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  • Stainless steel ice cubes
  • What you get: 2 steel cubes
  • What you get: 8 steel cubes plus free tongs
  • What you get: 12 steel cubes plus free tongs
  • Steel cubes going into a glass of rosé, no dilution
  • Food-grade 304 steel, 2.6 cm solid cube
  • Freeze, pour the wine, lower in two or three cubes
  • Free silicone-tipped tongs with the 8 and 12 sets
  • Chilling a glass poured from boxed wine
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★★★★★4.7 · 9 reviews

Stainless Steel Ice Cubes

Stainless Steel Ice Cubes

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You can't put ice in wine, so the wine goes warm.

Twenty minutes on a sunny table and the glass you poured cold tastes broad, flat and faintly sweet.

Why it works

Cold wine, nothing watered down

Frozen steel takes a few degrees off a poured glass and holds an already-cold glass cold for roughly fifteen to twenty minutes. It is a chiller, not a fridge, so it will not turn a room-temperature glass ice-cold. What it will never do is melt into your wine, so the last mouthful tastes like the first.

Solid 304 steel, all the way through

Each cube is one piece of food-grade 304 stainless steel, the grade used in professional kitchens and food processing, machined square at 2.6 cm and polished to a mirror. Nothing is plated, hollow or plastic-cored, so there is no coating to wear off and no flavour of its own. Steel at this grade does not rust, pit, chip or hold freezer smells. We back the steel with a lifetime guarantee: if a cube ever rusts, pits or splits, we replace it.

For the box that will not fit the fridge

Three litres of boxed white or rosé takes a whole shelf, so most boxes end up on the counter at room temperature. Chill the glass instead of the box and the problem disappears. Pour, lower in two or three cubes, and the fridge stays yours.

Silicone-tipped tongs, free with 8 and 12

The 8 and 12 sets include silicone-tipped tongs at no extra cost, so you are not prising frozen steel out of a tray with warm fingers. The soft tips grip without scratching the polish and let you lower a cube into a thin glass instead of dropping it. The 2-cube set is cubes only.

The glass you can leave standing

You pour the first glass properly cold. Then someone starts a story, the plates come out, the sun crosses the table, and twenty minutes later the glass in your hand is the temperature of the afternoon. Warm white goes broad and slightly sweet, rosé loses its edge, sparkling turns soft. Ice would fix the temperature and ruin everything else, because the last third of the glass turns into water. Two frozen steel cubes do the cold part and nothing else. Lower them in and the glass holds roughly where you poured it, quietly, without a drop added to it. The second half tastes like the first.

The box does not fit. The glass does.

Boxed wine has quietly gotten good, but three litres of it will not share a shelf with the milk, the leftovers and whatever has been at the back since last week. So the box lives on the counter at room temperature, and every glass comes out lukewarm. Chill the glass instead of the box: pour, drop in two or three cubes straight from the freezer, and the wine comes down a few degrees where you are actually drinking it. The fridge stays free for food, and the box stays wherever it happens to fit. The same trick works for the second bottle you had nowhere to put.

Yes, it is a lot for eight pieces of metal

So here is exactly what the metal is. Each cube is solid food-grade 304 stainless steel, the grade specified in professional kitchens and food processing equipment because it does not corrode, does not leach and does not carry the taste of the last thing it touched. Cut square at 2.6 cm and polished to a mirror, not plated, not hollow, no gel core. That matters for one plain reason: there is nothing here to consume. No refills, no filters, no replacements, no coating to wear off and nothing in the steel that gets worse with use. Think of what a bag of ice costs where you shop, then count the weeks you expect to go on drinking wine. A bag of ice is a cost that repeats every week forever. This is a cost that happens once.

Food-grade 304Mirror polishedSolid, not platedNothing to refill

Ice, the fridge, or steel

What each one actually does to the glass in front of you.

Ice cubesFridge onlyOur steel cubes
Chills the wine already in your glass✓–✓
Last mouthful tastes like the first–✓✓
Gives the deepest, coldest chill✓––
Solves boxed wine without watering the glass down––✓
Bought once instead of bought again every week–✓✓
Does not rust, chip or take on freezer smells––✓

Questions people ask

Honestly, why are these so expensive?

Fair question. You are paying for solid food-grade 304 stainless steel, machined square and mirror polished, rather than a plated shell or a plastic case with gel inside. The material is the reason there is nothing to refill, recoat or replace. Ice is a small cost that repeats every week for as long as you keep drinking wine. This one is paid once, so the sensible way to judge it is per year rather than per purchase. If the number still does not sit right, the 30-day return is there. And the steel carries a lifetime guarantee, so the only thing you are ever buying again is the wine.

How cold do they actually make the wine?

They are a chiller, not a fridge. Dropped into a glass that is already cold, they hold that cold in place. Dropped into a room-temperature pour, they take a few degrees off and make it noticeably better, but they will not turn a warm glass ice-cold. If you want it properly chilled, start with chilled wine and use these to keep it there.

How long does the cold last?

Roughly fifteen to twenty minutes per glass before the temperature starts creeping back, depending on how warm the room is and how many cubes you use. That is usually about the life of a glass. For a long evening outdoors, swap in a fresh pair from the freezer for the next pour.

How long do they need in the freezer?

At least four hours, and overnight is better. Between glasses they need a couple of hours to recover, which is the main reason most people take the 8 or 12 set: one batch is in use while the other is getting cold again. They live in the lidded tray that comes with every set.

How many do I use per glass?

