I've resigned myself to cloudy ice and having to tell people "this is a pac man and not a wheel of cheese"
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.
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 ???
I used RO water (reverse osmosis), distilled, purified and drinking. Believe me. I gave it a valiant effort ????
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
Yes...twice on 1 attempt. Covered in plastic wrap and frozen in a cooler on another (the clearest....but still cloudy in the center) ????
No, people don't want to drive this far ????
Boredom...maybe a touch of OCD ?
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.
No, because I tried it with 4 different types of water ???
#dedication
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?
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
Well I think the ladies in "Ice Rider" would beg to differ
Because how else are you supposed to be able to tell my enterprise is a enterprise and not an oddly shaped penis?
Strategic picture taking. The floor under my table is littered with crumbs ?
Some of them included YouTube videos. All lies I tell you.
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.
I'm devastated e.k. Google is full of lies.
Wyo...I still use them for ice. It's just not clear ?
Squishymommy1 I made a post for you about the clear ice thing.