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Perfectly clear ice balls
Perfectly clear ice balls











If you are making punch you can also use these to chill since they are quite massive.

#Perfectly clear ice balls cracked#

As you can see in the picture above you are left with quite the weirdly shaped ice blocks, but they are perfect for making cracked ice to use in shaking or stirring your drink. It's something you have to do extra if you want the perfect ice ball, but it isn't as complicated or time-consuming as making the whole ball from scratch.Īnother nice thing is that you can use the not so pretty water that's left in the bottom of the ice tray. To get a really perfectly round sphere you have to either measure the water perfectly or shave a bit off. The sphere isn't perfectly clear, but it's beautiful and more translucent than the picture leads to believe.Īs mentioned before you can also see the little knobs on the top of the ice.

perfectly clear ice balls

There is a clear difference and again I blame it on the high amount of minerals in the water around here. In the picture above you can see the tap water sphere on the left and the sphere made with distilled water on the right. However, it should be fine if you let it cool a bit first. Plastic deforms when hot and I wouldn't want to ruin the whole thing. I'm sure boiling the water before will help, but I'm not as comfortable as with the Neat Ice Kit to fill hot water into the Polar Ice Ball. To show you the results you can get with this ice ball mold I revisited the experiment from my Neat Ice Kit experience, but this time just used two different kinds of water: normal tap water and distilled water. There is some luck involved as there were times when the ice went out pretty easily and other times I had to put in quite the effort. Getting the lower part out is a bit more troublesome, as the plastic can't be bent and you have to either wait or warm up the outer shell so the ice comes loose. The silicone molds come off easily and you have your ice ball in an instant. Removing the ice balls from their molds is pretty easy and doesn't take as much effort as with the Neat Ice Kit. You can see the effect in the picture below as I still haven't found the perfect amount of water to fill in. Since the water expands when it freezes, it will overflow and create a frozen tip on top of your ice sphere.

perfectly clear ice balls

I recommend to not fill the whole ice ball maker to the top. Tapping the whole thing helps and it also has the added effect, that all the air comes to the top, which helps with the freezing process. The hole is quite small and you have to wait until the water made it past the tiny holes and into the bottom half. The upper half has a medium sized hole in the center so you can fill the whole thing with water.Īssembly is quick, but filling the ball with water is a bit tedious. The lower half has tiny holes in it so the air can escape to the bottom while the water freezes from the top. On top of this construct you put two silicone molds that form a sphere. You get a black foam shell that isolates the water from the cold and a plastic tray that fits into this isolation. Since I explained the theory behind clear ice and where you can read up on it in my previous article, I will skip that part and focus on the review of the Polar Ice Ball. Therefore I want to share my experience with this product and help you decide if this is something you could use.

perfectly clear ice balls

I've made clear ice before, but getting it into a perfect round shape is difficult. Menu The Simple Way To Make Ice Balls 15 January 2016 on IceĪ while ago I supported the Kickstarter from Polar Ice Tray for their Polar Ice Ball maker.











Perfectly clear ice balls