Why You Should Never Order Drinks With Ice, Bartenders Say
At your next company happy hour, you may want to consider ordering your mixed drinks “neat,” or at room temperature—without ice.Business Insider recently asked more than two dozen bartenders to “weigh in on what they’d love to tell customers but can’t.” Their response: Think twice about ice because it may be unclean.Of course, this is just anecdotal advice from a handful of mixologists. While some bars and restaurants may not rigorously clean their ice machines, others may do so.Here’s what you should keep in mind:Yes, in some cases ice has been found to be contaminated:Some studies and news stories over the past decade lend credibility to these bartenders’ warning about ice machines. In 2014, HuffPost spoke to two experts on ice and ice machine contamination. Three main issues were discus...