Excellent work! I think it was this person that launched my own home ice making journey.
My process is simple and involves freezing in quart containers and then carving with a steak knife and rubber mallet. Watching the freezing process has been neat, at one point I get a shell that could be used as a glass by itself.
This might be covered by the literature but my observation is that the ice becomes cloudy late in the freezing process which makes me suspect the issue is small fractures or imperfections in the crystal as a consequence of mechanical forces - the ice tried to occupy an area that is just a touch too small. This doesn't gel with other folks observations however who see cloudyness before the ice fully finishes freezing.
My process is simple and involves freezing in quart containers and then carving with a steak knife and rubber mallet. Watching the freezing process has been neat, at one point I get a shell that could be used as a glass by itself.
This might be covered by the literature but my observation is that the ice becomes cloudy late in the freezing process which makes me suspect the issue is small fractures or imperfections in the crystal as a consequence of mechanical forces - the ice tried to occupy an area that is just a touch too small. This doesn't gel with other folks observations however who see cloudyness before the ice fully finishes freezing.