How do you make ice cubes?

[cojak]

With a Frost Free Freezer??

The bloody things evaporate when I try..

I've looked for covered trays but come up with nothing and I'm beginning to get desperate...

[xoggoth]

ER.. stick the tray in a sealed plastic bag?

Nah it's a trick question isn't it? Now you're laughing at me. And my mule. My mule doesnt like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea they're laughing at him.

[zeitghost]

How about your slug, Xogg?

Does he/she/it get upset when people laugh?

Must be few things worse than an upset slug...

[expat]

With a Frost Free Freezer??

The bloody things evaporate when I try..

I've looked for covered trays but come up with nothing and I'm beginning to get desperate...

Ice cube bags. Any supermarket.

[Lockhouse]

Assuming you are serious - all supermarkets sell ice cube bags for just such a purpose, you just fill them up with water, stick them in the freezer and away you go. Much easier to use then trays as well. However if you want a stupid answer, I'm sure several will be along in a minute....

[DimPrawn]

1. Take liquid water
2. Place into a suitable container
3. Expose container of water to temperatures below the freezing point of water at the specified atmospheric pressure.
4. Wait until the phase change is complete

Voila! Ice Cubes


HTH

[zeitghost]

Fly private plane to the Arctic.

Select suitable iceberg.

Chip off required bits.

Fly back home.

Sorted.

HTH.

Threaded.

[hyperD]

Here's the science bit

"Water vapor from the air in your freezer is periodically removed as melt water and deposited outside of the freezer. This shifts the equilibrium towards more water sublimating from the remaining ice cubes and thus the ice cubes dwindling over time. You cannot have an static equilibrium state between solid ice and water vapor in the air if you continually remove that vapor by melting it from the condensor and placing it outside the freezer."

Suggestion: pour yourself more gin & tonics to use up the ice more quickly.

[TheMonkey]

Don't use the ice cube bags unless you like little bits of plastic in your drink - they are rubbish.

Best bet for decent quality ice is buy bags of it from the supermarket and stick it in the ice despenser chute on your big american style fridge

[ladymuck]

I use ice cube bags all the time and never have a problem with bits of plastic. I get mine from Sainsburys, perhaps the Lidl ones you get are not of decent quality.

Also, I too have a frost free freezer yet have never experienced evaporation of the cubes. But then I do use the 'ice drawer' that is at the top of the freezer.

Oh and you can make vodka ice cubes in the same way as normal ice cubes. Takes about 3 weeks for them to set properly (that was with black label smirnoff, could be different for a lower proof voddie).