Tag: how to make clear ice
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Using Salt Walter as an Insulator to Make Clear Ice
This blog post is a continuation of this experiment. In this experiment, I wanted to test out another way to insulate an ice cube tray to make clear ice. Inspired by a comment from another blog entry by a reader named Gael, I decided to try salt water as an insulator rather than just plain…
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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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Another Clue to Ice Clarity: Slow Freezing Like a Japanese Pond
The other night a friend of mine told me that she read something about clear ice, which as you may recall is a topic of interest of this blog. Naturally I forgot what she said (we were at a bar, remember) but the next day I found the following email I had sent to myself:…