Ice, ice, baby!
Ice, ice, baby!
Do you make fancy ice for your home cocktails?
I am an ice geek. Husband finds it amusing, I used to just fill a cooler, sling it in the freezer and when it froze melt off the cloudy part with hot water and whack the clear part with a rolling pin to get jagged clear chunks, until the cooler cracked - now I use a silicone ice tray in an insulated box to get cubes, and cups with molds for globes, but kind of miss the irregular icebergs. Clear ice makes me happy. Also make skull shaped ice (not clear) for Halloween. And cracked ice for highballs.
I do not know how to post the below addresses without paywall. Can get NYTimes access from public library (so maybe you can too).
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/11/dining/clear-ice-book-camper-english.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/clear-ice-cube-cocktails-18129974.php