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Ice of boiled water. How to make transparent ice at home: Four proven processes frost

The ice performs several important functions in the process of cooking a cocktail, such as: cooling the fed gland, bar inventory and part of the ingredients' cocktail, grinding the structure of the future cocktail, dilution of cocktail with water in the cooking process, and finally, ice in many cocktails is also decoration .

At the dawn of his Imbabar career, I was preparing ice for cocktails in special molds for ice. And I was always annoyed that the ice in them was obtained by some muddy and opaque. From this, first of all, suffered from the aesthetic appearance of cocktails prepared by me. I shut off a bunch of Internet resources, tried to prepare ice and filtered water, and from boiled, and even from distilled. Several times frozen and burned water, in general, was entertained, as he could. But this did not provide the desired result.

The fact is that no matter how hard I tried to clean the water from impurities, there still remained one component other than H 2 O. This is air. It is always present in water to a greater or lesser extent, and in the process of freezing of water, concentrates closer to the center of the tank, together with the dissolved salts contained in water, and freezes last. After all, it is not a secret that water in a freezing container, turns into a solid status from the surface and from the side of the tank, and the salts and air are concentrated in the center and freeze last. From this, it turns out in the center of ice cubes, such a whitening torment.

When using ice generators, the ice is frozen in cone-shaped or square ice molds not simultaneously, but gradually, as if layering on the already frozen the previous layer of ice. At the same time, each of the thin layers of water freezes almost instantly. The result is very clean and transparent ice. But ice generator costs from 15 thousand rubles, and there is a decent place in the bar. Therefore, for me it was not an option. And the transparent ice oh as I wanted.

As a result, after several experiments with a gradual fill of water in the molds, changes in the volume of freezing liquid, the crying of ice during the freezing process to release air and other things, other things, I found a way to prepare completely transparent ice at home without any significant effort who share below, in the hope that someone will ever come in handy:

  1. First of all, it is necessary to use only filtered water. If there is no home filter at hand, you can use drinking water from plastic bottles, but in no case tap water. There are too many extraneous unwanted impurities in it.
  2. Next, we type water into a fairly large container, liter by 2-3. Any metal bowl is suitable, but you need to take a deep, with a height of the sortiethmakers 10-15.
  3. We put the container with water in the freezer (I still need the container additionally wrap in the package so that you do not fall to the water to the water from the freezer ceiling. In addition, the water in the freezing process is slightly evaporated, and these evaporations stick to the inner surfaces of the freezer accelerating the onset of the moment when The freezer will need to defrost. Accordingly, the package prevents this process). The freezer turns on the maximum. I have it minus 24 o C.
  4. We wait until the water in the tank completely freezes.
  5. I pull out the resulting ice from the tank. To do this, we run the tank with cool water. Yes, the ice is cracking at the same time, but it will not affect the final result.
  6. Put the ice into a large spacious towel (very desirable without a pile), take a slicer for ice in one hand (there is no such tool at hand, I recommend using a big cross screwdriver) and the edge of the towel to another hand (should turn out "pocket") and we rock Slices of ice at a distance of approximately 5 cm from the center of ice block into the resulting "pocket". If necessary, we fray the resulting pieces into smaller.
  7. We fall asleep the resulting slices of ice into a glass for a cocktail and enjoy the result obtained. It will be absolutely transparent, as the whole torture (air, salt and impurities) will be concentrated in the center of the icy boulder.

I want to note that the ice that turned out in this way will be shapeless, often with sharp uneven edges and angles, but when liquid is poured into such ice in a glass, it ceases to be at least any important, because sharp edges are almost instantly smoothed when contacting with more warm by definition of liquid.

Another point: the ice must always be used fresh, not older than 2 - 3 days, as it is quickly dreamed, is covered with frost, and again hesitates. Here, in fact, all my very not even secret way to obtain transparent ice.

Recently, I completely switched to crushed ice in a height of the feed, and I use cubes from ice molds only in a shaker, a glass for mixing and cool the bar utensils.

And now I invite a Russian-speaking "cocktail community" in the comments to discuss your own methods and methods, and maybe the secret techniques for ice work !!!

At first glance, in order to freeze the ice, there is nothing complicated, but as a result, ice cubes are mutual and with bubbles. And in the cocktails, which are always transparent and very attractive in the cafes and restaurants. Let's try to make transparent ice on your own at home.

This fact is a scientific justification. As you know, in water there are microscopic air bubbles and various impurities. The freezing of ice cubes occurs gradually, starting from the walls of the form. Frozen water pushes the air to the center, and then, freezing, air bubbles give the ice cube grumpy color.

