This is a real time video of our first Ice Press pressing a 2" cube of clear ice from OnTheRocks into a 50mm ice sphere. Comment if your interested in how it works!
It's made of aluminum which conducts heat very well. Then the pressure of gravity "molds" it into shape. Cheap materials honestly, but expensive because no one has the manufacturing capability to make a bunch of them at home
@@Pandach_1 about any CNC could rip these things out in no time. Even a small shop could manufacture hundreds a day, and a decent size shop could do thousands a day. Think about all the other things machined out of aluminum that are far more complex, yet they make a ton of them. The capability to machine these is a non-factor.
It creates a much clearer result in much less time. A lot of basic molds can be quite leaky, and the resulting ice is very opaque. Some ice molds can create shapes with a clear result, but it often takes a whole day just for a few peaces of ice. A press is probably the fastest and most efficient way to get ice shapes.
★Making "perfect" ice is its own process. I don't know how it's done with distilled or treated water-but the concept is: -SLOWLY freeze the ice over an extended period of time: this allows imperfections/sediment/minerals to "settle" to the bottom, separating in the slow freezing process so that they can be removed. The way I was shown was to use a special cooler (or a normal one with the top ripped off in your home freezer) to make a sheet. He then used a bandsaw to cut the "white ice"(imperfections) away from the clear ice (PURE.WATER.). This makes sense to me because I'd first heard of "perfect" ice being cut from the tops if rivers in Scandinavia that freeze slowly as the water is moving. Moving water would work like a "tumbler" allowing solids/mud/sediment to settle to the bottom/lower areas of the river bed. -Another gentleman recently told me if you simply "score" the sections of ice with a butter knife, you can smack it with a metal/plastic/poly mallet, and it will split the perfect away. Same process to split into cubes. ‐This is the third step, to take the cubes & form them into perfect spheres. ★The purpose?: PURE frozen water/"perfect ice" melts WAYY more slowly, and keeps the drink colder longer. The spherical shape will also melt more evenly, thus, slowly, as opposed to a cube. I haven't ever experienced it (yet- though I'm going to play with these processes soon) but the unanimous feedback is that it makes WORLDS of difference. I hope my explanation made as much sense as it all did to me!
I understand I'm a viewer who saw this comment 4 years late and the publisher didn't say, but you can find them just by looking up "Ice ball press". They tend to be very expensive because it's a luxury item and even though it's made of Aluminum and Steel people at home don't have the machine to manufacture it. I would recommend you buy a solid cheap one from Cocktail Kingdom, but I bought an extremely fancy deluxe version from Atmos Ice Press in the UK. Shipping hurt!
Dude has his heater cranked up to 85
This is FRIGGIN SORCERY! A client showed me this, and I will STILL not believe this doesn't need a heat source until I get my own press. 😂
Ice melts under pressure it's the same concept behind ice skating
Interesting... what is being accomplished here, and how does it happen?
It's made of aluminum which conducts heat very well. Then the pressure of gravity "molds" it into shape. Cheap materials honestly, but expensive because no one has the manufacturing capability to make a bunch of them at home
@@Pandach_1 about any CNC could rip these things out in no time. Even a small shop could manufacture hundreds a day, and a decent size shop could do thousands a day. Think about all the other things machined out of aluminum that are far more complex, yet they make a ton of them. The capability to machine these is a non-factor.
@@nickterbrack136 Well said
Why not use a silicone ice mold? Who the heck wants water running all over their counter?!?
It creates a much clearer result in much less time. A lot of basic molds can be quite leaky, and the resulting ice is very opaque. Some ice molds can create shapes with a clear result, but it often takes a whole day just for a few peaces of ice. A press is probably the fastest and most efficient way to get ice shapes.
★Making "perfect" ice is its own process. I don't know how it's done with distilled or treated water-but the concept is:
-SLOWLY freeze the ice over an extended period of time: this allows imperfections/sediment/minerals to "settle" to the bottom, separating in the slow freezing process so that they can be removed.
The way I was shown was to use a special cooler (or a normal one with the top ripped off in your home freezer) to make a sheet.
He then used a bandsaw to cut the "white ice"(imperfections) away from the clear ice (PURE.WATER.).
This makes sense to me because I'd first heard of "perfect" ice being cut from the tops if rivers in Scandinavia that freeze slowly as the water is moving. Moving water would work like a "tumbler" allowing solids/mud/sediment to settle to the bottom/lower areas of the river bed.
-Another gentleman recently told me if you simply "score" the sections of ice with a butter knife, you can smack it with a metal/plastic/poly mallet, and it will split the perfect away. Same process to split into cubes.
‐This is the third step, to take the cubes & form them into perfect spheres.
★The purpose?:
PURE frozen water/"perfect ice" melts WAYY more slowly, and keeps the drink colder longer.
The spherical shape will also melt more evenly, thus, slowly, as opposed to a cube.
I haven't ever experienced it (yet- though I'm going to play with these processes soon) but the unanimous feedback is that it makes WORLDS of difference.
I hope my explanation made as much sense as it all did to me!
lol they usually come with a tray to collect the water on the bottom
Wow! Where do I get one?
I understand I'm a viewer who saw this comment 4 years late and the publisher didn't say, but you can find them just by looking up "Ice ball press". They tend to be very expensive because it's a luxury item and even though it's made of Aluminum and Steel people at home don't have the machine to manufacture it. I would recommend you buy a solid cheap one from Cocktail Kingdom, but I bought an extremely fancy deluxe version from Atmos Ice Press in the UK. Shipping hurt!
guess you will never know :)
where can i order ?