* 1 small cooler
* freezing winter nights
* tap water
The Weather Channel explained this.
You don't freeze the whole thing, just a top layer.
Pros: Perfectly clear ice. Total win. Simple instructions. Inexpensive. Large mass of ice at once. Impurities pushed out. No filling ice trays.
Cons: Hassle. Jacked by Global Climate Change™and el Niño and ordinary weather disruptions. Wet mess. Must be thawed to release and refrozen causing problems. Must be chipped to fit glasses. Out of doors airborne debris. Knife hazard.
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In Life On The Mississippi, Twain described a visit to an ice factory in New Orleans:
"...While the water in the boxes gradually froze, men gave it a stir or two with a stick occasionally—to liberate the air-bubbles, I think. Other men were continually lifting out boxes whose contents had become hard frozen. They gave the box a single dip into a vat of boiling water, to melt the block of ice free from its tin coffin, then they shot the block out upon a platform car, and it was ready for market. These big blocks were hard, solid, and crystal-clear. In certain of them, big bouquets of fresh and brilliant tropical flowers had been frozen-in; in others, beautiful silken-clad French dolls, and other pretty objects. These blocks were to be set on end in a platter, in the center of dinner-tables, to cool the tropical air; and also to be ornamental, for the flowers and things imprisoned in them could be seen as through plate glass..." [Chapter 39]
Nineteenth-century air conditioning!
It was very easy to cut, like the crystalline character of it cooperated with the blade. The cut went were directed.
Is it possible to make a dirty martini with that ice?
Wots it for?
It's for ... *drum roll * ... CLEAR ICE.
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