Tag: ice cubes
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Directional Freezing, as a Patent Law Exam Question
Is, or was, Directional Freezing a patentable process for making clear ice? That question was proposed on a trademark class exam this winter.
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Making Clear Ice with the Clearly Frozen Ice Cube Tray
Testing out a new product that makes clear ice cubes using directional freezing, a process uncovered here on Alcademics.
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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.
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Making Clear Ice Without a Cooler
In a set of experiments, I showed that you can make clear ice by controling the direction of freezing. The container I've been using for this is an Igloo cooler. When using it, the ice freezes from the top-down and all the cloudiness in the ice forms at the bottom of the container rather than…
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A Homemade Giant, Crystal Clear Ice Cube Tray
As you're probably aware, I've been dabbling in experiments making clear ice at home. [update: An organized index of ice experiments on Alcademics can be found here.] The way I've found that works best is to freeze ice in an Igloo cooler with the top off. (Please read the post before you tell me to boil…
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Ice Meets Chainsaw
Ice nerds got a real treat this Tuesday, for Andrew Bohrer from Seattle was guest bartending in San Francisco along with Amanda Womack from Cask. He brought chainsaw Thursday to the city in order to chop up giant blocks of clear ice from an industrial ice maker into big cubes that could be further cut…
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Clear Ice Blocks at Home in an Igloo Cooler
In my latest set of experiments on making clear ice in the home freezer, I try using a hard-sided Igloo ice cooler- with great success! Read on.