Can seem that to make ice for cocktails in house conditions doesn't make any complexity. But pay attention what transparent, often bizzare shapes and flowers, ice in cocktails which give in bars. How to achieve such ideal transparency and to give to ice cubes a special look to strike guests with refined cocktails?
It is required to you
- - purified water
- - forms or disposable bags for ice preparation
- - towel and the kitchen hammer (for ice frappe)
- - juice, berries and pieces of fruit (for color ice)
Instruction
1. In effect, ice is one of forms of water which it takes under the influence of negative temperature. Water from a usual water supply system contains many impurity, at its freezing quite milky ice which is ugly externally and distasteful turns out. Therefore, following one of main rules of bartenders, prepare ice only from a clear water. It isn't obligatory to go to shop behind distilled or bottled. It is possible to use usual, from the system of the centralized supply, having subjected it to cleaning in several stages.
2. Miss water via the filter with fibers of an aqualen and boil in capacity without scum. The ideal decision will be to let this water stand. The impurity which remained in it within several hours will drop out in a deposit. Accurately pour water in other ware. Now it is possible to prepare from it ice for cocktails.
3. For preparation of figured pieces use very convenient silicone molds for ice. They in a good selection are on sale in household shops. Water for preparation of ice in such forms has to be room temperature. Its freezing in the place, certain of products, has to be an indispensable condition for production of ice in open forms. Ice very well adsorbs smells from the deep freeze therefore place molds in the specially allotted place in the freezer. If you have no certain place in the deep freeze, use in that case disposable bags for ice preparation which don't absorb smells.
4. If the compounding of cocktail provides use of color ice, prepare it with addition of juice, leaflets of mint or berries. That berries and leaflets appeared in an ice piece, freeze layer-by-layer: fill in liquid on one third in a form, let's freeze, then put mint leaves, pieces of fruit or berry and fill in with the remained liquid. Also prepare multi-colored ice, using layer-by-layer freezing.
5. Some cocktails demand on a compounding use of a small ice crumb – frappe. For its preparation in bars ice is crushed in special crushers. You will be able to prepare without use of the special equipment houses. Spread out the frozen ice cubes on a half of a clean cotton towel and cover with the soulmate. Take the hammer for meat and the stupid party break ice pieces in a towel. After that pour ice crumbs into a container, cover and place it in the deep freeze. Put crumbs in a glass before the production of cocktail.