How to freeze transparent ice: proven ways

Method number 1: freeze boiled water

For this method, water must be skipped through the filter, then boil a few minutes. During the drilling, excess air will be released from the water. After, you need to wait for the cooling of water in a natural way. If you boil water in a saucepan, then for the cooling period, the pan must be covered with a lid or takanya to prevent dust sedimentation into water.

Now water can be poured into the form for freezing and send to the freezer. After 24 hours you will be able to extract absolutely transparent ice from the molds.

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Method number 2: how to freeze ice in a plastic container

Here we will need a plastic refrigerator container capable of keeping the temperature. It will help ice freeze slowly. The main thing is that the drawer is inspired by the size of the freezer compartment.

In the container, we put the molds for ice and pour clean water into them. Ordinary tap water is suitable, but it must be pre-filtered.

The bottom of the container is flooded with water, so that the water is nanolate in the level of water in forms. This water will freeze ice in the shapes from top to bottom.

We put the box in the freezer, not covered with a tight cover. The temperature in the freezer should not be very low, approximately, -8 ºС.

After 24 hours, we take out the frozen bottom of the box with the forms. Excessive ice, around the form, beat off, and from the forms we get transparent cubes.

Method number 3: Method of slow freezing

This method involves using the highest temperature of your freezing chamber. The desirable value is -1ºС. Forms with filtered water are set to the upper regiment of the freezer. It is advisable to wrap the shape of the food film. A day later, transparent ice will be ready.

Method number 4: how to make transparent ice with salt

To do this, put salt in a bowl. The amount of salt should be sufficient so that the water does not freeze in the freezer at a temperature not lower than -2ºС. As is known, salted water freezes at a lower temperature than fresh.

To begin with, we put salt water in the freezer and getting cold it as much as possible. In cold salt water, we place the shape with water. It remains this design to send to the freezer for a day. Transparent ice prepared in this way, you are provided.

Perfect transparent ice is obtained with the help of special ice generators, but you can hardly want to install such an aggregation in your home.

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For most of us, the use of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, especially in summer hot weather, is simply unthinkable without ice cubes. That is why we rarely think about the process of its manufacture, simply pour water into the form and put in the freezing chamber.

In fact, the manufacture of ice is real art that any professional bartender can confirm. Before you understand what an approach is necessary to prepare ice for drinks, it is necessary to figure out what it represents.

We know that ice is one of the aggregative states of ordinary water. But the formula H 2 oh is not applicable to it, which we used to consider as an ordinary water formula. In ice cubes, there is a mass of different impurities, which adds other chemical elements and components to ice. Experts recommend not to use ordinary crude water to prepare ice. The perfect option is to boil the water before freeze it.

How to make ice for alcohol? What varieties of ice for alcoholic beverages are? And how to effectively make ice at normal home?

Varieties of ice for alcoholic beverages

To prepare ice for a drink, you can use ordinary forms that are placed in a conventional refrigerator, and for the manufacture of ice in large quantities, a special unit is used, called the ice generator.

Although few people know, but the ice can be manufactured in several categories and varieties:

  • Food. This type of ice looks like separate layers having a form of small cylinders or cubes. Most often is made with the help of a ice generator from filtered drinking water. This type of ice is used as a cooler for alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages or cocktails.
  • Lump. It is prepared in the form of pieces having a different shape, and added both to cool the liquid and for beauty into alcoholic cocktails. In this category, ice can also be divided into cup, cubic and nuggets.
  • Cheese. This type of ice is usually used on presentations and exhibitions, in order to cool the drinks and products. Such ice has the shape of the corpus pieces that have an incorrect form. This variety of ice is used in bars and restaurants for making cocktails in a shaker. It is possible to prepare the crushed ice and in normal home conditions, by breaking the slicing ice with a kitchen hammer through a rag so that the fragments are not spilled. Since the crusted ice is melting much faster than other varieties, it is prepared right before use.

