DRY ICE

Dry ice is fun to use for different Halloween tricks or treats, but please remember to NEVER touch dry ice with your bare hands or any other place on your body.

If you need to work with it always use heavy gloves and/or tongs.

Dry is often hard to locate, but some bakery or ice cream specialty shops do carry it. Call around and see what you can find.

You can drop a few pieces into your punch or any other liquid to create a ghostly fog.

Do not allow any to be scooped up into a cup that you would drink from, nor let small children near it unsupervised.

Dry ice should not hurt you to drink anything that it has been in, you just don't want it to make contact with your skin or inhale too much of the fog. Always use in a well ventilated area.

When storing dry ice before your party, keep it in an insulated container. Do not make the container airtight. Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide and if kept in an airtight environment it could cause an explosion.

Dry ice will evaporate at the rate of about 5-10lbs per 24 hours depending on conditions, so make sure that you pick it up as close to the time that you need it as you can.

On your trip home, keep the windows of your car cracked as breathing in the fumes as it dissipates can cause medical problems.

Do not store dry ice in your freezer. If you place it in the freezer it will shut off the thermostat for your freezer and use itself up keeping everything else cold.

Do not place dry ice directly on top of a tiled countertop of solid surface as the extreme cold could crack it.

If you have any left over ice that you didn't use, just leave it unwrapped in a well ventilated area and it will dissipate on it's own.

If you do come in contact with the ice and you see a bit of red, treat as you would a burn, and it will heal as a burn would heal. If you note that there is blistering or any other abnormality, contact a physician. All warnings noted, Have fun!