Home Bar Basics: How To Make Clear Ice Spheres
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
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We all love the idea of using molds to make Ice Spheres, but practically, when we freeze them the ice comes out cloudy. No matter how hard we try we just can't seem to get the ice spheres to freeze clear. In this video we teach you a technique to get around this problem so you can freeze perfectly clear Spheres of Ice to drop inside your glass of whiskey or next cocktail creation.
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1:40am.. and I'm watching someone make ice.. lol
1.37am, was watching the video and stumbled across your comment.
01:51 and i'm here on purpose
Just checked my clock.. 1:53 in mine. Haha
1:54am I feel u
How about we all meet and let's all make ice too? Lol
The premade spheres that fit perfectly in the glass are wonderful and all, but if they fit perfectly in the glass then this goes against your prior video lessons. You taught me that the ice must initially be too big for the glass. You must put it in, then take it out, chip at it, and repeat until it barely fits. Then you build your drink and realize that its still way too big and there's no room to stir without making a mess, then proceed to stir and make said mess. This is Leandro's method. Kidding of course, thanks again
Haha
This comment was 11 out of 10 rsjrv99
I have been making clear ice for years now using the Cocktail Chemistry method. I have had great results using straight tap water. But if you have public water that has a lot of contaminates I guess you can boil it. The most important thing I learned from you is the tempering of the ice. It makes cutting cubes a lot easier. But I sure wish there was a ice company close by that made clear ice. Thanks
Pete Murray where do you live?
I would also say, can’t remember if I do in the video, that heating up the water dispels some of the gasses and can give you great results, I usually don’t do that though and don’t have problems
using a water purifier also helps in getting some of the impurities out, but his method is just ingenious.
i tried.the insulated clear ice mold and it has worked wonders. I was amazed on how clear the ice was. I tweaked it a bit and distilled water and used warm water on the mold and kapooww it's beautiful
I had wondered how those worked. Thanks!
For a sphere...this may be the best way, yet a lot of moving parts. For simplicity, I prefer the cooler cube method - few moving parts and lots of ice.
I appreciate this vid. I probably won't do it because I'm lazy, but I thoroughly enjoyed the science behind it and your personal techniques. Good stuff!
Thanks Elizabeth.
Gods work ur doin here, ty. 😎
Pure and simple... Your example flagship ice ball... was not clear.
And yes, there are people who can ACTUALLY make a clear ball without ANY fogginess.
Try again & re-shoot vid.
Not sure if anyone noticed how he never really showed the ball he pulled out of the mold. Probably because it wasn't clear and it was oblong not round.
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Came here for this. He clearly hides it right away and it doesnt look transparent
Guys so for the sake of argument why do you think I’d post this video if this was a failed experiment? Don’t you think I’d just say that the ice wasn’t clear and the ice making system wasn’t good? This wasn’t a sponsored post, I owe the company nothing. Why would I hide it? My mistake was I took the ice right out of the fridge and it was frosted as ice does directly out of a freezer I didn’t show you guys an Image of it after it was tempered. But the ice was clear...
Barfly, im definitely not trying to knock your hustle but as a consumer looking for unbiased reviews of items I may potentially sink my hard earned money into, if I see inconsistent information its my duty to other consumers to call it out. At 5:24 I can clearly see cloudy ice, it appears that half is clear and half is not. In every other video out there once the ice is made it is showcased so the viewer can see it. In your video the ice is obscured and shuffled to the side. I get you're trying to promote a product but your viewers will appreciate it more if you give the good and the bad. I didn't mean to come off as a hater, just giving my opinion. Keep up the videos I like a lot of your stuff.
P.S. The difference between cloudy and clear ice, definitely a first world problem...lol
I agree. Total fail..
This reminded me that I need to make ice, but we do it in a cooler and score/cut/chisel it into squares. I've heard you can use cheesecloth and float the shaped ice molds for the shaped clear ice. I never put forth that effort.
One sphere a day?
Many thanks. .... the ice in my scotch seems to last a bit longer so I'm not drinking water. Nice to hear the reason why this works too. Regards
I have a question: are there any good whiskey (bourbon or scotch) cocktails that use either raspberry jam or triple sec? I'm trying to find delicioud recipes for cocktails with a limited budget.
Thank you sir
It was cloudy that’s why he didn’t show up close lol
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Maybe you need a video on clear eyes, understandable misspelling.
Great new thumbnail
Awesome video
Thanks, let us know how yours turn out.
Lol I bought a silicone 4 ball mold from dollar general for 5 bucks...works great. I dont give a shit if its clear or cloudy...tastes the exact same
Apparently not a video for you 😂
i guess i can just toss these god tears i bought specifically for some clear ice smh
Joshua Maldonado don’t toss them I’m sure they’re good for something....
Hipsters like when you use god tears as a glass rinse.
What thermos? Size to fit?
I think clear ice is a cool concept for the occasional home cocktail for one or two people, but unless you live in a meat market with a 1000 sq ft freezer hosting a party or more drinks it’s just not feasible. I’ve worked in numerous bars and restaurants here, not really high class or anything, but I was wondering how many establishments actually do this? Looking at economics I can’t believe it’s really that many... the prep time, volume and freezer space makes this all cons financially... unless your selling $40 Old Fashioned’s lol!
