in this video we’re gonna be taking a
look at all of the different suggested
methods for making ice that is
completely clear there are several of
them and some will work and some won’t
we’ll find out which ice is really cool
and of course I mean that in multiple
ways but what’s even better is if you
can have ice that’s completely clear you
can see right through it but that’s kind
of a hard effect to achieve today we’re
going to put to the test
several suggested methods for how to get
clear ice the basic idea is we’ll have a
separate container for each of our
different methods for making clear ice
we’ll let them all freeze and we’ll see
which one’s work the best here’s what
we’re gonna try boiling water letting it
cool down and then boiling it again is
one that I’ve seen all over the place as
a surefire method for making clear ice
then there’s the idea that you can use
distilled water and its complete lack of
impurities will let the water
crystallize into a nice clear formation
we’re also going to try putting some
water in our vacuum chamber and letting
that run for a while to sort of suck out
any extra dissolved gases hopefully
those won’t get trapped in the ice and
that will let us get a clear result and
then finally we have a small cooler and
we’re just going to fill this most of
the way with water and put this in the
freezer as well and see what happens if
we force all of the water to freeze from
one direction in this case it will
freeze from the top down as a first step
let’s fill our small pot with water will
boil it let it cool down back to room
temperature and then boil it a second
time before pouring it into this
[Music]
this one’s just distilled water
distilled water is water that’s been run
through a distilling process is boiled
off and the steam is condensed back down
into water and in theory what you’re
left with is water that’s completely
sterile and has nothing else in it so
this should just be hydrogen and oxygen
atoms bonded together in water form
okay now we’ve got some normal tap water
in one of our containers and we’re going
to vacuum it not with vacuum cleaner
vacuum chamber we hit a low pressure
that’s about 25 inches of mercury it
starts boiling and bubbling and the idea
is that by putting it in a vacuum
chamber all of the extra dissolved gases
get pulled right out I’m not entirely
sure how that’s supposed to work because
we’re obviously just creating gas by
causing it to boil at a low pressure
there could be a level where it pulls
out gases before adding more in okay I
now let’s take our cooler and fill it
most of the way we’ll put that in the
just to make sure we’ve really exhausted
all possibilities I took some distilled
water I boiled it twice and then I ran
it in the vacuum chamber for a while so
we can get a test of all three of these
methods at once before we check on that
ice we want to talk a little bit about
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alright let’s crack open the freezer and
see how our ice is doing oh my gosh well
we just have it locked here we go we’ve
got our distilled water we’ve got our
vacuumed water and we have our boiled
water what if we can pop these oh yeah
that was easy it was slightly less easy
but now first impressions they
definitely all have bubbles in them I
have seen quite a few comments talking
about how to get clear ice if you boil
it that’s gonna work you’re gonna have
perfectly clear ice well not really here
is our twice boiled water and that that
has formed ice with bubbles in the
middle
I’ll give it something it is not cracked
the way that our other two are that
might be a function of the boiling that
might be a function of it had slightly
more or less water in it or its
container was just a slightly different
flexibility level so with two of these
and I place them under the water just to
try and get more of a clear surface we
got some pretty gnarly cracks that floor
I mean there already had cracks but some
new ones just popped into existence are
distilled are vacuumed and then are
boiled and sort of the order of most air
bubbles and ice damage to least air
bubbles and ice damage however I don’t
think that it’s necessarily perfectly a
function of being boiled I think there
are other factors at play here for
example I have here a container in which
I froze distilled water that I boiled
twice and then I put in the vacuum
chamber so it’s all three of these
combined and honestly it doesn’t look
any better than the distilled water and
maybe somehow distilled water is just
inherently worse
in terms of air bubbles I’m not sure
let’s run this under some water hope the
glass doesn’t shatter and see if we can
pop it out this is a glass container
rather than the plastic container and
that very well could contribute to the
shape change and all the cracking in
there as well
it’s spinning in there but air can’t get
in there to let it drop out there we go
our distilled vacuumed boiled puck is
boy that might be the worst one of all
and that I believe is mostly because it
was in a glass container which had no
flexibility so when that ice tried to
start expanding it had nowhere to go but
to push itself up for of course if we
had tried to seal in that glass
container it probably would have just
shattered the container ice does not
like to be contained let’s take a look
at our last type of ice and that’s the
ice that we put into a cooler first
impressions is I can see some air
bubbles down in there but when I take a
closer look it becomes obvious that we
actually have multiple inches of
perfectly clear ice before we get to
those bubbles so you can see that those
bubbles start several inches down into
the ice they’re not immediately up at
the top here and what happened is our
cooler made it so that all of the cold
could really only go in through the top
where rather the heat could only escape
out at the top which means that the top
of the ice froze first and it froze down
down into the cooler and after there
were a couple inches of frozen ice or
