Ingredient capacity, cycle time, and what needs washing after · review
A countertop ice-ball maker producing 2.1-inch clear spheres in about thirty minutes, up to forty-eight a day.
What it comes down to Not a cocktail machine: a countertop ice-ball maker producing 2.1-inch clear spheres in about thirty minutes. It publishes a comparative melt figure — 18 per cent against 26 — which nothing else on this shelf attempts.
Six machines here mix drinks. One shakes them. This one makes the ice, and the slushie machine next to it makes frozen ones.
For a home bar that is a reasonable thing to own. It is not an alternative to any of the others.
Eighteen per cent against twenty-six. A maker publishing a number for how much of its own product melts away, and naming the competing design it beats, is making a claim that can be checked.
Nothing else on this shelf offers a comparison with anything.
Read on the day this page was built: $250 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-04. The live price is at the top of the page.
Same shelf, nearest price — what the same spend buys instead.
| Type | Ice-ball maker — not a cocktail machine |
|---|---|
| Sphere size | 2.1 in, with an engineered center hole |
| Time per sphere | About 30 minutes |
| Output | Up to 48 spheres a day; stores 12 at a time |
| Water tank | 0.21 gal, filled from the top; bottom drain |
| Insulation | Non-transparent double layer — melt cut to 18% against 26% in clear-window models |
| Cleaning | One-touch auto-cleaning cycle; interior and basket wipe clean |
| Clarity | Clear, dense ice, stated to melt more slowly |
| Warranty | Not stated by the maker |
| Amazon reference | B0FPFZTWVZ |
| EAN | 0850079023123 |
Surface area. A sphere has less of it than cubes of the same volume, so it dilutes a drink more slowly, and clear ice is dense ice. The listing adds a center hole, which it says makes the ice clearer still. For spirits served neat over ice, that is the whole argument.
Melt loss, comparing this machine’s opaque double-layer insulation with clear-window models that let light and heat in. Publishing a figure against a competing design is rare on this shelf, and it is the right kind of claim because it can be argued with.
No. It is on this shelf because it belongs in a home bar, not because it mixes anything. For drinks, the capsule and pump machines here do that, and none of them makes ice.
A whisky drinker or a cocktail bar at home where a clear 2.1-inch sphere is the point
Details checked on October 4, 2026.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for bar and wine appliances and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
Capsule machine, 1 L spirit bottles, 1.5 L water reservoir, 60 cocktails per refill, under 30 s a drink, 18 oz shaker included
A capsule cocktail machine with one-liter spirit bottles and a 1.5-liter reservoir, good for sixty cocktails before refilling.
Best for: Hosting, where sixty drinks between refills and a thirty-second pour matter more than pouring from your own recipes
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A home slushie machine with an 88-ounce tank, six presets and eight temperature levels, ready in about fifteen minutes.
Best for: Frozen margaritas and daiquiris at home, where the mixing is yours and the freezing is the hard part
≈ $200
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≈ $300
