Want To Make Artisanal Ice At Home? Here's How

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You know how you go to a nice bar and they have like an

ice program where they got big ice, and little ice,

and it's clear, and it's beautiful, and it's presentational.

You're thinking to yourself, I gotta do that.

I gotta do that at home.

That's what the Studio Neat Ice Kit is.

It comes with this rig which you

pour water into and then freeze.

The reason the ice is not clear is that

it has little impurities that nucleate.

You get the kind of clouds inside it.

So this thing is supposed to let some of those

nucleation sites settle.

Okay.

[ice clacks]

Boom!

Using the kit's chisel and mallet,

you're supposed to split the ice into neat cubes.

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Hell, I almost had it.

[Background voice] Oh man.

But let's just say, you were like stranded

in the middle of nowhere with nothing,

nothing but this 80 dollar ice kit,

and perhaps some bourbon and vermouth

and maybe a little bitters.

You wouldn't wanna take out a nice glass.

Wha, how would you even have such a thing?

Unless you have one of these, this is beautiful right?

Now, but you're worried, you're thinking,

Oh my god, that's gonna break.

What happens if he drops it?

[thuds]

Oh look at that, nothing at all.

Because this, this is a Snow Peak rocks tumbler,

twenty-five dollars, look at that.

It just wants whiskey.

That's all it wants, is whiskey.

Fortunately, I could help.

That's what I mean by these shards,

they actually look really nice.

Um, emergency Manhattan.

[shimmering]

Bourbon,

vermouth,

bitters.

Watch this, what do you do, how do you stir it?

What do we do, I don't know.

It's your Manhattan, it's fine.

See that's great.

That is how you solve an emergency.