maybe it’s less than that I can’t tell
because it’s going to distort the light
a little but it got a good ways down and
then it froze under that and that part
has some bubbles trapped in it those
bubbles had no where they could go they
couldn’t escape out of our container
let’s see if we can get this whole ice
block out of our cooler this could be
that’s sounded good there we go there’s
so now we can see how much clear ice
we’re getting out of this I’d say we
have an inch and a half of ice with no
bubbles in it and then we have very very
minimal bubbles for another 3/4 of an
inch and then after that is where the
real bubbles really start see if we
can’t cut our clear ice off of our white
having melted and chipped away most of
the white portion of the ice you can see
how clear we are this point let’s just
send it down here look through it like
that obviously there are still some
little bubbles in here and if you wanted
to make sure you didn’t have any of
those there’s a few things I’d recommend
first is actually taking the ice out
sooner don’t let it freeze all the way
through but just have it freeze for the
top inch and a half or so and then take
the cooler out take your ice block out
and use it however you like the way that
I’ve done it is just to demonstrate why
we get bubbles in the ice we get bubbles
in the ice because there is gas trapped
in the water and we can’t get that out
by boiling it or by vacuum chamber in it
but it’s gonna have gas and contaminants
in the water even if we use distilled
water vacuum it boil it all of that but
if we freeze it from only one direction
then they all sort of get pushed out of
the way and we get some nice beautifully
clear ice before we get to the portions
that are gonna cause problems before we
get to the bubbles and stuff and then
those will get pushed to the bottom so
this is the only way that I have found
to freeze clear ice at home thanks again
to audible for sponsoring today’s video
check the link in the description or go
to audible.com slash the king of random
to start your free trial and get one
free audiobook and two free audible
originals that’s it for today but the
fun doesn’t end here that box at the top
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look at all of the different suggested
methods for making ice that is
completely clear there are several of
them and some will work and some won’t
we’ll find out which ice is really cool
and of course I mean that in multiple
ways but what’s even better is if you
can have ice that’s completely clear you
can see right through it but that’s kind
of a hard effect to achieve today we’re
going to put to the test
several suggested methods for how to get
clear ice the basic idea is we’ll have a
separate container for each of our
different methods for making clear ice
we’ll let them all freeze and we’ll see
which one’s work the best here’s what
we’re gonna try boiling water letting it
cool down and then boiling it again is
one that I’ve seen all over the place as
a surefire method for making clear ice
then there’s the idea that you can use
distilled water and its complete lack of
impurities will let the water
crystallize into a nice clear formation
we’re also going to try putting some
water in our vacuum chamber and letting
that run for a while to sort of suck out
any extra dissolved gases hopefully
those won’t get trapped in the ice and
that will let us get a clear result and
then finally we have a small cooler and
we’re just going to fill this most of
the way with water and put this in the
freezer as well and see what happens if
we force all of the water to freeze from
one direction in this case it will
freeze from the top down as a first step
let’s fill our small pot with water will
boil it let it cool down back to room
temperature and then boil it a second
time before pouring it into this
[Music]
this one’s just distilled water
distilled water is water that’s been run
through a distilling process is boiled
off and the steam is condensed back down
into water and in theory what you’re
left with is water that’s completely
sterile and has nothing else in it so
this should just be hydrogen and oxygen
atoms bonded together in water form
okay now we’ve got some normal tap water
in one of our containers and we’re going
to vacuum it not with vacuum cleaner
vacuum chamber we hit a low pressure
that’s about 25 inches of mercury it
starts boiling and bubbling and the idea
is that by putting it in a vacuum
chamber all of the extra dissolved gases
get pulled right out I’m not entirely
sure how that’s supposed to work because
we’re obviously just creating gas by
causing it to boil at a low pressure
there could be a level where it pulls
out gases before adding more in okay I
now let’s take our cooler and fill it
most of the way we’ll put that in the
just to make sure we’ve really exhausted
all possibilities I took some distilled
water I boiled it twice and then I ran
it in the vacuum chamber for a while so
we can get a test of all three of these
methods at once before we check on that
ice we want to talk a little bit about
audible the sponsor for today’s video
audible has the largest selection of
audiobooks and they’re always adding new
content so they keep things fresh
something new that they’ve just released
is called audible originals audible
originals are exclusive audio titles
created by celebrated storytellers from
things like theater literature
journalism and more since these audible
original pieces are made for an
exclusive to audible you can’t get them
anywhere else audible is offering new
listeners a free 30-day trial that comes
with one credit good for an audiobook
and two credits good for audible
originals with audible all of your media
is yours to keep even if you cancel your
membership you can go back at any time
and listen to pieces even if you aren’t
currently a subscriber recently I’ve
been listening to the audiobook called
Legion the many lives of Stephen Leeds
by Brandon Sanderson it’s great because