Two or three in a standard glass of white or rosé, three or four in a wider bowl. With sparkling, lower them gently so you keep the bubbles. More metal means more cooling, but leave room for the wine to move and for you to drink comfortably.

Which set should I buy?

The 2-cube set is for one person, one glass at a time, and it comes as cubes only with no tongs. The 8-cube set is the one most people choose: enough for a couple of glasses each while the rest chill again, and the tongs are included free. The 12-cube set is for hosting, when several glasses are going at once.

Are they safe in thin glasses?

With a little care, yes. Steel is heavier than ice and it slides, so lower them in with the tongs rather than dropping them, and tilt the glass slowly on the last mouthful instead of tipping it back. Treat a thin glass the way you would treat it anyway and there is no issue.

How do I clean them?

Hand rinse in warm water with a drop of washing-up liquid, dry them, and put them straight back in the tray and into the freezer. Not the dishwasher, where the detergent is harsh on a mirror polish. There is no coating to strip and 304 steel does not stain or hold smells, so a rinse is genuinely all it needs.

What does the lifetime guarantee cover?

The steel itself, for as long as you own the set. 304 stainless does not corrode or wear out, so this is a promise about the material rather than a hopeful marketing line. If a cube ever rusts, pits or splits, send us a photo and we replace it. Ordinary marks from use are not failures, and the guarantee covers the cubes rather than the tray or the tongs.

LIFETIME GUARANTEE

If a cube ever rusts, pits or splits, we replace it.

Solid 304 stainless steel does not corrode, pit or wear out, and we stand behind that for as long as you own the set. Every order ships free and tracked, with 30 days to change your mind. If a cube ever fails, send us a photo and we replace it.

  • Lifetime guarantee
  • Free shipping
  • 30-day returns
  • Food-grade 304 steel

What people say after a warm afternoon

4.7 out of 5 · 9 reviews · we publish the critical ones too

★★★★★

It won't rescue a warm box, and I'd assumed it would

Our box of pinot grigio lives by the kettle because there is nowhere else for it to go, and I'd talked myself into believing these would fix that completely. They don't. A pour that's been standing at kitchen temperature comes down a few degrees and no further, so it's pleasant rather than cold, and after one glass they want hours back in the freezer before you can do it again. That's the three stars. I read the returns policy and then kept them anyway, because when the wine is already cold and these are just holding it there, they're genuinely good and nothing ends up watery.

Iris D.
★★★★★

Bought them for the patio

We barbecue most weekends and I'm the one standing at the grill, so my glass sits on the side table for ten minutes at a stretch while I'm turning things over. The sauvignon blanc came back to me lukewarm every single time. Now I drop three in before I light it and it's still cold enough to want when I finally sit down. Got the 8 set, so the tongs came with it, and I use them every time because straight out of the freezer those things will stick to your fingers.

Marcus T.
★★★★★

Start bigger than I did

Fair warning if you're eyeing up the 2 cube set the way I did. They do work, and a glass of chilled white holds for a good quarter of an hour out on the balcony, but then you want a second glass and your two cubes are lukewarm and need a couple of hours in the freezer before they're any use again. I bought the 12 after a fortnight so I could rotate them. The other thing nobody warned me about is that steel slides much faster than ice, so tilt the glass slowly on the last mouthful or they'll come at your teeth. Still glad I've got them, I just started too small.

Priya N.
★★★★★

Second floor, afternoon sun

Small balcony that gets the sun from about two onwards. Two cubes in a glass of prosecco and I actually reach the bottom of it cold, which never used to happen out there.

Tom H.
★★★★★

The box won, so I stopped fighting it

Our fridge has exactly one shelf tall enough for a 3 litre box, and that shelf is where the actual food lives. So the box sits on the worktop like a small piece of furniture and every glass out of it is whatever temperature the kitchen happens to be. These fix it from the other end. Two cubes in the glass, pour the sauvignon blanc over them, and I stop thinking about the temperature. It's not fridge cold and I wasn't expecting it to be. Just drinkable instead of lukewarm.

Greg H.
★★★★★

Mum uses them every Sunday

Got her the 8 set for her birthday because she's impossible to buy for, and she's sent me a photo of her glass in the garden most Sundays since. She uses the tongs more than I expected. Her verdict was that the pinot grigio now lasts as long as she wants it to, which from her counts as a rave.

Ellie M.
★★★★★

Twelve was the right call for us

We're usually eight or nine on the terrace through the summer and two cubes a glass adds up faster than you'd think, so I went for the 12. They want a proper night in the freezer, not an afternoon, and they don't come back round straight away once a glass has been finished. I found that out mid-party with half a tray still lukewarm. The tray lives in the freezer permanently now and I forget about it until someone opens the cava.

Helen R.
★★★★★

I'm a slow drinker

I take about an hour over one glass of sauvignon blanc, longer if I'm reading. Ordinary ice was never on the cards because by the fourth mouthful you're drinking cold squash, and that was always my real complaint, not the temperature. Two of these hold the glass properly cool for fifteen or twenty minutes and then yes, it creeps back up. The last mouthful still tastes like what I poured though. I'd take slightly less cold over watery every time.

Naomi K.
★★★★★

Coming up on seven months in the freezer drawer

Bought the 8 set back in February for rosé on the front step and they've lived in the freezer ever since. No rust. A couple of scuffs where they've knocked against each other and nothing else, and they haven't taken on a freezer smell, which was the thing I half expected. I rinse them under the tap and dry them on a tea towel, ten seconds. The novelty wore off around week three and now they're just the normal way I have a glass of rosé.