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Ice Genie Review: As Seen on TV Ice Cube Maker - YouTube
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This is the Ice Genie.
It's advertised as a sort of
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As Seen on TV next gen ice cube maker,
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but does it really work?
That's what I'm gonna find out
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in this review.
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(techno music)
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All right. Here's how the Ice Genie
is supposed to work.
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You've got two chambers here.
You're gonna pour
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the water in the outer chamber.
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This prevents the ice from forming inside,
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and then when it's done,
you pull this out,
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squeeze the sides, and you have ice.
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They did point out with this cool tip
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that the chamber's gonna
be difficult to remove
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in the first times, so let's try that.
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Oh, they're not kidding.
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(grunts)
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Oh, man. They're not kidding.
This thing is
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stuck in here.
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I'd love to use this if I could open it.
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They're saying to twist it
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counterclockwise.
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Counterclockwise.
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I'm getting some,
I'm getting some motion here.
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I think I'm making progress.
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I've got a about a quarter of an inch.
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Ah, there goes! There it goes!
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Okay. So, as you can see,
the ice cubes will be formed
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in there.
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And, then once you're done,
you just squeeze it
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and they're supposed to all come out
in the chamber.
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First, I'm gonna wash this, 'cause it
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kind of has a plasticky smell to it.
I'm gonna wash
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this out first, and then try it.
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All right. Time for our first test here.
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You're supposed to insert
the chamber into the unit itself,
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and ensure that there's a good seal.
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They say to feel around the bottom,
make sure there's no gaps.
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I don't feel any.
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(grunts)
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That feels good.
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Now, we're supposed to pour water in here
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to fill along the edges
where the ice cubes are gonna be.
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I'm going to use filtered water.
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That didn't seem like a lot of water.
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All right. I fill it all the way up.
Now, I have to just put
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the lid on it and put it in the freezer.
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Okay. Lid's not,
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not just snapping on in easily. It's,
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I'm gonna have to finagle
this lid on here.
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I think that's almost it. No?
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Okay. I got the lid on.
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Now, I'm gonna gently put it
in the freezer.
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I've got in the freezer
next to some standard ice cube trays.
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Come back in a few hours
and see how they compare.
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All right. Here is the Ice Genie.
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I put this in there yesterday,
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so there should be no problem
seeing these ice cubes
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coming out. Let's check this out.
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According to these instructions,
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the first thing you're supposed
to do is kind of
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squeeze all the sides together,
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pull out the chamber,
and then squeeze the sides
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together again.
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Let's try it.
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I'm squeezing pretty hard.
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(crackling sound)
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(grunts)
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(crackling sound)
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A lot of nice crackling sounds.
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(crackling sound)
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Well, what's, what I'm noticing
is that there's no water
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in there, so that's good.
I was worried that it might
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leak out in the center.
It did not. Good thing.
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(crackling sound)
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(grunts)
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(crackling sound)
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I'm firmly squeezing.
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(grunts)
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Oh, this came out easier that-
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I wouldn't say easy, but easier.
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Now, here's what we got in there.
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Kind of cool.
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Now, what I'm supposed to do
is squeeze it again.
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(crackling sound)
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I have ice flying everywhere.
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(crackling sound)
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Woah! One just flew out there.
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(crackling sound)
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So, let's see how much
this actually made.
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It's kind of hard to tell
when it's in there.
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(crackling sound)
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All right. That's not really a lot of ice.
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Not really.
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(crackling sound)
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What I'm gonna do now
is make a second batch.
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What we're supposed to do
is put the chamber
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back in there.
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(crackling sound)
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Kind of,
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(crackling sound)
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kind of jostle it around
so it goes all the way down.
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All right. I'm feeling
around the bottom which isn't quite
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as sanitary when I put my hand in there,
but I don't feel
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any kind of gap in the bottom,
so I think I can go
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for round two. Let's do that.
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All right. I've got this full of water nor
as you can see
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from the sides.
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And, I have my existing batch
already in there.
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We're gonna go for batch number two!
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This lid doesn't seem to want
to stay on too well,
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but I guess that's good enough.
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Batch number two.
I'll check this in a few hours.
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All right. Let's see how batch
number two came out.
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Okay. I'm not gonna dump
this one out because last time
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I think I lost a little bit
of volume by pouring
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on the plate, so I'm gonna do
a third batch
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without even dumping it out.
I'm just gonna
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add to the chamber, and keep going.
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This, this can supposedly
hold three batches.
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I'm gonna do a total three batches.
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(crackling sound)
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You can head the crunching.
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(crackling sound)
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Just a lot of ice crunch.
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It seems like a lot of work.
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(crackling sound)
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And, my hands are getting frozen
by holding this.
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And, it's stuck.
