Crushing Ice Is a Smash
Need to crush some ice and relieve some stress at the same time?
Fill the silicone Icesac bag with ice cubes, tighten the drawstring, and whack away at the kitchen counter until they are crushed. When not in use, the sleek bags can do double duty as a modern flower vase.
$42 at Charles and Marie.
Posted by Josh Friedland on Feb 9, 2010
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Jul 15, 2010 5:30:33 AM
Posted By: Rain
Interesting!I could never guess that it can be also used as a flower vase. As it is sung in the song I Can Tranform y Chris Brown (it can be easily found at music search http://www.mp3hunting.com ).But it looks cool. Iwonder what material it is made of.
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a modern flower vase?Um,i do not know if i will use it like that but it surely is a good ice crusher.
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Oct 15, 2010 1:22:19 PM
Posted By: ferrari
I don't really mean that in a good way. I received my Deni 6000 from Amazon and unpacked it right away. I've been using a Metrokane Ice Crusher for over a year now which makes the perfectly sized crushed ice for chomping on(not too bad for drinks, either) but the Metrokane is a hand-crank style and since I'm crushing ice about ten times a day... I thought I'd look for an electric one.
First off, the Deni 6000 makes ice chips about the size of a grain of rice- shaved ice style. This is an excellent product if you are looking to make sno cones or tropical adult drinks. I do not find the highly uniform and tiny size of the ice bits very good for crunching and munching, however. I don't think I'd like this style ice for my amaretto or whiskey sours, either- the ice melts too much when you add anything to it. But, that is really a matter of taste in function.
My two biggest issues- which prompted me to return the product- it has a funky little ice chute that takes one ice cube at a time and when I released the cube into the chute a major piece of fractured ice came flying back out at me and almost put out my eye. Now, I know I have two eyes, so no big deal, but I figure with my frequency of use I'd be inclined to put out the other eye in no time. The second issue I mebntioned is that while the rest of that ice cube was dancing around in there, the whole little machine was trying to rumba off my countertop. I literally had to hold the thing down and it still put up quite a struggle.
It was a little loud, but hey, no one even notices in my house.
The ice that came out was very nice for a sno cone and I like sno cones, so I give it a 3 star rating. Also because it was very easy to use- no assembly required, plug and play.
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Simply beautiful!
1. Pour the glass crushed ice into the Heritage bowl.
2. Place the pillar candles in the crushed ice, making sure they are standing straight.
3.Put some flowers in the vase.
4. Use wire cutters to cut blooms off the flower stem and arrange blooms on top of the crushed ice and the remainder around the table, if you like.
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I think $42 is reasonable price, I had bought an Ice Crusher 2 years before from Amazon that time I have pay $92, if it is compared to that price then it is really awesome but I'm not sure about the functionality and reliability as well.
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