How to make crystal clear ice?
This is the easiest way to make clearer ice at home, but it's a hack that avoids key point---- directionally icing.
If you observe carefully, you will find that the ice on the lake is often very transparent✨. This is the effect of directional icing plus time control🚀
Then why can directionally icing produce transparent ice❓
The absence of air bubbles is the main factor for high transparency. It is easy to notice that the area where air bubbles are generated is at the junction of ice and water. Comparing it to a race, to produce highly transparent ice, the bubble dissipation speed must run faster than the growth speed of ice cubes, and it must run farther than.
To achieve this effect, making ice in the incubator ensures that the growth rate of ice cubes is slow enough by reducing the speed of ice making, giving enough time for air bubbles to escape.
📚ReferenceAcademics: The Study of Booze by Camper English
👆The underlying principle of making transparent ice
👇Practice
🔧 Necessary tools
Towel [Must]: Protect yourself.
Insulated box [required]: Freeze large ice cubes.
Serrated knife (bread knife) [best]: a large fruit knife can be used.
Rubber hammer [not necessary]: Leverage the serrated knife.
Triangular ice ax [not necessary]: Chisel ice puck.
Ice cutter [not necessary]: Remove irregular edges and improve the appearance of ice cubes.
📖The production steps only need some tools, some water, and a little patience😌
Pour water into the incubator, remove the cover, and put it in the refrigerator for 18-24 hours. The first time you do it, check it in 9-12 hours👀, the best effect is half ice and half water!
Take out the incubator and place it upside down on a cutting board. In about 10 minutes, the ice cubes will fall off.
The ice cube should be semi-frozen with a blister on it, break it and take it.
Cut the ice into cubes as follows
Use a towel to hold ice cubes. 🧊
Use a serrated knife 🔪 to carve out a column of icicles on top of the ice and hit with a rubber mallet until one strip breaks off.
Cut the icicles into cubes in the same way.
Store ice cubes 🧊
Storing ice is just as important as making it! Never put the freshly cut ice directly into a sealed bag. If so, the ice cubes will stick together, which is very difficult to use😩.
First put the ice in the refrigerator to remove moisture, and then put the ice cubes in a sealed bag for storage.
Some safety precautions for chipping ice ⚠
Before cutting the ice, put it at room temperature for 1-2 minutes, otherwise the hard-worked ice will crack on your hands😱
buy a good knife 🔪
Use protective gear! Protect your hands, it will be hard after frostbite!
Ice is the soul of cocktails, because the soul of cocktails is water, taken from springs and rivers of the earth.
May everyone be able to make good ice and favorite cocktails. Have a good time! 💕