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Stars and Other Colored Shapes in Clear Ice Cubes

I did a new ice thing. 

Stars in clear cubes3

I found online these Roks Silicone Ice Cube Tray Inserts, which press shapes, numbers, letters, etc into ice cubes. However, the trays they sell with them make cloudy ice. [note: looks like they're no longer on Amazon but here's their homepage.]

Skull

So I put them on top of my IceOlogy trays facing down so that it would press the pattern into the top of the clear cubes using directional freezing.

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Stars in clear cubes13

This would probably also work with trays like the Ghost Ice System and Clearly Frozen tray. 

This left a nice deep impression. 

 

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Stars in clear cubes17
Stars in clear cubes17

Then to fill the impression, I put some cranberry juice in the freezer for about 20 minutes until it was nearly freezing. I tried this once before with fridge-temperature juice and it melted the shape, so it's important for it to be super cold. 

After it had frozen, I found it had barely overfilled the top of the cube so I melted it off by pressing it against a thaw plate. 

It came out very nice, don't you think? 

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Stars in clear cubes5
Stars in clear cubes5

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The index of all the work on ice on Alcademics is here

 

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earfdae

WOW! Great work! It's only a matter of time until bars in Portland and Brooklyn start doing this after seeing yours. :)

David Hays

Those are some pretty incredible cubes. Thanks for sharing.

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