Most bars buy their ice from ice companies. Even the ones that cut their own
The Educated Barfly thanks for the response, and that makes perfect sense, don’t know why that didn’t cross my mind, might have to see if there are any companies around me here in Texas that sell ice that way. And many praises for your awesome content, I went to bartending school in ‘01 but it was kind of disappointing on the creative side and led to a few years of working at shot bars and clubs in Austin making the same 3 cocktails and shots everyday and I burned out and left the career path, a few months back I stumbled across your channel and it let me see the art in cocktail creation in a whole new way which I wish the school would have, my interest has caught back on fire and I’m making and experimenting at home now like crazy and thinking of giving it another shot if I could find a true cocktail establishment near me to learn and really express the art of it.. everything out here is beer joints or shot bars lol! Keep up the great work man!
Is there any reason this wouldn’t work using a small cooler with water in it? I already have the round molds.
For a round mold? How do you mean?
tears of a god :D
I bought the cocktails glasses that provided the Ice molds. But not thermos? What are the specs or brand thermos that you need?
just a small cooler, like the small coleman 5qt www.amazon.com/store/theeducatedbarfly
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@@TheEducatedBarfly thanks! But in the vid it showed you using a thermos. Did I miss something?
@@cirrusbill yeah to make an ice ball clear you need to get a small circular thermos take the mold, fill it and and fill the thermos with water and place the mold upside down in the thermos and freeze that way for a few hours. The whole technique is described in the video....
Do you have to use something insulated, like the cup in your example?
Yes, that helps to slow the freezing process in the vessel you want your minerals and gasses to escape to. You want that water to be the last to freeze.
@@TheEducatedBarfly Thank you!
It’s excessive, but at a previous analytical chemistry lab I worked in they would sonicate the ultrapure water under vacuum to force out any dissolved carbonates.
That should do the trick, but not something we'd recommend for a home set up :) Directional freezing works pretty good.
🤔I was thinking about making some clear ice because I had a great cocktail with clear ice at a terrific bar soooo I’ve been watching several videos but ummm....me speaking about my future “He’ll have to be pretty special for me to make him some clear ice AND he’ll have to totally be the kind of person who will completely appreciate all of the SCIENCE AND EFFORT I put into making clear ice for the cocktail that I’ll serve him when I invite him over”. 💞
This will be your highest viewed video. BET
No way! Newton is my home town!
Tears of god completely got me!! :) Great video again!!!
Coupon code doesn't work dude, kind of a letdown.
Eli Trocco let me work on that for ya. Our apologies
Not sure if you're still into it but here's a link that works:
theelancollective.com/collections/barfly-special
Polar plunge. I mean. I’ve balls.
Really liked your comparison with tears from god ;)
Marco Röhl LOL thanks. I figured I’d get a lot of weird comments for saying that LOL
@@TheEducatedBarfly Next to that, I really appreciate your videos. I'm going to get involved into a cocktail bar business and get a lot of inspiration out of your videos. Thx for this and keep on doing. Enjoy the the holiday season.
Thank You! Holiday cocktails are about to drop!
Fuck all that
C,mon we talking about ice. Put that shit in a glas, filled with Whiskey, thats all.
I hate people say you will “never” get something or do something or get a fully desired outcome and then go to other videos that clearly show crystal clear ice. Straight up neat like... 🤣 🤣. Always makes me want to go back and say what about this jack wagon? 🤦♂️
Please.... Don't explain anything having remotely to do with science again.
"I'm going to show you how to make clear ice" 6 spheres on the table. Not one is clear...
aprox 2,000 words too many - fella - this could have been a 15sec movie.
it's flattering that you counted.
Tears of a god
Just to add some science - boiling removes dissolved gases, but not minerals. But gases will come back in as the water cools, especially if you disturb it. That increases the surface area, and pouring it much more so. You're actually better off pouring while it's near boiling though, because it won't absorb as much air while hot. Then cap it somehow.
Minerals won't do much on their own. They can act as a seed for dissolved gases to start forming bubbles on, but it's still the air causing the problem. And you can't get rid of them. If it were easy, water districts would do it to reduce all the hardness complaints. Though we'd never take them all out - pure water pulls calcium and manganese out of your bones! Speaking of which, if you buy pure, reverse osmosis'd water, use it quickly because it doesn't have anything in it that inhibits germ growth. Freezing (to freezer temperatures) doesn't kill much.
Man thanks for that! I should just have you come on the show!
Haha if I'm ever down in SoCal I'll bug you about that. But I'm no bartender, I just work at a water district so I've picked up a few things.
Who gives a shit if ice is cloudy or clear! I just care if it’s cold and since it’s ice, being cold is a given!
Lol why the hell would you boil water then let it cool first? Do you live in Mexico city and use tap water? Lol
Boiling the water dispels gasses in the water
Good Bartender, dont know how to speak