Category: ice
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How to Make Clear Ice, for Martha Stewart
I provided lots of quotes for this story on making clear ice on MarthaStewart.com.
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Designs on Clear Ice Cubes Using Clay Stamps
Lately I've been making designs on ice cubes using the Ice Designer tool or these Cookie Stamps. I even wrote a story about how Patterned Ice Conquered Drinkstagram. Well in my fairly regular perusal of Amazon for new ice stuff I came across these stamps that are used to impress patterns into clay and other…
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Dividers For An Ice Block
As you know, I make ice in an insulated cooler in the process known as directional freezing first demonstrated here on Alcademics in 2009. Lately I've been playing with an ice sphere press to make super nice looking ice balls. But the problem is that the ice spheres are about 2.7 inches in diameter and…
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Make Clear Stars and Hearts Ice with Silicone Cupcake Liners
You can make clear ice cubes in a tray in a cooler by punching holes in the bottom of each cube compartment and setting the tray on a riser. This is described here. Most commercial clear ice cube trays work similarly. But cubes are not the only shape of clear ice you can make in…
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Making Patterned Ice Cubes with Cookie Stamps
As you're probably aware, patterned ice is the new logo ice. You can make patterned ice with an ice designer ($160) or a meat tenderizer ($13), and recently I purchased some cookie stamps ($27) to give those a try. The round shape can be limiting, but they're pretty large and will cover a 2" cube.…
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Patterned Ice is the New Logo Ice
In my first story for Vinepair.com, I wrote about patterned ice – the history and the trend. I'm pretty proud of this one! Read it here.
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An Easy “Trick” for Removing Clear Ice Cubes from Trays
A lot of times I make clear ice in a Ghost Ice or Clearly Frozen tray and after a day and a half or so, it's plenty of frozen enough. If I let it go for two days or longer it is harder to remove the ice cubes – or rather, harder to separate the…
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The Cool New Ice Trend In London, 1873
I was searching for some information on Wenham Lake Ice and stumbled across this article in The Food Journal, published in London in 1873. Wenham is a lake in Massachusetts and its ice was famous and exported to London (I have some interesting info about that in Doctors and Distillers), but by the time this…
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Stars and Other Colored Shapes in Clear Ice Cubes
I did a new ice thing. I found online these Roks Silicone Ice Cube Tray Inserts, which press shapes, numbers, letters, etc into ice cubes. However, the trays they sell with them make cloudy ice. [note: looks like they're no longer on Amazon but here's their homepage.] So I put them on top of my…
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Improving the W&P Ice Cube Trays
I recently bought some ice cube trays from W&P Design. They have some funky new ones in blingy cubes and a star shape: But of course if you just fill them with water and freeze them normally they'll come out all cloudy and ugly: So I had planned to freeze them atop a Thermos Funtainer…