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I actually can't get this off.
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(crackling sound)
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I'm gonna squeeze harder.
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That's right.
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(grunts)
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There it goes. Okay. Perfect.
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Oh, wow. Look at this.
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It created like a-
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The ice kind of melted
and created like it's,
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it's own bottom.
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(crackling sound)
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Once again, we have a pretty
paltry amount of ice in there
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from other batch.
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(crackling sound)
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And, I have to get that in there somehow.
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(crackling sound)
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All right. We're gonna go
for batch number three.
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This time I'm gonna measure
how much water goes in there,
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because I don't think it's very much.
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(crackling sound)
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And, you're supposed to stick
your hand into the ice
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through the ice
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to see if there's a seal on the bottom
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which again, I don't think
that's very sanitary
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but I'm gonna do it anyways.
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I'll take this big chunk out.
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(crackling sound)
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Okay. I think there's a good seal
on the bottom.
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But, we're gonna go
for batch number three.
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I'm gonna measure the water
on this time to see
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how much it actually holds.
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I've got 16oz of water here.
I'm gonna put it in there
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and see how much actually
goes into the Ice Genie.
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It doesn't seem like it's very much to me.
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Okay.
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That held.
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That's about 6oz of water.
That's not a lot of ice.
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All right. This is the third batch.
We're gonna compare this
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to the three ice cube trays
when it's done and see
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how much that makes compared
to traditional ice cub trays.
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Not a fan of the lid.
It keeps popping off, but we'll,
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we'll deal with that later.
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Ice Genie next to the Hot Pockets,
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and the other ice cube trays.
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Come back in a few hours
and for the final comparison.
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All right. I've got the third
and final batch
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with the Ice Genie,
and I've got three standard
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ice cube trays.
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Now, I don't know if you'd consider
this one or three batches.
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Just for the benefit
of the doubt, I'm gonna say
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this is three batches.
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But, normally I'd do this all
at the same time.
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But, so this is three batches.
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And, this is three batches.
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Let's compare how much it actually made.
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(crackling sound)
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Once again, you got to squeeze
the edges of this.
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(crackling sound)
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And, then hope you can get it out.
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(crackling sound)
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I'm losing this battle now.
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(crackling sound)
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This is one problem with it
is it seems to take
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a lot of effort just to get
this chamber out.
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I mean ice cube trays are kind
of a pain to get the ice up,
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but this is more of a pain.
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(crackling sound)
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Now, there we go.
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Once again, a kind of bottom
has formed here
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which I understand the first time
because I dumped the ice out
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and maybe started melting a little bit.
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The second time, I didn't do that
and this, it's still kind
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of melted at the bottom which is kind of
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not really desirable,
'cause then you have,
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you have like a big one of these.
You don't want that.
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Let's get this third batch out of here.
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(crackling sound)
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This part's pretty cool. I do like this.
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(crackling sound)
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This is what they show
in the commercial.
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This is the cool part.
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(crackling sound)
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Let's dump it on a plate
and see what we got.
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(crackling sound)
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All right. There we go.
That is three- Woah!
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That's three batches.
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Now, three ice cube trays.
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(crackling sound)
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Well, that was quick.
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(cracking sound)
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(crackling sound)
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(crackling sound)
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A little easier.
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Three Ice Genie batches.
Three ice cube trays batches.
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Yeah, the Ice Genie has a couple of these
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which I'm not sure you really want,
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but that's what we got.
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Here's the ice cube size.
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All right. What I'm gonna do now
is measure one of these
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ice cube trays.
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Keep in mind, this took 6oz
of water for one batch.
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Let me see how the standard
ice cube tray holds.
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(pouring water sounds)
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All right. So, this is about
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10oz per ice cube tray
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versus 6oz for the Ice Genie.
And, you can do
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multiple ice cube trays at once.
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This, you can only do one at a time.
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Here are my final observations
about the Ice Genie.
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Number one, it takes kind of a lot
of effort to break
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the ice apart so you can
remove this chamber.
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I think someone who has problems
with strength in their hands
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might struggle with this.
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Number two, you only can put
6oz of water in here at a time.
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So, I mean as compared
to an ice cube tray
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which is about 10oz in this case,
it seems like you're
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not really producing a lot of ice.
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I think it works like advertised.
The water did not leak
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into the center chamber
which that's a good thing.
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It has a lid which I do like
to keep all that freezer
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nastiness off your ice,
but we're only getting 6oz at a time
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and you have to struggle
to put the lid on.
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I don't know. Kind of defeats the purpose.
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So in the end, I'm not a big fan
of the Ice Genie.
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Have you used this product
or something like it?
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Tell me what you think
in the comments below,
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and please subscribe
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from me, James White
with Freakin' Reviews.
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