I have an ice maker that produces "long" cubes. These cubes are a different shape and thickness than ice made in a tray. Will this ice work?
861858
Don't buy this ice maker it has plastic parts inside that break easily and they don't have replacement parts. That makes this ice maker worthless.
861859
This crusher is a professional model and anything you can get down the chute will be crushed. If the cubes are too big they will hang up at the feed screw and not make it through. We have used one of these for over a year and if you feed it correctly it will crush ice as advertised.
861860
My ice maker produces the half moon shaped cubes. I drop them in flat side facing me and vertically and it works great! Every now and then I have to jiggle it if they get stuck (no big deal) I love this machine!!
1978750
the cubes are not cubes at all but are shaped like a half moon crescent. This allows them to slide out of the tray with almost no effort. They are about 1/2 inch thick about 2 inches wide and 1 inch tall, (best guess as I don't have one on hand and is close to the metric units given in previous answer). This is an odd shape if you want cubes but makes a lot of sense in terms of freezing quickly and getting them out of the tray. This is hands down the best ice crescent (cube) tray I have ever used. These are particularly nice in an RV where you can fill the trays and hit the road with no worries of spills, and have ice ready for your end of day repast.
366854
I have never tried, only used this with melted chocolate...it is a medium sturdy plastic so I think you maybe able to do it but keep in mind your ice cube will be a half mold of the figure. sorry not a huge help.
1637795
I haven't used the tray for making ice, but imagine that it would work great! I plan to use it for sauces and ice when I'm done with baby food. I highly recommend this tray - the frozen items pop out fairly easily and it cleans up really well!
751363
We were very unhappy with this product. It stopped working in under 6 months. The only hting working is the hot water! I did not know it could make different size ice cubes! Good luck! I hope yours keeps working!
1565620
No I don't think it will work well. Basically this item works by filling it with some water and then displacing the water up the sides with the inner bucket. Get the OXO no spill covered ice cube tray instead.
490412
The top part opens up - the limitation will be size of the hole where you add water. It should accomodate a normal size ice cube from an automatic ice maker from most freezers. But bigger than that may not fit through hole.
642012
I'm going to say no. The lid covers the ice yes, but it is not a tight seal. If you place this tray at an angle (depending how steep it is) the water will spill out.
898476
The tray size is the same as any ice cube tray just not as deep. Breaking them in half??? Haven't thought to try that.
989990
Most likely, the mouth is pretty big. I'd say you can put in ice from your standard ice tray length-wise fairly easily, but blockier, more cube-like ice, maybe not.
1727043
Actually machine works for both type of ice.. What you need to do is push the little harder when you use bigger ice.. Hope this would help
1783527
I have not used it with ice cubes. I can't imagine that ice cubes would work as well as the ice forms it comes with. The ice would most likely by more course.
1727041
It can use that type of ice, I've used ice cubes from my refrigerator and it worked just as good as with the molded ice. Although, since it's several different pieces the top part will move around a lot so make sure you press down and hold it in place and it won't move much. Other than that little detail, "ice cubes" will work.
1184193
The ice ball mold I use makes ice that's too big to fit through the mouth. You'd need a small diameter for it to work (1.75" as noted below).
529942
Pieces of ice that are smaller than approx. 1/2" in width will fit through the opening. the top is wide enough, again, it works on my ice maker. some ice makers might make really large ice chunks, but I would bet the standard ice machine works just fine. hope this helps!!! mehmet
485570
An ice maker would be better than ice trays. You'll get frustrated with all of the emptying of trays and you won't get enough ice. I have two suggestions for you. An easy one is to just buy bags of ice. A large bag of ice will fill this up 2-3 times. The other suggestion is to augment with larger hunks of ice. If you want your ice to last longer, you can use some small plastic food storage containers and freeze water in them to make some bigger chunks. You can only use one or two bigger chunks and fill in with cubes, but the bigger chunks will keep everything colder longer.
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Yes, this mold could be used to make ice for a large punch bowl. The end product can be held with two hands. Hopefully that gives you some idea how big it is (approx. 4"Lx2"W)