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Lol I saw these at my Aldi too. It's pretty dumb at first but I have seen ice cubes for sale at liquor stores for making mixed drinks.
Regular tap water usually doesn't make perfectly clear ice and most trays are a lot smaller than 1.8" cubes. I wonder if the tray is reusable? If you were planning on a cocktail night and knew what you were looking for, this might not be as dumb of a buy as you think, especially if it was a one-time need.
It just looks especially silly at Aldi, a grocery store that prides itself on affordable products and doesn't sell liquor lol
Tap water can make clear ice. It’s a matter of how it’s chilled.
Yeah, you want it to freeze on one end first to push out the bubbles. And even then it just pushes the bubbles to one end so you'd have to chip/cut away at them if you want perfectly clear ice.
I have molds for that style ice cube and I can't be arsed to use them, let alone care about the bubbles.
or you can keep water moving and cool from one side only, then remove water from above when you're done, no need to chip away bubbly ice
I think before babying my ice cube tray for a day I'd just buy 4 for $5 when I want clear ice.
The trays to make clear ice usually have a compartment that's sacrificial (where the non-clear part of the ice goes and is cut off) from what I've seen.
Yeah, there's no better way than directional freezing. Either you freeze big old slabs in a way that pushes the dissolved gases (and many dissolved solids) away from the crystal structure of slowly freezing ice and then cut it after the fact, or you directionally freeze something that has an outlet to push the gases down so that you pull the frozen ice from the top compartment before the bottom compartment freezes.
one big cube won't melt nearly as fast as several smaller ones, so your 'beverage' won't get watered-down as much.
and yea. it is a silly item for aldi. might just be one of those "we'll see if it sells or not" things. they often have odd things there that never come back.