Review on 🧊 Housewares Solutions Froz Ice Ball Maker: Food-Grade Silicone Mold Tray with 4 X 4.5cm Ball Capacity - Novelty Ice Mold for Perfectly Chilled Drinks by Gary Davis

Here's my experience with these devices after about a week: I use them to make ice out of bottled water. Nice silicone bowls. I have not noticed any bad odors from trays or ice cream being produced. The holes in the top are not intended to fill the bowls, as one might initially expect, but to allow the water to expand and have room to exit. This has its pros and cons. To fill the inner sphere, lift the lower water bowl over half the spheres. Then you press the top cap and this pushes the water into the top half (very smart design). Any overflow exits through holes at the top and spills onto the top of the upper tray. The instructions suggest filling the tub so that the resulting water level is below the level of the overflow holes after putting everything back. together - it's like splitting an atom on the kitchen table. It is difficult to determine where this level lies. But still, it's not that bad; In most cases, after you get used to pouring into the trays several times, the water will be below the level of the wells. Ice cream takes about 4 hours to freeze. The instructions say to press up/down on the edge of each sphere to break Saturn like an ice ring. Okay, I didn't expect to have to do this, but it's not the end of the world. This will help break off the small ring that forms from the seam between the two shells. In most cases, your ice cream ball will have some remnant of this ring, but usually not much. The bullet also usually has an ice nipple that is frozen and expanding into an overflow hole. It can be snapped off easily (before disassembling the molds). If you're not throwing a fancy party, you might as well just leave it. Generally not that bad. I will say that the bullet has a nasty habit of breaking in half (maybe 1 in 8 or 10 produced). This appears to be the result of inclusions formed during freezing. So if you're doing something tricky to make perfectly clear ice (I've heard you can boil water but never successfully tried), it might not be as common as a problem. Although some of the balls turn into crescents, it's still handy to have large balls of ice cream. Do they last longer than regular smaller ice cubes? I have no idea. I was planning to test it with a gram scale, measure water, etc. but didn't have time. The trays are a little pricey, but they're still a fun novelty to experiment with. It's nice to use smaller sized ice balls in water or other beverages.