Review on 🧊 Kitch 2 Pack Large Cube Silicone Ice Tray - Giant 2 Inch Ice Cubes, Cobalt Blue, Keep Drinks Cool for Hours by Shelly Pearson

General usability is excellent. The form factor is excellent. I really liked these bowls. First. Then I noticed, like many other users, particles or cloudy material these bowls produce every time I use the ice cubes I make with them. This was most evident when I also let the water sit in the cup. I started seeing movies on the inside of my drinking cups. These films wash off, but I've never seen this happen before and it's only happened when I've used the ice cream made in these bowls. When I use regular ice cubes that my fridge makes with an ice maker, there is no film on it and I've never seen one in the 5 years that I've owned this fridge. I only get film/cloud with these ice trays. I've had these bowls for several months now. I washed them often. I've probably driven ice through them more than 50 times. In both cases, I use the same filtered water source from my fridge, so the water source is not an issue. I read the reviews on this item that others wrote about where the cloud (hard water) came from and it didn't make sense. me. I've never seen that with other ice cubes. So I did a simple experiment. I put ice cubes from the ice maker in the fridge and some water from the fridge (filtered water) in a cup. Then I filled this silicone bowl with the same filtered water from my fridge, made some ice and put it in another cup. Then I melted the ice in both cups. Photos are attached. Can you guess which cup the silicone tray ice cubes were in? One cup is crystal clear and the other cloudy. I'm not sure why bubbles form on clean glass and aren't cloudy, but I suspect it's some sort of dissolved gas nucleation. maybe someone else can explain. Anyway, it's pretty clear to me that something is afoot with these silicone bowls that is causing cloudy stuff to get into my water. I have two such tablets - both have the same behavior. I've had them for MONTHS. I've washed them, used them dozens of times, if not more, and the results are consistent. They create a kind of cloudy suspension in my ice/water. I don't know if I have a "bad batch" but after all the emails I doubt it. I don't know if anything leaches out of the silicone. I don't know if there is any reaction with my water and those silicone bowls that I've never seen when I'm not using these bowls. I'll leave it to the internet experts to debate exactly where this haze is coming from, but I don't care. I throw them both away immediately. If you have concerns, I encourage you to try the same experiment. Don't take my word for it on the internet, where experts are as commonplace as grains of sand. Use the same water, freeze in an ice cube tray and freeze in a glass tumbler. Melt them and see what you get.