Best ice cube trays?

[wischeez]

Those things are badass. do they make them anymore? I have never seen one out in the wild, and first discovered this amazing invention while watching some movie that was filmed in the 70s or earlier.

wtf are these no longer around? cost to manufacture?

http://www.whateverworks.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=K1392&srccode=NXCKC6&utm_source=google&utm_medium=comparison&utm_campaign=datafeed

 

[TridenT]

i have that in my fridge. after having it 3 years no there is no way in hell i would go back to doing it by hand.

having the ice/water in the door is very nice. i have it hooked up ot my RO system.

Hey.. I ain't hating on that system. I had it for about 10 years. It was nice. I just happen to have moved to a place where the refrigerator is small and doesn't have that.

 

[TridenT]

That is pretty good. I like the crushed ice you get out. It seems to have gotten rare over the last couple decades, but it's always super special when a restaurant has it.

If I could make pellet ice... I would.

A pizza joint here does it for their drinks. It's pretty nice. I was like, "Ooo... nicely crushed ice? Mmm..."

 

[Locut0s]

So you post about how everything in your life is fail and now you can't even make ice cubes.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

I never knew making ice cubes was something you could fail at. And yet...TridenT manages. Somehow.

Add it to the scroll!

 

[Elbryn]

80 posts and no references towards ice cube spheres? i got me some free trays from makers mark which require some warm water running to get them to come free but it works.

 

[Howard]

i have that in my fridge. after having it 3 years no there is no way in hell i would go back to doing it by hand.

having the ice/water in the door is very nice. i have it hooked up ot my RO system.

Even with RO I hope you are still cleaning the system on a regular basis.

 

[waggy]

Even with RO I hope you are still cleaning the system on a regular basis.

yeah. each time i have to get new filters for the RO system. so once a year

 

[Farmer]

yeah. each time i have to get new filters for the RO system. so once a year

I try to clean my pipes on a daily basis, actually.

 

[Freejack2]

It won't be easier to get the ice out of, but it'll make interesting ice cubes.
NSFW!!!
http://www.bachelorette.com/boob-ice-cube-tray.html

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[Howard]

yeah. each time i have to get new filters for the RO system. so once a year

What procedure do you use?

 

[zinfamous]

by the way, I see very little need for ice. One of those weird American things that I simply don't understand anymore. While young I couldn't live without, nor could ever imagine a life without ice in my drinks--yet as I grew older, realized how stupid it was.

I have two ice cube trays in the fridge, and they are probably depleted once a month.

 

[ahenkel]

by the way, I see very little need for ice. One of those weird American things that I simply don't understand anymore. While young I couldn't live without, nor could ever imagine a life without ice in my drinks--yet as I grew older, realized how stupid it was.

I have two ice cube trays in the fridge, and they are probably depleted once a month.

Only time I ever plan on having ice is if I'm having booze. A gin and tonic chilled from the fridge isn't the same as one on the rocks.

 

[yh125d]

Most of the cooling that the ice does to your drink is from the melting. The energy required to go from solid -> liquid is much more than the energy required to just go up in temperature.

What? You're right with the first sentence, but the way the rest is worded doesn't make sense to me.


The ice is endothermic, meaning that it is receiving energy from the liquid, causing it to melt. The liquid is exothermic, because it is losing energy by applying it to the ice. As the liquid continues to lose energy, it cools.

 

[zinfamous]

Only time I ever plan on having ice is if I'm having booze. A gin and tonic chilled from the fridge isn't the same as one on the rocks.

yep, same here. I don't drink liquor too often these days, but when I have a bottle of gin or Vodka (for glorious white russians), the ice goes into overdrive.

though I do keep my cheap gins or vodkas in the freezer. still use ice.

 

[coldmeat]

What? You're right with the first sentence, but the way the rest is worded doesn't make sense to me.


The ice is endothermic, meaning that it is receiving energy from the liquid, causing it to melt. The liquid is exothermic, because it is losing energy by applying it to the ice. As the liquid continues to lose energy, it cools.

It's the phase change, not the warming of the ice that cools your drink the most.

 

[waggy]

What procedure do you use?

the fridge manual has instruction on how to do t his. i have only had teh fridge 2 years and been about a year. think it was a mix of water and ahh vinager

 

[yh125d]

It's the phase change, not the warming of the ice that cools your drink the most.

What? No. You don't need a phase change for ice to cool a liquid.


Take ice cubes at 0F, pour in some vodka at 20F. the ice will not melt, since the entire system is below its freezing point, but the vodka will still cool down even more because it has more energy than is present in the ice, and energy from the vodka will transfer into the ice to reach equilibrium.

 

[Sluggo]

The best ice cube trays are the ones in the built in ice-maker.

2nd best are the aluminum ice cube trays. The aluminum conducts the heat away quicker. And, as an added bonus, they have a long lever to release the cubes. Note: lever - simple machine. A device made to make work easier to do. This makes it ideal for TridenT.

This of course would lead to the "My tongue is stuck to the ice cube tray, what now?" post.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

The ice is endothermic, meaning that it is receiving energy from the liquid, causing it to melt. The liquid is exothermic, because it is losing energy by applying it to the ice. As the liquid continues to lose energy, it cools.

A substance cannot be exo- or endothermic. The process of heating or cooling is.

What? No. You don't need a phase change for ice to cool a liquid.

He's right. At freezing point, the only process that energy put into a solid goes towards is phase change. It's just that you don't notice the ice melting because enthalpy of fusion is so much greater than specific heat capacity. Your example doesn't work because in reality, who drinks vodka at -7C?

 

[coldmeat]

What? No. You don't need a phase change for ice to cool a liquid.

I didn't say that.

 

[yh125d]

A substance cannot be exo- or endothermic. The process of heating or cooling is.

I meant it as in "In the system of ice cooling a liquid, the ice is endothermic, as it is absorbing energy"

He's right. At freezing point, the only process that energy put into a solid goes towards is phase change. It's just that you don't notice the ice melting because enthalpy of fusion is so much greater than specific heat capacity. Your example doesn't work because in reality, who drinks vodka at -7C?

Except in my example, we're not at freezing point, we're well below it.



And plenty of people drink their vodka cold

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Except in my example, we're not at freezing point, we're well below it.



And plenty of people drink their vodka cold

Prove to me that it is a common occurrence for people to drink their vodka at -7 degrees centigrade.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

i have that in my fridge. after having it 3 years no there is no way in hell i would go back to doing it by hand.

having the ice/water in the door is very nice. i have it hooked up ot my RO system.

Proper RO system or just a filter?

You know you aren't supposed to drink RO water long term right? It has very low levels of minerals and can potentially cause decalcification of your bones...

 

[LookBehindYou]

yay 100 posts about ice trays....wtf