  • Ice frapp. This name has received fine-crushed or planed ice, which is used to prepare cocktails with the addition of fruit, khuwon, "mojito", as well as other drinks that usually drink through the straw.
  • Granulated. This type of ice has the form of small grads, a diameter of approximately 1 cm. Such ice is easy to store, it is not fatal and quickly mixed with the products and never spoils its soft tissues. Most often, such ice is used to supply wine, champagne and some kinds of dishes on the ice litter.
  • Ice cubes Fancy. . Such a sonorous name got ice cubes in which a variety of sugar fruits are frozen. Such cubes can also be made of coffee or tea, and if the cooking of a cocktail implies the use of juice, berries or mint leaves, then all this can be frozen in Fancy ice cubes.
  • Color. Such ice is used not only to cool drinks, but also create their original design, design, or decorate a glass. Such ice, lemonade and cocktails are usually served with such ice, although at the request of the user it can be used in any other purposes. To get colored ice use fruit-berry juices that have different color, and besides that, such ice cubes have a pleasant original taste. In order to give ice a great originality, the layer-by-layer freezing is sometimes used, then each ice cube has an impressive and beautiful view.
  • Fried. Despite the unusual and controversial name, such ice is quite simple. To do this, in the freezer, small pieces of fruit are frozen in the freezer, after that they are whipped with egg protein and make meringue, diameter with a tennis ball. A piece of ice is pressed into it, after which they are poured and ignited. It has time to burn until the ice melted, and mart is fried, while maintaining a cool and refreshing effect, inside with ice.

Today, in order to prepare any type of ice, you can use as a ice generator or a variety of freezing forms, which are usually made of plastic or food silicone.

Banal, at first glance, the situation: you come to a familiar or relative and are interested in: "Need transparent ice. How to make cubes are not muddy and in cracks, and even without a specific smell of the freezer? " The strangest thing is that in 99.9% of cases in response you will receive a recommendation to shove the ice shape in the freezer and wait a couple of hours accompanied by a mocking look. Yes, yes, the interlocutor will always seem that you asked a funny and ridiculous question, the answer to which even a first-grader knows. But he will be in this happy confidence until it does not try to make transparent ice. How to make ice cubes, it seems to be all clear and is known, but in practice it is not all that it turns out.

There is a problem

Any modern refrigerator in its standard equipment contains a tray for eggs and a shelf of different caliber and destinations, as well as a miniature mold for freezing water. By the way, the inventive housewives not only use it in direct appointment, but also frost fragrant herbs, berry, fruit and vegetable puree, which is then used to prepare a variety of dishes.

Such skill, however, does not mean that at least half of the crowded girls know how to prepare the elementary component of cocktails and refreshments - transparent ice. How to make it crystal clear and beautiful, such as it is served in bars, restaurants or are shown in television rollers?

The usual gives an unexpected and rather unsightly result. Cubes look unesthetically, they contain incomprepancies of incomprehensible origin, multiple chips and cracks, moreover, have an uneven consistency.

Imperative condition

So what's the deal? Why is it so difficult to get transparent ice at home? How to make it clean, like a tear, smooth and brilliant? The answer to the question is quite simple: the cubes will then work perfect when conditions are favored. There are several of them, and now we will tell about them.

First, the raw materials from which you plan to make perfectly transparent ice should also be perfect. What does this mean? Everything is simple: water from under the tap does not suit us. In that substance that communal services is served on pipes is quite difficult to determine the composition. Impurities of metals, chemicals and other nasty during freezing do not allow water molecules to crystallize as it should be, they break the initially clear structure of the ice.

Secondly, the fluids often contain air, small bubbles interfere with the Frozen Wilder with transparent and smooth. It suggests a conclusion: water should be clean and not contain gases. An ideal raw material can be used to use it in the diet of her doctors strongly do not recommend.

So how to make transparent ice at home? First of all, you need to prepare raw materials. For this purpose, drinking water purified in industrial conditions is suitable, but not mineral, enriched with salts and minerals, but simple dining and non-carbonated. Before filling the liquid into the mold for ice, it must be boiled. During heating from it, air bubbles will evaporate, which repeatedly increases the level of transparency and purity of ice. You can also use that water that flows from the crane, but it must be cleaned by a household filter, and then boil. To achieve a maximum effect, the procedure can be repeated twice, that is, alternately filter the water, boil, clean again, and then bring to a boil.

Ice "Potion"

We dealt with the quality of water, but an equally important factor will be the creation of the right microclimate for freezing. In general, this topic, most likely, worries fans of soft drinks (different levels of the fortress). Muddy cubes in a glass with soda or alcohol will fully rise for personal needs, they don't really want to sweep such drinks, so the question of how to make transparent ice cubes is relevant for many people.

The experimental way is noticed that the ice is then muddy and ugly when it freezes unevenly. To reduce the likelihood of temperature fluctuations, it is important to quickly freeze the water with a stable microclimate.

