The Ultimate Ice Cube Maker Silicone Bucket with Lid Makes Small Size Nugget Ice Chips for Soft Drinks, Cocktail Ice, Wine On Ice, Crushed Ice Maker Bucket Ice Tray Silicon Ice Cube Molds Cylinder Ice

Love the size of the ice chips. I buy 4 and they fit perfectly in one side of my freezer. This is my 2nd set in 3 years. What I've learned to make perfect ice is: Upon receipt I Iet the hard inner plastic and the soft outer silicon containers soak seperately in Dawn for a few hours. After washing real good I let them completely dry out over night.When filling with water I prefer to use filtered water. I use my index and thumb finger, about an inch apart, to make a gap between the soft silicone and the hard inner plastic container in which to fill with water. I let them freeze for 6-8 hours. To remove the ice I tap on the sides about 5 times, with the palms of both hands. Then I push up on the bottom to remove the hard inner container. I squeeze the soft outer container down and roll it aound. The ice comes out so easily and perfect. I then let the containers dry for at least 12 hours before filling them up again.After both my refrigerator ice makers broke I bought a few different portable ice makers and hated them both so then I decided to try these for the soft ice I wanted. These are well worth the money and I like the size of the ice chips.

I love this whole concept except the fact that the lid does not close and cover the cup with sense so any scent from your freezer can get into your ice but it is cool and fun to use

It WORKS! And it is very easy (and kinda fun) to use. Just a few minor details that dropped it to a 4 star rating:1. If the inner plastic container is empty when making ice, the container may end up floating, causing the water to pool under it thus creating one big solid block of ice. *tip: make sure to double check that it is NOT floating once you set in freezer, the cover will not sit properly which will be your first hint; place it on a flat surface in your freezer (instead of on, I dunno, a bag of frozen chicken) and place something heavy on top to keep it weighed down. You will probably only have to do this for the first round of ice.2. You cannot pour the ice out (as I like to do to save time) while trying to freeze another batch of ice because all the water will pour out (haha!), however I like this product so much that I will be buying another one to have in rotation.*Also, I would suggest on your first fill, to fill the water, then take the container OUT and see where the water line is, and use THAT line to fill water WITHOUT the container inside, and THEN pushing the container in, thus displacing the water accordingly. RATHER than having the container filled with some ice already, trying to refill water in the tiny space provided by tugging on the silicone, and accidentally spilling water into your ice bucket, either melting your ice or creating an ice block on the bottom of your bucket ;)IT IS WORTH IT!

I was a little skeptical after reading reviews of this type of product (and purchased this one because it had better reviews than others did). I don't use a whole lot of ice, but freezer space is tight in my home, and I hate having so much space taken up by regular ice cube trays that I can't really put anything above (because the ice would get dirty) or below (because it would be uneven, so water would spill). This is not a huge thing - it doesn't hold a ton of ice. It doesn't make big cubes. But it does what it says. I like that it has a lid, too - everything stays clean.I didn't find it too hard to get the ice out in between making batches - just press around the sides before removing the cup, to loosen things up. The cup holds about 3 batches worth of ice. In my photo, I have 3 batches in the cup and a 4th batch being stores in the edge compartment.The tricky part is trying to get the outside (ice-making) area as full as possible without spilling any water into the center cup. For the first fill, it's easy because if you mess up, you can just dump out the water and start over. (Or if you end up with a little spilled in the bottom of the cup on the first batch, no big deal.) For 2nd and 3rd batches, when the cup has some "made" ice in it, you really don't want to spill water into the cup of ice, because it will just freeze the already-made ice cubes together into a block. I've found if I'm paying attention and being careful, it's easy to avoid this. Holding the cup down while putting water in the edge section helps. If you realize the cup started floating a little, tilt the whole thing to pour out some of the water, push the cup back down, and start filling it again. (If you fill the sides, realize the cup has floated, and *then* push it back down, water quickly spills over the top, which you want to avoid.)