If you are into fancy looking cocktails this product makes sense. Making clear ice cubes at home is not easy.
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If you are into making fancy cocktails then you can get into making fancy ice
You can make these arguments about literally any prepackaged product. I’m not defending this ice, but come on. You can make anything yourself, so long as you have the equipment, time, and money. Paying for someone else to have done it for you is about convenience, and is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.
Almost done making my ISS, shouldn't be too many leaks when I'm done with it. I'm using the expensive duct tape after all.
SMH my head, of course you should be making the duct tape yourself 🙂↔️
If you’re into making fancy ice, then you can get into making your own purified water using complete combustion. If you’re into making purified water with complete combustion then can get into making your own hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. If you’re into making your own hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen then you can get into making your own universe.
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You just need to keep the water agitated as it freezes to prevent bubbles forming in it, and they sell machines specifically for this that would pay for themselves in no time over buying pre-made fancy ice cubes. They even have ones that make spheres.
you can also freeze the ice in an insulated container with no lid. that makes air bubbles and impurities collect at the bottom, after which you can cut that part off.
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My store also have Unfrozen Ice Cubes
Americans buy water in plastic jugs??
Not always. Sometimes we buy them in little plastic bottles in packs of 24-48!
Some towns still get water to their houses through leaded pipes. This is the most economical way for those people to get water. Others don't trust their water even if it technically meets EPA standards. And some places just have water that tastes really bad.
Most of America gets water from a tap and maybe filters it.
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What, you Europers just drink it from the ground? Where the dirt is? Like savages?
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Putting aside for now, the fact that making crystal clear ice requires specially filtered water that is very carefully and slowly frozen with fancy equipment.
The real question is why does anyone think this is what they need in life. They only people I have seen that insist on such things are whisk(e)y snobs that drink their whisk(e)y on the rocks. They claim that cloudy ice has impurities in it that affects the flavor of the drink.
While technically they are maybe correct, my reply is-- "Shut up and drink your whisk(e)y neat like God and the Irish meant it to be consumed. The water is already in it."
Noe that the water can just be tap, and the equipment isn't super fancy. If the water looks clear, you can make clear ice from it.
It's called directional freezing, you stick water in freezer insulated on all sides so that it freezes from the top down instead of outside in.
If you have larger ice, you'll see the white stuff is in the middle, the last area to freeze. Directional freezing causes that to be at an end instead of in the center, and you either pull out the ice before the end freezes, ideally, or cut off the end.
I have an ice mold that doess this and it provides break off points to break the clear ice off the unclear ice.
It does take a while though and the bulky insulation takes a lot of room in the freezer.
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I love this comment. On one hand I don't hate the idea that this exists and it's an obscure aesthetic thing. If someone wants to make super fancy cocktails then fine, whatever. On the other hand,
“Shut up and drink your whisk(e)y neat like God and the Irish meant it to be consumed. The water is already in it.”
Love it
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Why would I buy frozen ice cubes? I have no time to microwave, I'd rather buy fresh ones
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"Enlarged to show detail"?? Wow
Title of your sex tape
Is this a freezing kit or actual ice? Because freezing your own ice that looks like that can be difficult.
It appears to be in the freezer so I'd say it's 100% actual ice.
Ew. I like my ice fresh.
I like my ice millions of years old so I have it flown in from a glacier I'd never touch cheap shit from aldi that's for the low class folk.
The longer it's been frozen, the fewer times it's been pee.
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That's absolutely why it's being sold. I bet some high end bars just purchase ice like this in bulk. Not surprising they thought there would be a consumer market for fancy ice as well.
Here's a video showing how it's made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8mqVGDQ1s
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Why don't they just put these things into the ocean and solve global warming?
ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
Bad news, everybody!
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Ultra pure slow melting.... ok... it melts just like regular water
Extra micro plastics infused for the smooth slower melt
Though if you're using a plastic ice cube tray to make ice cubes, there's a good chance you're bringing your own microplastics.
Source: got a metal ice cube tray and noticed that weird "old ice" flavour and subtle sheen on the drink surface as it melted is no longer there.
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He shops at Aldi
He buys $5 ice.
Who is this person? Is he the same guy spending thousands on a free game?
Here in Europe you'd see expensive SUVs, like Porsches and Range Rovers, parked outside the Aldi all the time. Lot's of rich people are penny pinchers especially old money who inherited their money. They would probably buy these ice cubes if they have to impress their friends with their Japanese whiskey that they only drink when guests are at their home.
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Ha. It says "keep frozen."
What the fuck....... My co worker put a video of this.... On snap like 11 hours ago from Aldi's. Like, this could be a screen grab of it.
They're 4 square cubes of clear ice and Aldi wants like $5 for them.
These work so much better than the unfrozen ice cubes they sold last week.
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if i saw these i'd leave them in the bread section
Lol I saw these at my Aldi too. It's pretty dumb at first but I have seen ice cubes for sale at liquor stores for making mixed drinks.
Regular tap water usually doesn't make perfectly clear ice and most trays are a lot smaller than 1.8" cubes. I wonder if the tray is reusable? If you were planning on a cocktail night and knew what you were looking for, this might not be as dumb of a buy as you think, especially if it was a one-time need.
It just looks especially silly at Aldi, a grocery store that prides itself on affordable products and doesn't sell liquor lol
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Ah, yes frozen ice
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