Category: ice
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Iceberg Animal Ice Molds Let you Experience Local Cooling in your Glass
Trying out new ice molds with animals floating atop drinks like sea ice.
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How to Make the Death Star Ice Mold Turn Out Clear
Those Star Wars Death Star ice ball molds make ugly, cloudy ice – here’s how to make it clear and gorgeous with Directional Freezing.
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Testing Out the Rabbit Clear Ice Tray
Testing out a new clear ice cube tray that’s hitting stores this fall.
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With Pokemon Ice Balls You Can Catch All The Drinks
Pokemon Go is taking America by storm, but if you want in on the action without leaving the comfort of your home bar you might try making these Pokemon-themed ice balls instead.
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What is Directional Freezing?
Directional Freezing is a simple method to make crystal clear ice by controlling the direction that water freezes. It was first explained here on Alcademics.com by Camper English in December 2009. The method has been written about in books, used in commercial products, and is employed in many small cocktail bars around the world.
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Make Perfectly Clear Ice Balls Using a Beer Koozie
A refinement of the method of making clear ice balls using a mold and a thermos. This method uses a beer koozie instead.
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Use an Aquarium Pump to Freeze Objects Inside Ice Blocks
You can make a clear block of ice using an insulated cooler with the Directional Freezing method. You can also use this method to freeze objects inside of ice blocks including freezing a full-sized bottle inside an ice block. If you are able to add an aquarium pump to the mix, you can make clear ice from…
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How to Freeze a Bottle in a Super Clear Ice block
This technique to freeze a bottle inside an ice block uses directional freezing (freezing inside an insulated cooler with the top off so that it only freezes from the top-down), with the bottle raised high so that it’s in the clear part of the ice block.
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Making Clear Ice Balls with Tovolo Sphere Ice Molds and a Cooler
Another method of making super clear ice spheres using different molds in a cooler.