How about another Silicone Ice Ball Deal Again

@DaveInSoCal These are close but the Meh deal of 8 for $8 was a steal. I’m impressed how easy and well they work. I just have to watch when my son comes to visit since they’re small enough to “accidentally” mix in with his other stuff. I don’t want to have to frisk him before he leaves. I will but I don’t want to.

@conandlibrarian Interesting thought. I thought the coconut water was a novel idea but stock for soup, that might be a really good idea.

@bsci87 for stock I like ziplocs laid flat as it stores easy in freezers.

@CaptAmehrican Good thinking. I normally don’t make soup from scratch but I do make gravy that way. I never thought of that for before Thanksgiving or Christmas. Thanks for the idea.

@conandlibrarian i freeze stock in snapware containers, then take it out and put it in a vacuum sealed bag, extra steps but it “freeze” up the snapware.

i’ve taken to just throwing scraps from salad trimmings (carrots, celery, peppers, onion skins, etc.) into a gallon freezer bag until it’s about full and then simmer for a couple hours - makes super tasty vege stock, and it’s made from garbage - what a deal!

@Yoda_Daenerys I like that idea!

@jbartus OK but I can’t complain about something I can’t do anything about? This is America!!

@ELUNO Wouldn’t a frozen kite be heavy and hard to fly? I suppose if you got a good running start you could get it going but with my luck it would take a nose dive into the ground and break.

@bsci87 You are lucky then. With my head it would take a nose dive into my head and break my skull.

@ELUNO LOL. I like your sense of humor. Yeah, I would either break my skull or be slowly digested by a kite eating tree.

@MrGlass They are actually pretty fun but I have no life so your opinion may differ.

@daveinwarsh if you freeze them upside down inside another bath of water and them chip them out they SHOULD freeze clear.

@Kirgen try boiling water it comes out much clearer.

@daveinwarsh using a water that has been cleared of impurities (boiling, distilled, etc) helps. There is also a lot that happens in how quickly it freezes that affects things. If you look up how they make those giant ice sculpting blocks theres a bunch of info on it.

@MrGlass All the ideas everyone had sound like a bit of work. I may just try distilled water first & see what happens.

@daveinwarsh @MrGlass @Eluno @Kirgen @CaptAmehrican

Filtered versus distilled water

Both cracked… Dunno why. Both are cloudy as hell. There might be a slight difference on the distilled one. It looked slightly clear on the one side.

Here’s a pile of clear ice chunks that I made employing the method in the video. You can see how clear it is because the bottom piece blends well into the plate.

The clear spheres I made are at the bottom of a bag and I didn’t feel like pulling them out. Sorry.

@RiotDemon Did you boil any of them?
So the unseen clear spheres were successful clear spheres?! Where those made just like in the video?

@ELUNO no. Didn’t boil any of them. I already knew that the filtered or distilled water wouldn’t work to make perfectly clear ice. I’ve read about clear ice many times in the past… But I had the water on hand, and it didn’t take long, so why not.

Here’s a quick blog post that someone did showing boiled water.

http://www.thekitchn.com/can-you-really-make-crystal-clear-ice-cubes-by-using-boiling-water-putting-tips-to-the-test-in-the-kitchen-218344

Two of the clear ice spheres worked. I don’t know if I could be bothered to make them again. I’m trying to figure out how to suspend my ice shot glass mold upside down in the cooler to make them clear.

@RiotDemon Oh, shot glass mold sounds like a good idea. What material is it? Would it be easy to take the ice out?
Yeah, making clear ice looks to be a super time consuming chore. I’ll take my cloudy ice anytime. I think I will make coke/soda ice to go along with my coke/soda drinks.

@ELUNO it’s a silicone mold that makes 8 at a time. I bought it because any party I go to, the host never has enough shot glasses, so I figured I could make a big bag and bring them. They look kinda… Eh, whatever… with cloudy ice. I have thought about using them for jolly rancher shot glasses.

I also thought about adding food color since they’re cloudy anyway.

Maybe I’ll try that next.

@RiotDemon You have to do the pokeball colored ice balls!

@RiotDemon use flavored liquids. Aka ginger beer with lime for rum shots. Lime juice in water for tequila.coffee for baileys ect

@CaptAmehrican great ideas, thanks!

@Felton10 I wish I had a pair too. I don’t have any at all now.

@sammydog01 I think I like you better without
/giphy better without balls

@compunaut My husband would probably agree with you.