Watermelon in my front yard

Ice so need to get out more

I tried to make clear ice cubes yesterday, after reading these and these instructions. Distilled water made clearer cubes than tap water, but re-freezing or double boiling didn't have a noticeable effect.

From left to right: tap water, distilled water, refreezed distilled, boiled distilled.

I felt a bit decadent trying to get perfect ice... and looked online for examples of the same sort of thing just before the falls of the Roman and British empires... and indeed there was concern in Rome over water quality which sort of counts and the Brits loved ice for their cocktails in India... So something big is about to happen.

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