Is it ok to put dry ice in a drink what happens if you drink it or it touches your lips?

Answer 1

Dry Ice is solid CO2. No, it won't kill or even hurt you to put it in a drink and drink the drink. In many cases dry ice is used to carbonate beverages and make ice cream. In fact, putting dry ice in a non-carbonated beverage makes it get fizzy as you drink it. (Great in fruit juices!)

Dry ice is so cold (see below) that as soon as it goes into a drink, the drink starts to freeze around it. It would freeze solid instantly but that gas needs to get out, so it's constantly pushing the ice off. 99% of the time after being in a drink if it touches you, you'll be touching the wet frozen layer of the drink and not the dry ice, so it won't stick to your lip. Still, it's easy enough to keep the dry ice in the bottom of the drink (it sinks in most drinks) and just refill when you get to the bottom.

We've done this for martini parties and Halloween every year and there's never been an issue. Best result - Pour a large glass of room temperature juice, punch, martini etc.

Drop in 1 or 2 pieces of dry ice the size of a regular ice cube, let them bubble for a minute or two, drink! When you get down to the dry ice, refill!

Here are the ACTUAL dangers of dry ice. (All of these can be avoided if you're even remotely intelligent)

It's COLD!!: When you buy dry ice they don't have it in regular freezers, they have it in special freezers that go down to −90 ° or more (consider that your standard freezer at home goes down to -18 max!. Dry ice will sublimate (turn from a solid to a gas with no liquid state in between) at anything over −78.5 °C. That's why a lot of people put dry ice in their freezers at home only to find it all gone the next day. Of course -78.5 is cold enough that when it touches your skin for more than a second or two, it does damage, it will burn your skin and give you frostbite, but it's EASY to avoid getting burned. You can take a piece of dry ice and toss it from hand to hand quickly and not get hurt if you're very careful (not recommended but, it's not going to kill you) Suffocation: In order to replace enough air with CO2 to cause you breathing problems you'd have to have hundreds of pounds in a small airtight space, that being said, if you're putting it in a drink for the fog effect, it's going to be right in your face, so drink sparingly and make sure the room has *some* airflow.

Swallowing: Swallowing a big piece (bigger than a tic-tac) could make you sick for multiple reasons... A. you'd have something at -78 going down your inner works and it would be bound to press up against and freeze and/or damage things on the way down. B. It's gassing the whole time. It's possible you could have something rupture, and or some kind of reaction, but most likely you'd burp a lot. The danger of freezing means you should NEVER swallow any no matter what. (Again easy to avoid unless you're mind numbingly stupid)

Explosion: Don't put dry ice in a juice bottle and then put the lid on thinking "Hey this will carbonate my drink!" if you do that, you just made a dry ice bomb, and you run the risk of having plastic shrapnel embedded in your body

Answer 2

It is not safe to put dry ice directly in a drink as it can cause injury due to extreme cold temperatures and release of carbon dioxide gas. If dry ice touches your lips or is ingested, it can cause burns or frostbite. It's important to handle dry ice with care and not consume it.