Category: ice
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Olives and Ice are a Weird New Pairing
Jake Emen ruminated on the newish phenomenon of people combining ice and olives. The story includes references to Disco Cubes Dirty Martini ice, garnish at Hanky Panky in Mexico City, and the cover of The Ice Book by me. Check out the story here.
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How to Make the Stunning Artisanal Ice All Over Social Media
Writer Lisa Futterman interviewed me for this article on how to make fancy ice cubes for Wine Enthusiast. Check it out here.
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Two More Stories on the Specialty Ice Trend
After the New York Times quoted me for this story: The Height of Domestic Luxury? Designer Ice. A few other publications have picked up the beat. The Specialty Food Association (they put on the Fancy Food Show) published this piece Specialty Ice is Trending. And Deseret News published an explainer called Here’s everything…
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The Tiny Ice TikTok Trend
Punch editor-in-chief Talia Baiocchi writes about another ice trend on TikTok, that of teeny tiny ice cubes. It's a fun story and she asked me to share my thoughts. Read it here.
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A Shout-Out in Forbes About Ice
In an interview on Forbes.com with fellow ice nerd Jonathan Baker of Portland, Maine, I get a shout-out as the originator of the directional freezing system. The article is interesting all around and the pictures, taken by Baker, are great. You can see more on his Instagram account here.
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“Designer Ice” in the New York Times
I'm quoted in this article about fancy ice cubes in the New York Times. The Height of Domestic Luxury? Designer Ice. Join me in my obsession, preorder The Ice Book today!
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How Instagram Sparked the Clear-Ice Trend
In the February issue of Wine Enthusiast magazine, I was quoted on one page about the medicinal history of sparkling water and my book Doctors and Distillers was cited. On the next page, my forthcoming The Ice Book was cited and I provided quotes for a story on ice. That story just went up…
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Making Huge Clear Cubes to Prep for Ice Diamonds and Spheres
I've been working on methods to more easily produce huge 3" or so cubes that I can then use to carve into ice diamonds or put into an ice ball press to make spheres. Previously I was trying out inserting dividers into the cooler to make the ice blocks and this works pretty well. But…
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Is Pure TDS 0 Water Actually Bad for Making Clear Ice?
Here's an interesting problem and solution: James Hogarth reached out to me to describe the following. He is using water filtered with a Zero Water filter in a clear ice system. This filter removes all the major dissolved solids in the water, and it comes with a little TDS meter to verify it. But the…
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Smoothing Thermos Ice Spheres Using an Ice Sphere Press
I have several ways to make ice spheres at home, but the one that takes up the least amount of space is using a thermos and ice ball mold. This method produces nice large ice spheres but they're not as smooth and perfect as those made in the IceOlogy trays or big cubes pressed into…