Making Ice Blocks At Home

You can purchase block ice at businesses such as grocery or convenience stores or a fishing supply shop but it is much more cost effective to make your own ice blocks at home.

Making ice blocks at home.

It costs less and you can make the size blocks that work best for you. All it requires is a freezer a few basic supplies and some patience. If you use a cooler for food storage block ice will last far longer than ice cubes. Place a container the size of the block of ice you want to create in the freezer so that the bottom of the container rests on a flat solid surface.

Kiwi and pineapple ice blocks from the slow roasted italian. Lava flow ice blocks from one lovely life. Commercial ice blocks tend to be packed with sugar and many that claim to be fruit flavoured contain only 5 20 actual fruit. Make them with water yoghurt or coconut milk depending on your taste.

We ve got three delicious options right here piña colada icies tropical fruity icies and strawberry and yogurt icies. An ice block will not melt as quickly as ice cubes because of its density. Method 1 of 2. Luckily it is of a shape that allows for easy removal of the ice block.

This igloo cooler is a totally workable vessel for making clear ice blocks in my home freezer. Freezing an ice block for ice blocking. But this simple 4 ingredient recipe changes all that. In this first experiment with the cooler i set the freezer temperature on the lowest setting.

So why even make block ice. Luckily making large blocks of ice at home is not hard. Sometimes too it can be hard to find block ice and so you have to make your own that s our problem. Summer apricot yoghurt ice blocks from strudel and cream.

Fresh fruit ice blocks from the nerd s wife. And making your own has two advantages.