I’m actually not joking, if you rinse an ice cube. Superficial ice immediately melts and is rinsed away. You could have dipped it in engine oil and it would be immediately pure ice after rinsing.
You’re assuming that all the contamination is on the surface, but there is hair, lint, and other particles under your fridge that will stick into the ice.
Also, your example of motor oil was a poor choice. Oil is probably not going to stick to your ice, unless it is in contact long enough to freeze, or get viscous enough to cling to it, and oil will not rinse away cleanly.
Hair and lint can stick to the ice, but try it for yourself, ice isn’t a sponge. The only way for anything on the surface to work it’s way in is to melt it’s way in, and then freeze the outer shell again. Akin to dropping the ice, kicking it under the fridge, fishing it back out, tossing it back into the ice tray. In which case, you deserve all the hair in your cocktail.
Ooh ooh, I want to escalate this thread into entirely new levels of unrealistic pedantry by talking about both hydrogen atoms and our own neurology and perceptions.
I’m actually not joking, if you rinse an ice cube. Superficial ice immediately melts and is rinsed away. You could have dipped it in engine oil and it would be immediately pure ice after rinsing.
Yeah, it’s probably fine… but still, it’s just an ice cube. Maybe if it’s like… the last one or something.
You’re assuming that all the contamination is on the surface, but there is hair, lint, and other particles under your fridge that will stick into the ice.
Also, your example of motor oil was a poor choice. Oil is probably not going to stick to your ice, unless it is in contact long enough to freeze, or get viscous enough to cling to it, and oil will not rinse away cleanly.
Also, how bad to you need to save one ice cube?
Hair and lint can stick to the ice, but try it for yourself, ice isn’t a sponge. The only way for anything on the surface to work it’s way in is to melt it’s way in, and then freeze the outer shell again. Akin to dropping the ice, kicking it under the fridge, fishing it back out, tossing it back into the ice tray. In which case, you deserve all the hair in your cocktail.
Ooh ooh, I want to escalate this thread into entirely new levels of unrealistic pedantry by talking about both hydrogen atoms and our own neurology and perceptions.
My ice cubes are small enough that rinsing them would waste more water than just tossing the very few that fall. I toss em in the sink.