About Ice blocks used in our DV

In 400 BC Iran, Persian engineers had already mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in specially designed, naturally cooled refrigerators, called yakhchal(meaning ice storage). This was a large underground space (up to 5000 m3) that had thick walls (at least two meters at the base) made out of a special mortar called sarooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash in specific proportions, and which was known to be resistant to heat transfer. This mixture was thought to be completely water impenetrable. The space often had access to a Qanat, and often contained a system of windcatchers which could easily bring temperatures inside the space down to frigid levels on summer days. The ice was then used to chill treats for royalty on such occasions.

So sagaars didn't showed anything wrong about the ICE BLOCKS

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice

oooo fnx for da info dear!

thanks 😃

Originally posted by: koolsam

In 400 BC Iran, Persian engineers had already mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in specially designed, naturally cooled refrigerators, called yakhchal(meaning ice storage). This was a large underground space (up to 5000 m3) that had thick walls (at least two meters at the base) made out of a special mortar called sarooj, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash in specific proportions, and which was known to be resistant to heat transfer. This mixture was thought to be completely water impenetrable. The space often had access to a Qanat, and often contained a system of windcatchers which could easily bring temperatures inside the space down to frigid levels on summer days. The ice was then used to chill treats for royalty on such occasions.

So sagaars didn't showed anything wrong about the ICE BLOCKS

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice

hey thanks for clearing our doubts!!

poor sagars .. tey had to go thorugh a lot everyday .. !! thanks to u, aaj bach gaye.. 😆😆

Wow.......thanx for the info.......koolsam....

Thanks for the info koolsam

wow...thanks for the info dear...

thanks 4 d clarifying info dear 😊...

Many thanks for the info 😛

Hey but if they went thru so much trouble to store ice I doubt whether it makes sense to torture prisoners with it 😆