Silicone Ice Cube Tray Clear 2 Inch Ice Cube Tray for Whiskey Cocktails

The Good : Easy to make super clear ice I did not mess with water temp or anything, just poured hot water from the faucet and voilà The Bad : Silicon tray does not make perfectly square cubes Not sure how long the foam around will last... Difficult to get the ice out for the tray

EDITED REVIEW SEE BELOW FOR MY ORIGINAL COMMENTS So I may have been overly critical in my original remarks because I didn't really have a working system for using this product. One thing that I couldn't stand about this was it was very messy. From putting the water in, to taking the ice out. What I have found is that if you fill the plastic tub with warm water to within 3/8" to 1/4" from the top and then just place the blue silicone mold on top of the water, it will fill up through the holes and sink down as far as it will go. Once it's is down all the way, lightly push it down to insure it's seated . Then carefully put the tub into the colse cell foam box and carefully place it in the freezer. Leave it in the freezer for 36 hours and then you're ready to pull out the cubes. Run hot water around the outside of the plastic tub to ease in removing the ice mold. You don't need to go crazy, just enough hot water to pull out the ice tray. Don't try to melt the ice. Once the large block of ice is removed from the tub, take the back of a spoon and tap around the ice mold right along the bottom edge of the tray. Don't smack it hard, just enough to Crack the ice at that mating point. Then, twist the silicone mold like you would to a regular tray of ice. The mold will fall away from the chunk of ice and you can remove the individual cubes. You follow this procedure and you should never have any problems and you will be much happier afterwards!! ORIGINAL COMMENTS It's not user friendly.. the holes in the bottom of the ice tray make it very cumbersome. The water underneath the tray ends up freezing to the ice in the tray and it a real pain in the butt to get separated. By the time you get it separated, the cubes have started to melt, then they stick to each other... I don't want to say it isn't worth it, because having clear ice is pretty impressive... But it's not worth the hassle to mess with on a regular basis. Oh, and it takes forever to freeze...

In Deutschland leider keine Eiswürfelformen für mehrere klare Eiswürfel erhältlich, deshalb "musste" ich den hier über Amazon US bestellen. Funktioniert mit der beiliegenden Anleitung tadellos (braucht allerdings statt 16-18 Stunden eher 24-26 Stunden), aber beim Auspacken war ich schon ziemlich schockiert über die Qualität des Produkts. Die äußere Isolierung für das langsame Gefrieren des Wassers ist aller einfachstes Verpackungsmaterial, nur grob zusammengeklebt. Dafür 48€ (inkl Versand) ist eine Frechheit. 60$ direkt in den Staaten sowieso. Die Hälfte wäre mit dieser Qualität gerechtfertigt.

I've been using this for about a month now and initially it worked perfectly. I'm not sure what is going on now, but my cubes are getting smaller. I fill the bottom part with warm water and then set it in the freezer and fill the cube tray up to the very top. Eighteen or so hours later, I get nice clear cubes but somehow they are all about 1/4 inch or so down into the tray. The water seems to be coming up the sides between the silicone tray and plastic box and then leaking out into the freezer. My plastic box does not seem to be leaking at all, but for some reason the water is pushing itself out and the tray level drops resulting in approximately 2" X 2" X 1 3/4" less than square cubes. I'm going to try all cool water and see if that helps. I'm just not sure what sort of molecular process is going on here. Don't get me wrong, I love love love this thing. I just want to get this issue sorted out. *EDIT* : Using the same temperature water reduces the "shrinkage" of the cubes. I think using warm / hot water in the bottom seemed to cause the top to freeze so much faster than the bottom that there was a lot of expansion that had to go someplace. I just fill it with cool tap water and put it in the freezer now. You should always put this on top of a tray or something because it's going to overflow a little bit no matter what I think and you don't want extra water just spilling in your freezer and freezing to the bottom or wherever.