Camper English has strong feelings about clear versus cloud ice: “You can eat filet mignon out of a ditch, or you can eat it off of a plate at a fine-dining restaurant.”
“There’s not a huge difference between clear and cloudy ice in taste or melting speed,” he says. “But aesthetically, it’s a gargantuan difference between ugly, cloudy, garbage ice and slick-and-glossy, diamond-style clear ice. You can eat filet mignon out of a ditch, or you can eat it off a plate at a fine-dining restaurant.”
The world’s “preeminent cocktail ice scholar,” as the Guardian dubbed English, recently took the time to talk about his hard-H2O obsession, ice-making TikTok insanity and “mystery pillars” that can wreck your freezer, if you’re not careful :I didn’t get into scrapbooking. I got into ice cubes. The good news is ice cubes aren’t permanent. You can make your little project and then drink it or water your plants with it.
I went systematically through some of the ways to make clear ice “in theory,” such as boiling water. I would freeze it and then let it melt and freeze it another time. It wasn’t getting any clearer. I tried boiled water, distilled water, even carbonated water just to see what would happen. It made cloudy ice, all the time – that’s what happened.I’ve been contacted more than five times this week alone, and it’s only Tuesday. People ask questions about their ice and why it’s not freezing clearly.
How to freeze objects in a clear-ice tray: Make letters with aspic cutters or insert berries, edible flowers and citrus shapes.
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