How do you make "GOOD" ice??

[BillGates]

I swear, the only way to get good ice from the store. No matter how many times I wash my ice cube tray and run the water, ice water always ends up with floating white crap inside the glass. (Looks like pieces of skin).

It isn't just my house - I've seen it at many other houses, with both ice trays and ice makers built into the freezers.

I might try to make ice using water from a Brita pitcher, but even that may not work.

I just don't understand where that white sediment crap comes from!

Ideas?

 

[tweakmm]

There is a lot in your tap water

 

[bizmark]

good ice can only result from good water. Buy a Culligan filter for under your sink. Reverse osmosis works wonders. And it's so handy, you don't have to worry about the pitchers and whatnot.

 

[BillGates]

I wonder what the stuff actually is. Anybody got a Fisher Price microscope?

 

[BornStar]

As they said, the white stuff is from your water. I didn't get it at home but I do here at school. The water is noticeably worse here. I drink it straight out of the tap at home but I won't touch it unless it's been filtered here.

 

[MichaelD]

Short of installing a $1,000 Reverse-Osmosis undersink filtration system, you could buy a $20 Brita pitcher and manually fill the ice trays. That is what I do. I don't drink tap water (except at work...no choice....fountains outside the restrooms).

I make my ice cubes, coffee, tea, Kool-Aid and I cook with, Brita-filtered water. Tastes 99.999% like bottled water for 1/100th the price. Don't think. Just do it.

 

[BillGates]

I have a Brita pitcher, just out of fresh filters. Maybe I'll grab some next time I'm at Walmart and give it a shot.

 

[Smaulz]

Saw on the news once awhile back that the "stuff" floating in the water, (usually in metro city water) is actual particulate matter that wasn't completely filtered at the local water station. (I.e. toilet paper and what-not) It's technically "clean", but still....


:disgust:

 

[dakata24]

get a brita.. my friend going to ucla has one cuz if he doesnt use his faucet for awhile, after turning it on, brownish water comes out of the tap.. he runs it for a minute before using it and uses a brita for drinking..

i use a culligan R/O system + water softener.. drink it straight out of the faucet..

Saw on the news once awhile back that the "stuff" floating in the water, (usually in metro city water) is actual particulate matter that wasn't completely filtered at the local water station. (I.e. toilet paper and what-not) It's technically "clean", but still....

lol. is that the brown stuff coming out of my friend faucet? :Q

 

[BillGates]

Originally posted by: Smaulz
Saw on the news once awhile back that the "stuff" floating in the water, (usually in metro city water) is actual particulate matter that wasn't completely filtered at the local water station. (I.e. toilet paper and what-not) It's technically "clean", but still....


:disgust:

Jesus, what the ____?

Anyway, check out the following links for more info:

How do you make clear ice cubes?

What's the deal with cloudy ice?

How can I get clear ice cubes from my ice maker?

You can't. The cloudiness is caused by entrapped air bubbles. The clear ice cubes you get at a store or a restaurant are rapidly frozen by commercial equipment that traps little or no air. Your relatively slower-freezing residential in-freezer ice maker traps air bubbles in the ice

 

[bizmark]

FWIW you don't have to pay a sh|tload up front for a Culligan system. My parents got one recently and I know that they couldn't afford to lay down a thousand bucks. I think they probably pay around $30 a month or so. Which is reasonable considering that they drink at least a pitcher of iced tea a day.... Brita filters run $4-$5 apiece, and the added convenience of the Culligan system (a second faucet coming up next to your sink) makes it worth it. You don't have to sit and wait for it to filter, and you can get fairly large quantities at a time (b/c only so much water will fit in one Brita pitcher). I don't know, look into it, it could even be cheaper than I said, I'm not really sure. And Culligan fully maintains it, every few months they send you a little plastic container that you fill with water from the faucet, and you send it back to them (postage paid) and if the filter needs replacing then they'll schedule a time to come and do it.

Signs I need to go to bed: massive run on sentences with lots of commas.