Category: ice
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That Ice Story is Online
The short piece on making crystal clear ice at home I wrote for Wired Magazine is now online. Check it out!
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An Icy Weekend in Monterey
This past weekend I spent about 12 hours cutting ice and it was awesome! As part of a bartender catering gig with Rye on the Road I worked a wedding and rehearsal dinner in Monterey. With a trusty ice saw and my new ice pick from Cocktail Kingdom I went to town on those blocks…
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Making Crystal Clear Ice in Wired Magazine
Run screaming to the newsstand to pick up the June issue of Wired magazine, because there is a story by me in it. Sure it's only 100 words long and it's about how to make clear ice, something you may have read about here, but you can consider it a collector's item. Update: The…
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How to Make Clear Ice, The Hard Way
Darcy over at ArtofDrink.com has taken up pursuit of clear ice. In his first post, he noted something that I did not consider and that could be very helpful. As the ice increases in thickness it begins to corral all of the impurities into the center of the block. Dissolved air and unfiltered water will…
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Is Faster Frozen Ice Less Cloudy than Slower Frozen Ice?
In this ice experiment, I compare large blocks of ice frozen at the highest and lowest freezer temperatures to see which is more clear vs. cloudy.
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Inside the Freezer of an Ice Nerd
A rare, behind-the-scenes look into the freezer of an ice nerd.
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Clear Ice Blocks at Home in an Igloo Cooler
In my latest set of experiments on making clear ice in the home freezer, I try using a hard-sided Igloo ice cooler- with great success! Read on.
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Carving Big (and clear) Ice Cubes
After much experimentation I have found one method to make big clear chunks of ice. That method is to put water in a cooler in the freezer, then chop off the top clear layer. Now the trick was to get this into useful sized cubes for glasses. *Update 2021: A better post on cutting up…