ViskiGlacier Rocks® Ice Sphere Molds

Got this for my husband for his groom's gift and it was an instant hit with him as well as his friends.

There is probably no less efficient, more time consuming way to make ice cubes. Maybe if you tried 3D printing with ice filament. That might be worse.Why, then, did I award this 5 stars?Because this isn't about efficiency (not cost, nor otherwise). And it's not about saving time. It's about making round ice in the coolest way possible. Forget the pun. This is about having a giant chunk of aluminum to melt ice chunks into ice balls. If you need to justify the cost, you're in the wrong place, so don't bother.Now, why did I get it? I think it's the coolest looking thing EVER. I want to use it as a movie prop for making indie films. Picture it...the villain slowly opens this aluminum cylinder to expose the glowing, radiating, humming nuclear core inside. This is PERFECT as a movie prop, or even as a "What on earth is THAT?" shelf decorator item. You don't HAVE to use this to make balls of ice to appreciate it, believe me. I appreciate it profoundly, and I'll probably never make a ball of ice with it in my life.Literally, one of the coolest things I own. And we're back at puns again. I'm sorry, I'm a bad man. But has I said, there's a lot to appreciate here. Personally, I like the way it LOOKS. I'm going to display it on a shelf, and pray people ask me about it. Because what an interesting thing this actually is.I recommend this, not only to make round balls of ice. Yeah, whatever. I recommend this to people who, like me, just like INTERESTING THINGS. I must have sat and played with this and looked at it for almost an hour today. It's wonderfully crafted, very accurate and true. Life is, itself, very interesting. We should fill our interesting lives with interesting things like this. You don't justify it. You buy it. And welcome to the world of interesting things.

Advertised as manking clear ice balls. They do not!

I liked the ease of use and size of ice balls.

while the maker works great and fast, it does not make a "round" ice cube. we have the large square ice trays but it requires something larger, which I cannot find, to make the spere