Chris has been making cocktail ice at home for a while now, using a cooler to keep the sides from crystallizing too much and allow the top of the ice block to stay clear.

I caught him pulling a fresh batch out this evening. He has to trim off the thin bottom edges (saved for crushed ice) and then chop the larger block in to smaller rough blocks to be used and shaped later.

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