03/05/2026
Clear ice hits different. Drop “ice” in the comments if you want a link to this!
for the discerning eyes out there, yes I used the rye, not bourbon. It makes one hell of an old fashioned.
BTW, if youre wondering what those streaks are on the ice, What you’re seeing is basically the path that trapped air and impurities take as they get pushed outward during the freezing process.
As the ice crystal forms, it pushes dissolved gases and minerals ahead of it. But if the freezing happens a little too fast or the water has more dissolved air than usual, some of those gas bubbles get caught along the way and freeze in place before they can fully escape.
They tend to follow the natural crystal structure of the ice, which is why they look like rays or streaks radiating outward rather than random cloudiness.
A few things that can help reduce them: use hot or boiled water since that drives out a lot of the dissolved air before you even freeze it.
If you have hard water, that mineral content is working against you too, so filtered water can make a noticeable difference. but you’re already using filtered water because you’re not a psycopath.