Here, the opinions of specialists somewhat diverge. Some argue that the faster the ice is formed, the more beautiful it will, and for this, water should be placed in the freezer at the lowest possible value on the thermometer. Others, on the contrary, advise to set a thermostat to position -1 Cº and give water to freeze in such conditions, the main thing is not to open the camera in order to avoid getting off warm air from the outside.

Holiday with wretch

Many readers may interest the question of how entertainment facilities can create a large number of ice cubes. How to make transparent ice so that it is enough for hundreds of visitors and guests? For this use special aggregates - ice generators. With their help, you can frozen a lot of water, they support the optimal temperature inside the chamber, which allows you to make ice transparent.

But when working with such a machine, it is important to comply with some conditions. In addition to the fact that water quality must correspond to the specified parameters (no impurities required), the ice batch must be done simultaneously. That is, topping the water in the cells while the camera remains ready-made cubes, will lead to a bad end result. The liquid is best used to use room temperature: as practice shows, a cooler watch freezes unevenly, and the ice is muddy.

Cold art

The last but no less curious question is how to make ice transparent at home if you need for sculpture? Ice statues and figures are a luxurious spectacle. Their creators without exaggeration can be called great masters of their business. Some of them are creating magnificent masterpieces, work on their jobs for days in terrible conditions, so that grateful viewers can enjoy the winter fairy tale.

But here's the task: where to take blocks of ice such colossal sizes so that you can cut huge sculptures from them? Sometimes artificial ice is used for this, but it is very expensive, in addition, the blanks make standard sizes that do not always suit the sculptor.

In winter, the most acceptable option will be the use of natural ice, which blocks cut into the reservoirs. This is quite dangerous fishery, because there is always a serious danger to be under the ice, and it is necessary to work in special clothes so as not to get wet.

As you can see, the chances of making a block on your own - at home, in the freezer - it is extremely small. In winter, of course, you can freeze ice in any container if it allows the air temperature, but with some reservations.

To create ice masterpieces it is necessary to use a solid block of homogeneous consistency. The loose ice will quickly crumble and melt, and this will not give the opportunity to cut a beautiful sculpture.

It is not enough to work with too much frost to just hard, but also dangerous - ice freezes so strongly that very hard and sharp fragments fly away from it, which can easily be caught. In addition, glue between themselves several parts of the product with water will not work - it will freeze too quickly, and the warm liquid can cause an explosion of the entire composition due to a sharp drop temperature.

You can create ice boulders yourself using special freezer cameras. They are imported and domestic production. The advantage of Russian freezers is the opportunity to order a chamber for individual sizes.

You will need

  • - purified water
  • - Forms or Disposable Ice Packages
  • - Towel and kitchen hammer (for ice-frapp)
  • - juice, berries and fruit pieces (for colored ice)

Instruction

In essence, ice is one of the forms of water, which it takes under the influence of a negative temperature. Water from the usual water supply contains a lot of impurities, when it is freezing, it turns out quite muddy ice, which ugly externally and unpleasant taste. Therefore, following one of the main rules, prepare ice only from pure water. It is not necessary to go for distilled or bottled. You can use the usual, from a centralized supply system by subjected to cleaning it in several stages.

Move the water through the filter with the fibers of the aqualen and boil in the tank without scale. The ideal solution will give this water to settle. The remaining impurities within a few hours will fall into the sediment. Gently break the water into another dishes. Now you can leave from it.

For curly pieces, use very comfortable silicone molds for ice. They are sold in a large assortment in housekeeping stores. Water for the preparation of ice in such forms should be room temperature. An indispensable condition for the manufacture of ice in open forms should be freezing in a separate area. The ice adsorb smells from the freezer very well, so put the molds in a specially designated place in the freezer. If you do not have a separate space in the freezer, use in this case one-time packages for making ice, which do not absorb smells.

If the cocktail recipe provides for the use of colored ice, prepare it with the addition of juices, mint leaves or berries. In order for berries and leaflets inside a piece of ice, freeze the layers: fuel fluid to one third in the form, let it freeze, then put the leaves of mint, pieces of fruit or berries and fill the remaining liquid. Multicolored ice also prepare using layer-by-layer freezing.

Some cocktails require the use of shallow ice crumb - frapp. For her cooking in bars, ice is crushed in special crash. At home you can prepare without the use of special equipment. Spread the frozen ice cubes on the half of the pure cotton towel and cover the second half. Take a hammer for meat and a stupid side. Slide the pieces of ice in a towel. After that, pour ice crumbs into the container, cover the lid and place it in the freezer. Put the crumb into the glass in front of the manufacturer of the cocktail.