Siliconen ijsbal maker mal, ronde ijsblokjesvormen met deksel, ijsblokjesballen -5 cm, bal ijsblokjes geweldig voor gelei, melk, sap, chocolade of cocktails, whisky en plastic trechter (9)

It’s a bit smaller than I thought, but it will do 😄

Nice ice ball maker. Works really good, just have to run it under some warm water to get the it to initially release after freezing.

It took me a minute to work out how to get anything other than oval-ish shaped ice, but now I've figured it out and it's great.The set comes with a mini funnel, so I dutifully used it to fill each sphere up once I'd half filled and put the lid on. I was ending up with odd shaped balls (fnar fnar) every time. I discovered after a few times that -1) you must make sure you press down really firmly on each little black button bit, and all around the edge to ensure the mould is totally closed. I know this sounds obvious, but I was carefully pushing it down around the edges and didn't consider doing the internal ones; I thought they were just a design feature.2) you can fill the tray all the way up before putting on the top rubberised piece. If you do this, then carefully press the top of the mould on, I found that the spheres were all pretty much filled. You can tell by very gently pressing the tops and you'll see a little bubble of water where the hole at the top of each sphere is. This saves a load of faffing with the funnel as you only need to top one or two up, rather than having to fill all of them from the halfway point.Since getting the knack of them I've found it really easy to use, and it makes nice round ice that takes a good while to melt. I think they'd look very pretty with herbs or flowers in them too.Very happy with it!

This ice cube maker comes with a clear plastic moulded top and a black silicon base that you put together to create the mould. You then use a little funnel that comes with this ice ball maker to fill the mould. I initially thought you had to fill each sphere separately, but you fill the whole mould through any of the spheres as they all have a filling point. The water spreads through the whole mould. Once full you carefully put into a freezer and it makes 9 balls of ice.This product loses a star for just how fiddly it is. The water in the mould pushes the silicon part away from the plastic part of the mould as you fill it, and as you push the silicon part back down to make the mould again, water then comes back out of the filling holes and makes a mess. So it takes perseverance to get the mould to stay together and get it sufficiently full of water. As it freezes water expands, and so a little water comes out of the filling holes in the freezer and freezes on the outside of the mould as well. However as water expands it does make near perfect round balls of ice.When its frozen its then difficult to separate the two parts of the mould. They become frozen together. I used a little hot water over the mould to loosen it and then when it came apart you have to tidy up all the loose bits of ice that have formed between the frozen balls (see pic).Now im not saying it doesnt work, but it takes much more effort to make than normal ice cubes. Normally I fill a tray, put the lid on and hey presto ice cubes...this takes care and is fiddly so it loses a star.

My first attempt did not produce good results, a lot of half spheres and a lot of ice linking them.Before my second attempt I read one of the other reviewers advice and the results from that were much better, all ice cubes where spherical but still some 'spare' ice.I'm still not great at filling but my current methodology, for batch 3, is to just fill the opaque base, then put the black bit on top, pressing down on the outside edges only. Then when I continue filling the water is able to flow between the compartments, meaning only one needs to be used to fill them all. Then once water is at the top push down on the little flat raised circles to isolate each compartment from the others, and hopefully clear away the excess water between compartments.This results in the 'spare' water flowing up to the top of the black part, which can be carefully poured away, and the whole thing can be placed in a freezer.The result, lots of separated complete ice spheres.After my first attempt/disaster I didn't like this thing, but now, having had a little success, it's okay.If you are after spherical cubes of ice (and who, looking at this listing, isn't?) then this thing works well.