Housewares Solutions Froz Ice Ball Maker – Novelty Food-Grade Silicone Ice Mold Tray with 4 X 4.5cm Ball Capacity

Excellent my daughter bought these for Christmas so I thought I'd treat myself.

Although a little small if you have gin balloon glasses, this is easy to use and makes ice balls that don’t melt as quickly as normal ice cubes.

I was very excited about making cocktails for the family over the bank holiday weekend and I ordered a few bits from Amazon including these moulds. Easy to use and came out fine. I thought the spheres were a bit bigger and I I was s bit disappointed about the price since my daughter bought them somewhere else for a third of the price.

I love that this is food grade and non toxic. However, these soft silicone trays do not close together very well. There is an awful lot of overspill from the bottom layer before the top fills up. You have to balance these delicate trays more carefully than normal in the freezer because they spill at the slightest touch or wobble. Fine for special occasions when the freezer isn't full though!

Great for novelty ice spheres in a glass off gin or whiskey. Very easy to make the spheres and the silicon mould is very durable. It’s been in constant use since I bought it and still like brand new. Great value for money.

Great that I can now make decent sized ice balls for my drinks, which last for a while. Bit of a faff filling it up with the small funnel though. But hey ho, no pain no gain.

If you can keep the water in the resulting ice balls are excellent, I found putting the water in through the funnel a bit fiddly and the seal between the two halves could be better as some water can leak out

Once you get used to how they work and how to make them as spherical as possible, these are great moulds! The freezer tray you put them in needs to be perfectly flat. Personally I used to carefully add water the specified level, push the mould down etc, but I still found results a bit random. Now I just fill it right up to the top, squash it together, freeze it and chip off the 'rings' with a spoon edge afterwards - I find this quicker than having to carefully assemble it with perfect water levels before freezing. The spherical ice definitely lasts longer than cube ones and dilutes your drinks less for a fair while.

funktioniert gut, schöne Eisbälle.

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La neta si está bueno el producto, queda muy bien ahora ver cuando tiempo aguanta

The ice ball tray works really well and is a great addition for anyone who enjoys a good drink. It’s fairly easy to use once you get the hang of how much water to fill it with, and the ice balls pop out easily without much effort. They look fantastic in a glass of whiskey and really elevate the presentation. Overall, a simple product that does exactly what it’s supposed to and adds a nice touch to your drinks.

Following the instructions, it recommends that you fill the bottom half of the mold with water up to the top of the line on the bottom molds, which should be all you need. Didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me but I did that and aligned/put the top mold on top of the bottom mold, when I did that the water from the bottom mold did push the water up and filled the top mold to the top ice ball hole/nipple. Pretty cool how that worked. The only problem with that and I did not realize it until all my ice balls where done and I cracked them out of the mold. You will definitely have a ring around your ice spheres if you don’t make sure that when you do set that top mold down it needs to marry up with the bottom mold seams perfectly all the way around each of the individual 4 ice molds. Technically speaking the top and bottom molds has a tongue and grove indent (the seam) that when closed properly is supposed to snap flat and flush together to keep the water isolated and contained to each sphere when freezing, if these two pieces has a gap in it and not properly seated you will get that ring around your ice ball without fail. Found that out after all mines came out with that crazy size ring around them. I then realized that I didn’t make sure the two pieces was snapped securely together. BUT……….per instructions that is pretty hard to do when it is filled with water, there is a learning curve and process that goes with that. I recommend ditching the instructions and just do like I figured out how to fill these molds to get perfect round spheres, ring free. Now we are doing the opposite of what the instructions is telling you do. Take the two molds and put them together,( You’re doing this with NO WATER IN THEM) take your fingers and go around each of the four molds snapping them flat and flush, you should hear and feel it going flat as you go around each one. You should also see both bottom and top lips of the molds perfectly kissing each other with no raised portion on them all the way around the mold, if you seated each mold correctly. Take your water and fill up each of the four molds through the hole/nipple on the top, fill the water all the way until it just overflows out of the holes. Don’t worry about over spills in the tray until you filled up all four molds. If you care you can take your thumb and index finger from both hands and cover up all four holes at the same time and flip the mold over to drain out the overfill water in the tray before you stick it in the freeze, trust me you will not see any more or a whole lot of water in that tray when you take it back out the freezer. What you will have is a perfectly round (not deformed) ice balls, with no rings. ‘NO RINGS’. By the way I did use purified water (Dasani) for testing, it was an improvement but I wouldn’t go out the way and say that’s the way to go.