I love reading but I don’t often like to
sit still long enough to read a hard
copy get one free audiobook and two
audible originals when you try on a bowl
for free for 30 days go to audible.com
slash the king of random or text the
king of random to 500 500 that’s
audible.com slash th e ki ng ofr a.m. do
em right here there you go good luck
alright let’s crack open the freezer and
see how our ice is doing oh my gosh well
we just have it locked here we go we’ve
got our distilled water we’ve got our
vacuumed water and we have our boiled
water what if we can pop these oh yeah
that was easy it was slightly less easy
but now first impressions they
definitely all have bubbles in them I
have seen quite a few comments talking
about how to get clear ice if you boil
it that’s gonna work you’re gonna have
perfectly clear ice well not really here
is our twice boiled water and that that
has formed ice with bubbles in the
middle
I’ll give it something it is not cracked
the way that our other two are that
might be a function of the boiling that
might be a function of it had slightly
more or less water in it or its
container was just a slightly different
flexibility level so with two of these
and I place them under the water just to
try and get more of a clear surface we
got some pretty gnarly cracks that floor
I mean there already had cracks but some
new ones just popped into existence are
distilled are vacuumed and then are
boiled and sort of the order of most air
bubbles and ice damage to least air
bubbles and ice damage however I don’t
think that it’s necessarily perfectly a
function of being boiled I think there
are other factors at play here for
example I have here a container in which
I froze distilled water that I boiled
twice and then I put in the vacuum
chamber so it’s all three of these
combined and honestly it doesn’t look
any better than the distilled water and
maybe somehow distilled water is just
inherently worse
in terms of air bubbles I’m not sure
let’s run this under some water hope the
glass doesn’t shatter and see if we can
pop it out this is a glass container
rather than the plastic container and
that very well could contribute to the
shape change and all the cracking in
there as well
it’s spinning in there but air can’t get
in there to let it drop out there we go
our distilled vacuumed boiled puck is
boy that might be the worst one of all
and that I believe is mostly because it
was in a glass container which had no
flexibility so when that ice tried to
start expanding it had nowhere to go but
to push itself up for of course if we
had tried to seal in that glass
container it probably would have just
shattered the container ice does not
like to be contained let’s take a look
at our last type of ice and that’s the
ice that we put into a cooler first
impressions is I can see some air
bubbles down in there but when I take a
closer look it becomes obvious that we
actually have multiple inches of
perfectly clear ice before we get to
those bubbles so you can see that those
bubbles start several inches down into
the ice they’re not immediately up at
the top here and what happened is our
cooler made it so that all of the cold
could really only go in through the top
where rather the heat could only escape
out at the top which means that the top
of the ice froze first and it froze down
down into the cooler and after there
were a couple inches of frozen ice or
maybe it’s less than that I can’t tell
because it’s going to distort the light
a little but it got a good ways down and
then it froze under that and that part
has some bubbles trapped in it those
bubbles had no where they could go they
couldn’t escape out of our container
let’s see if we can get this whole ice
block out of our cooler this could be
that’s sounded good there we go there’s
so now we can see how much clear ice
we’re getting out of this I’d say we
have an inch and a half of ice with no
bubbles in it and then we have very very
minimal bubbles for another 3/4 of an
inch and then after that is where the
real bubbles really start see if we
can’t cut our clear ice off of our white
having melted and chipped away most of
the white portion of the ice you can see
how clear we are this point let’s just
send it down here look through it like
that obviously there are still some
little bubbles in here and if you wanted
to make sure you didn’t have any of
those there’s a few things I’d recommend
first is actually taking the ice out
sooner don’t let it freeze all the way
through but just have it freeze for the
top inch and a half or so and then take
the cooler out take your ice block out
and use it however you like the way that
I’ve done it is just to demonstrate why
we get bubbles in the ice we get bubbles
in the ice because there is gas trapped
in the water and we can’t get that out
by boiling it or by vacuum chamber in it
but it’s gonna have gas and contaminants
in the water even if we use distilled
water vacuum it boil it all of that but
if we freeze it from only one direction
then they all sort of get pushed out of
the way and we get some nice beautifully
clear ice before we get to the portions
that are gonna cause problems before we
get to the bubbles and stuff and then
those will get pushed to the bottom so
this is the only way that I have found
to freeze clear ice at home thanks again
to audible for sponsoring today’s video
check the link in the description or go
to audible.com slash the king of random
to start your free trial and get one
free audiobook and two free audible
originals that’s it for today but the
fun doesn’t end here that box at the top
will take you directly to our most
recent video you should go check that
out the other box will show you what
YouTube thinks you should be watching
next if you’re not subscribe to the
channel yet just hit this bomb to get in
the club and that way you’ll never miss
out on a video don’t forget to ring that
Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
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