Category: camper_clips

VinePair writer Tim McKirdy wrote a story on How to Create Perfectly Clear Ice, so naturally he included Directional Freezing, and the method I created way back in 2009 using a picnic cooler.  This is just a quick post to link to it so that I don't forget. Check it out here.  

Men's Journal did a story on directional freezing highlighting my cooler method of 11 years ago. Spoiler: It still works.  Check it out here.       

I was interviewed for a story on ice that appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week.  Here's the story link if you have subscriber access.  The intro part that mentions me is below. 

In this story in The Guardian, I'm mentioned as "perhaps the pre-eminent cocktail ice scholar," in the section about ice snobs.  I'll take it.    The story isn't about me at all, but it's a long read (no really, it's a very long read) about the packaged ice industry through the lens of one major…

Over at Punch, Drew Lazor wrote a story about the Kold-Draft ice machine. He covers the role the big clear ice cube maker played in the cocktail renaissance (I didn’t realize it was around so long), and how many bars are abandoning the machine today due to its problematic performance record.