Tag: clear ice
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Freeze Liquor Bottles Inside an Ice Tube for Better Bottle Service
Using just a cooler, a tube, and a bottle you can a super funky display for your party or for bottle service at your bar.
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How to Monogram your Ice Cubes with Ice Brands
I’ve seen bars around the world imprinting their clear ice cubes with logos and monograms, so I decided to test out some methods of doing so at home.
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Edible Flowers Frozen in Incredibly Clear Ice Balls
I’m on a mission to freeze everything I can get my hands on into crystal clear ice balls. Here are the results of some experiments with edible flowers. They turned out super cool.
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Fun with Limes Inside Clear Ice Balls
I have been playing around with putting objects inside ice spheres. Here are a bunch of lime wedges and slices that came out looking slick.
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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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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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A Clear Ice Ball Maker You Can Buy
One difficulty with the Igloo Cooler method of making clear ice is that you get a great big block of ice at the end and have to cut it up into usable cubes yourself. I developed an ice cube tray using plastic boxes that gets the ice into long rectangles, and that's a bit closer…
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More Fun with Ice: The Time Bomb
The fun with ice continues! In ongoing experiments freezing things in ice, I decided to try freezing food coloring in the middle of an ice cube. Then when the ice melts, the coloring will release and change the drink. Click on the link below to see how I did it and what happened.