even when water is near freezing, it can still melt / erode ice as it flows by (you can make a hole in an ice cube just by putting the open end of your straw against it and sucking your drink past the ice) so the hole probably remains a more predictable shape and size with the syringe

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This sounds like the most likely reason to me!

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If not with a soldering iron and syringe, how do you muddle your mint?

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You donā€™t wear black tie after 6, do you.

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I wonder if moulding the ice in one of the ā€˜pinappleā€™ patterns used in fragmentation munition casings would be impractical? If not, that would offer predictable weak points for easier shattering without damage to glassware.

(edit: it would also afford egregious punning opportunities, if paired with something vodka-based and called a ā€˜potato masherā€™)

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I was referring to the other similar cocktail in the contents, made by Aviary, which uses a literal latex balloon.

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Haha, I get it. But if you lose (or win?) too fast, you dieā€¦

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