Category: ice

  • Cranberries Frozen In Ice Sheets and Spheres

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    I covered it on my Instagram account, but I made some simple cranberry ice cubes.  For the spheres, I simply added cranberries to clear ice molds. [list of recommended products here] For the spears/sheets, I floated some cranberries in a cooler and let it freeze for about a day. I then broke up the slab…

  • Grid Patterned Ice, Plus Blueberries and Cherries

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    I made some fun ice, as I tend to do.  For the grid ice, I first made ice using the Ghost Ice tray, then I just set it on a cookie drying rack that I heated up on the stove burner. I think it looks like the tardis from Dr. Who.      For these…

  • Ice Jenga

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    I bought some collins-sized ice cube trays (these ones) and decided to make an ice spear version of Jenga. I mean, why not?  I didn't expect it would actually work. I mean, it didn't work all that well but I was able to get three out! Probably the second two on the bottom only came…

  • Striped Ice

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    I made striped ice cubes. The first time I made striped ice was just before I figured out directional freezing to make clear ice. Having realized that the cloudiness in ice was caused by trapped air and not minerals, I tried to pour very thin layers of water in a tray so that the air…

  • A Clear Ice Story at VinePair

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    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.  

  • Clear Ice with Quotes from Me in Men’s Journal

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    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.       

  • Ice in the Wall Street Journal

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    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. 

  • Double Layered Clear Ice Cube Trays In A Cooler

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    A few years back. a couple different ice adventurers figured out that you can use a silicone ice cube tray to make clear cubes in a directional freezing system (an insulated cooler in a freezer) simply by poking holes in the bottom of the tray, setting the tray on a small riser (to give a…

  • Fruit Bowl and Other Ice Projects Made in a Punch Cooler

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    Josh Colquitt [facebook page] contacted me on Facebook to share some clear ice work he's been doing. He has been filling a punch cooler (aka "beverage dispenser") with water and freezing with the top off inside a big top-loading freezer.  The cooler freezes from top to bottom via directional freezing, leaving him with a big…

  • The Pre-eminent Cocktail Ice Scholar

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    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…