Any ktards tried stainless steel “ice” cubes to replace actual ice cubes?

Theoretical advantage:
- the SS cubes won’t dilute your drink

Available versions:
- stainless steel 304 (normal food safe standard)
- stainless steel 316 (medical grade standard, won’t corrode under acidic drink like Coca Cola etc)

After some use u will get steel taste in ur drinks as well

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oh lul another brainless invention

I used to using SS thermal insulated cup for cold drinks, but then I learned that SS304 actually will corrode under acidic carbonated drink, so now I only use ceramic mug for carbonated acidic drink.

Only SS316 grade will resist corrosion from acidic drink/food, so now I also wonder if all the market stainless steel cookwares are really safe if prolong use with acidic or spicy food, maybe they will leak out small traces of metal and leads to heavy metal poisoning?

I think whisky drinker use it

Wouldn't this be a very stupid invention lol. Steel is much more heavy and doesnt have as much specific heat capacity as water so you need more to cool same amount of water

Got some, and they're quite useless tbh. From experience, felt like need 4 of them to give the same cooling effect of 1 water ice cube

oh no, i tot 1 steel cube has more cooling effect than 1 ice cube hence the invention. this is seriously pathetic.

why wanna risk putting more steel into body than necessary when cookware already exposing us enough of unwanted metal.

straight to the trash bin yo

It’s not solid SS cube, SS is the cube casing, inside got liquid like ethanol or something.

iron not same with steel

If u drink expensive drink, u wouldn’t want ice cubes to dilute your drink…

problem solved

So your user conclusion is it’s just another online shopping trash?

Useless la. Ice cubes has much greater thermal capacity. Better cooling potential. Almost 9 times better. People underestimate how much heat removed during a phase change.

You’ll need lots of ice doing so, normal household how many ppl dedicate their fridge to making so much ice?

Actual usage experience?

More or less trash, unless u using it for whisky.

For me, i prefer 1 water cube on my whisky anyway. Neat too powderful for me lol

Naah i don't get to waste money on shitty stuff when i can just let gemini shows me the math.

Chinese invention is always the best

If only use the SS cubes to keep the drink stay chilled longer, good enough?

If you look at bar supplies, there are also literal rocks used for cooling drinks, whiskey stone is one of the name you can search for, no I haven't tried since feel like useless for me

This post has been edited by Quantum Geist: Dec 14 2025, 08:31 PM

Use double walled, insulated glass/tumblr. Even without a cover,it will stay cool longer than regular glass plus these cubes.

Edit for clarity

This post has been edited by cursetheroad01: Dec 14 2025, 08:40 PM

Ice salt bath if you don't want your drink dilute by ice cube , since ice and salt is widely available and they are considering very cheap, if you don't mind use rain water also ok since you only use it for ice salt bath and not consuming the rain water ice directly.

I guess can la, just that it won't stay chill longer compared to water cube. It's basically a trade-off between chilled longer but diluted and non diluted but chilled shorter

Buy SS316 for real food grade stainless steel.

lejen use this

I read it on reddit this thing is biggest scam. Lol.

Physic wise this little metal thing can never be more efficient than ice cube.

uselsss and another thing to wash

i scared accidentally swallow lol
can buy them from daiso

that statement is false, it has higher resistance not immune