Seriously.
We go through a LOT of ice, so we're constantly buying bags (our water makes terrible ice, & ice is cheap to buy). There are two stores reasonably close by which sell ice. One sells the tube like ice (cylinders with a relatively small hole cut through it) while one sells ice in flat cubes (maybe 1.5"x1.5"x0.5").
Ice is ice, right?
The problem is the ice that comes in cubes sticks together like crazy. It's reasonably loose when we first get it, but within a day or two it's forming large chunks & we usually end up tossing the last 1/4 of the bag because it's solidified into one impenetrable ball.
It also has a tendency to grow frost.
The cylinder ice, however, doesn't stick together. It stays loose, which makes it very easy to grab a handful when you need it. And it doesn't grow frost.
What the heck makes the difference? Both are kept in the same freezer, so there isn't a temperature difference. If one company was adding something to their ice they would have to have an ingredients list, right? Unfortunately the store that sells the good ice is much further away than the other, so we usually end up with crappy ice.
But frozen water is frozen water... right?
Viper GTS
We go through a LOT of ice, so we're constantly buying bags (our water makes terrible ice, & ice is cheap to buy). There are two stores reasonably close by which sell ice. One sells the tube like ice (cylinders with a relatively small hole cut through it) while one sells ice in flat cubes (maybe 1.5"x1.5"x0.5").
Ice is ice, right?
The problem is the ice that comes in cubes sticks together like crazy. It's reasonably loose when we first get it, but within a day or two it's forming large chunks & we usually end up tossing the last 1/4 of the bag because it's solidified into one impenetrable ball.
The cylinder ice, however, doesn't stick together. It stays loose, which makes it very easy to grab a handful when you need it. And it doesn't grow frost.
What the heck makes the difference? Both are kept in the same freezer, so there isn't a temperature difference. If one company was adding something to their ice they would have to have an ingredients list, right? Unfortunately the store that sells the good ice is much further away than the other, so we usually end up with crappy ice.
But frozen water is frozen water... right?
Viper GTS