Review on Cirrus Ice Ball Press Premium by Steve Collins

I love my ice cream press. I made about 150 ice cream scoops which cost $6 for an ice cream scoop. I add them to my cereal, iced tea, and pretty much everything else. How to make a transparent block of ice: It all depends on how the ice freezes. The home method involves chilling a block of ice in a large 32-ounce mug near the refrigerator door. Strip the bottom half of the mug. First, the top of the ice slowly freezes and the bottom becomes cloudy, all within 24 hours. Cut off the cloudy half and you have pure ice! Now put the clear ice in the press and you have a clear ice ball for a cocktail. Or just freeze the water in a small cooler and put it in the freezer. Distilled water, boiled water and freezing water at 31 degrees will not work. I've tried them all. Wintersmith has a similar product that insulates the shape of the container. Aluminum ice presses are expensive. There are videos on YouTube on how to make these ice cream presses. Each block of aluminum costs about $70. In the next step, the perfect hemisphere is milled. There are several videos of milling these balls. Sending an aluminum block to a mill can cost as much as $100. So making your own press would cost around $240. Paying $800 to retail for this press isn't bad considering the Japanese version costs $1,500. I heard the company came up with 10 designs before receiving the final product. UPDATE 2018: I was just checking out the 70mm/2.75" ice ball makers that are available now. Prices have come down a lot.