Does Anyone Have a Good Recipe for Ice Cubes?

Shut. Up.

Take an ice cube and stick it up your ass. Repeat until the glass is full and enjoy.

We know you will.

Piss

Preparing a good ice cube isn't as easy as many assume. I keep burning mine.

It’s a great dessert!

Ugh. Too spicy for me.

OP, I assume you were looking for Greg and got everyone but Greg.

NUGGET ICE!

NUG-GET ICE!

R7 He had to take the litter box to the mechanic but he'll be back.

Add prunes

Water, cold, and time.

Make your ice cubes from booze. This way you get more booze in your booze as the cubes melt.

Cubes?! You type poor. Spheres and whimsical shapes are where it’s at. I’d die of shame if I served a drink with ice cubes. Oh the shame!

What are ice cubes?

OP, are you straining the water?

Glacial ice!

Be careful though—a lot of it is “refrozen” mountain water. Make sure you get genuine Greenland glacial ice that has never been melted. Expensive, but so worth it.

Just like with your pasta, you should rinse your ice cubes off with water before serving.

I think Trader Joe's has a mix.

Boil distilled water.

Cool.

Place in silicone forms.

Freeze.

No, no, no, R19! Not distilled water! It has no taste. Use fresh, mountain spring water, or good well water.

I make ice balls. They are much better than cubes.

Oh, fuck. It's the "blue balls" troll again!

R13 Hexagonal ice cubes are a compromise for those who can't afford the luxury spherical ice and refuse to use basic, low class cubes.

R23 Hedonistic dodecahedrons.

You must use Kona Nigari water. It's a bargain at around $400 per 750ml. The water is believed to help those who consume it to lose weight, gain energy, and have flawless skin. Kona Nigari has these supposed impacts because of the rare deep ocean electrolyte content absorbed as it rests over a thousand feet below a certain Hawaiian Island.

Only freeze it in a high-end refrigerator.

LSD

Add delta 9 tincture to your ice cubes for a little extra extra.

Voila

R12 This is when they come out watery. I think you can mix with plain gelatin...

I like to sautée them in garlic butter.

You should use your guest property’s desalinization machine to siphon off huge batches of otherwise wasted ocean water to produce the sweetest cubes possible, OP, like I do here on my Vineyard (which I own). Try borrowing indefinitely and transforming your wealthiest neighbors’ private coves’ saltwater, at nightfall—this always makes for the tastiest ice cubes and failsafe margaritas on the rocks!

I can't find the original DL thread purporting to be a certain poster's recipe for ice cubes--I wish i could.

The secret to good ice cubes is you puree the water beforehand

After you puree it, let it cool overnight in the refrigerator. Only then can you put the water in the freezer.

Does anyone have a recipe for gluten-free ice cubes?

Switch to ass cubes, silly!

I've been making excellent vegetarian ice cubes for years, but next week I'm having some vegan guests. What do I do? Does anyone have a vegan ice cube recipe?

I insist on organic ice cubes!

don’t listen to them op. it’s not your fault ice is bourgeois.

If you go over to YouTube, Julia Child did an episode on it for the first series of The French Chef. Not ice the traditional way my mom made it, but it looks like it's worth trying out.

OP, my heart goes out to you. Please ignore the disdain of these philistines. I’ll tell you what changed my life. Giant ice cubes. I adore the hulking boulders. Fair warning: You’ll need to buy new drinking glasses with a larger circumference to accommodate these life changing ice cubes. Totally worth it.

What about our hopeless gluttons for punishment on keto?

R40 is a size queen. Ignore her.

Hilarious thread!

-- for the Short Bus crowd.

[quote] YouTube, Julia Child did an episode on it for the first series of The French Chef

That reminds me Graham Kerr, The Galloping Gourmet likewise once did a show on this subject. I'm afraid he passed out drunk before he could complete his instructions.

Supposedly the ancient Egyptians made amazing ice cubes, but today it's believed that it was actually aliens who created them, which is why the technology was eventually lost for a thousand years before being rediscovered during the Renaissance.

You have to gently fold the water into ice trays.

It always comes back to technique, doesn't it?

Along with regular cubes, my refrigerator makes clear ice spheres.

They are great when serving a negroni or a boulevardier.

Also good when pouring someone a scotch or a bourbon (if they like ice).

R49 It's wonderful that you are so earnest.

r50 Well, it IS important.

[quote] [R49] It's wonderful that you are so earnest.

Maybe you'll learn something.

The best ice cubes are those from trays shot into space and frozen on an Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos rocket.

Carbon footprint friendly? No. Convenient for your butler or home waitstaff? No.

But they really are so fabulous.

There is something lovely about having a steady supply of ice that is made into perfectly shaped cubes that are also crystal clear and not cloudy like the ice made in many refrigerators.

Believe it or not, it makes a cocktail served on the rocks so much more attractive and appealing.

I also enjoy using the ice spheres.

get thee to your nearest Sonic drive in. Best ice ever and they sell it buy the bag.

I know that people enjoy that Sonic ice (sometimes called hospital ice or nugget ice), but I don't like it.

Do you know how they make it?

Sonic ice uses a specialty ice machine that creates flakes of ice, that are then compressed into thin tubes. The machine then breaks the tubes into small chunks or pieces.

I have a refrigerator in town that makes what's called "ice bites"—it's not crushed ice but is rather very small cubes, that are sometimes likened to Sonic ice—but it's not the same.

R56 You are too much.

[quote] [R56] You are too much.

Thank you.

Ice, ice baby.