My poor ice molds will be clear iceless

You are taking the clear ice thing pretty hard

Make jello jigglers instead!

I'm devastated e.k. Google is full of lies.

Wyo...I still use them for ice. It's just not clear ?

You should totally make jello in those!!!

If I had all those molds clear iceless I'd be super sad too!

My DH found a recipe for making "gummi Bears" out of jello and karo syrup so he wants to use my precious ice molds for it. It would be hard to get the jello out of the molds intact I think. At least some of them. Even the ice is hard to get out.

Some of them included YouTube videos. All lies I tell you.

Strategic picture taking. The floor under my table is littered with crumbs ?

Why do you need clear ice?

Because how else are you supposed to be able to tell my enterprise is a enterprise and not an oddly shaped penis?

You know, after the glass dildo post Idk if clear ice is the best way to distinguish that difference.

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Still laughing

Well I think the ladies in "Ice Rider" would beg to differ

I've found that placing my ice trays so that they are almost touching the top of my fridge freezer results in clearer ice.

I made some that was clearer than others (and it was a giant PITA at that). But none that was perfectly clear like I would like. Le sigh

I have some that I use for home made gummies. If you have enough gelatin, they don't break as you push them out. The easiest way is to push in from the underside and they usually pop right out.

For the ice, do you think it could be the water... like maybe different minerals or something are the issue?

No, because I tried it with 4 different types of water ???

#dedication

Well damn it lol. You could also freeze colored things like juice or wine...I think that'd be cool too!

My DH suggested wine....but I'm not the best at getting the trays into the freezer without getting water all over the place and licking wine off the floor probably isn't appropriate.

You having a party or something? There's gotta be something behind such dedication. Lol

No, people don't want to drive this far ????

Boredom...maybe a touch of OCD ?

Did you boil the water before freezing?

I would come to your clear ice party squish. Lol ???

Yes...twice on 1 attempt. Covered in plastic wrap and frozen in a cooler on another (the clearest....but still cloudy in the center) ????

I make chocolates and jello from agar agar, but i was never worried about the ice. Now i have to go check if my ice is cloudy, like i don't have enough things to worry about ?

Make gummies & add vitamin C to them.

Apparently it has to do with the rate at which cooling happens because the cloudyness is from first minerals and what not...and absent of those it comes from air bubbles because it freezes from the outside in. Trapping air bubbles in the center and creating cloudyness. So every attempt is basically trying to force the air bubbles out before you freeze it...which doesn't work! I tried doing it in a plate of pre-chilled salt water and that resulted in the air bubbles creating a layer at the top of the ice. #science

Your not using tap water? You need boil it let it cool boil again use distilled water. Sorry , you probably know this. .

If you turn down the setting on the freezer and they freeze slower will that make it clearer? And may be stir it occasionally?

I used RO water (reverse osmosis), distilled, purified and drinking. Believe me. I gave it a valiant effort ????

Also have you tried reverse osmosis water? I heard it takes all the minerals out.

I tried turning down the freezer to low, and placing the tray at the very bottom of the freezer, at the very top and the middle ???

My husband said I should use a vibrator to shake the bubbles out while it freezes. I did not attempt that one ???

May the force be with you!

And also with you

I was too late.... May be there is no such thing as absolutely clear ice, may be they just want you to thibk there is so you could be jelous of their 'clear ice'

There is, but it requires a machine that keeps the water constantly moving and it freezes it from the inside out. At least that's how they do those giant blocks for carving. Which are perfectly clear.

Well its time to settle for regular ice?

Have you tried boiling the water, letting it cool and boil it again?

Yup sure did lol

I've resigned myself to cloudy ice and having to tell people "this is a pac man and not a wheel of cheese"

Did you try boiling the water then strianing with a cheese cloth?

I wonder if it's the trays you have, maybe it only works in the plastic kind? Just guessing here, I have no idea!

I think the vibrator idea would work....

Just don't let the kids in there for a bit ?

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Squishymommy1 I made a post for you about the clear ice thing.