View Single Post
  #11  
Old 01-11-2018, 10:22 PM
GaryProtein's Avatar
GaryProtein GaryProtein is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: NY
Posts: 5,393
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by dpgstereo View Post
Looking for a good quality, small ice maker. Want "clear ice". Medium to small cubes...good for chewing. Not the "Sonic" ice. It's good..but looking for a little larger, but clear ice cube. Looking for the perfect ice-tea cube that is chewable.
OMG

DON'T chew ice.

You'll be sorry when you break a tooth or restoration and chalk up a BIG dental bill.




Quote:
Originally Posted by Cohibaman View Post
I have a Reverse Osmose system feeding my ice maker. Although pure water is needed for crystal clear ice, it isn’t enough. As the article points out, you also need to boil the water, not just to remove any bubbles as they state, but more importantly to remove the dissolved oxygen in the water.

I make my giant bourbon ice cubes this way - pain but it works great.
This is true.

You MUST get the dissolved gases out of the water in addition to the disolved solids to have clear ice.

Last edited by GaryProtein; 01-11-2018 at 10:28 PM.
Reply With Quote