Mr Frosty, the popular 90’s DIY crunched ice-making toy, is becoming popular again so we thought we’d put him to the test and see if he really can make delicious frozen treats!
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What Comes With Mr Frosty?
There’s a nice lack of plastic packaging inside the Mr frosty box with items held in place by card inserts.
Inside the Mr Frosty box you’ll find
- Retro Mr Frosty ice cruncher
- 3x ice lolly moulds
- 2x red Mr Frosty Spoons
- 1x penguin juice dispenser1
- 1x shaped ice tray mould
- 2 Mr Frosty bowls
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How To Use Mr Frosty To Make Frosty Treats
To crunch the ice, you need to put ice (that’s been allowed to sit at room temperature for around 30 minutes) into the top of his head. Then push down Mr Frosty’s hat onto the ice and whist still applying pressure, turn the handle.
When you turn the handle a metal grater at the bottom of Mr Cruncy’s core turns around grates the ice dropping it into the blue draw below.
Once you have a draw full of ice you can put it in one of the blue bowls, that comes in the box. And depending on the flavour of your crunched ice add an extra flavoured squeeze from the penguin juice dispenser.
What Juice To Use With Mr Frosty?
We found using water-heavy liquids (especially tap water or squash-flavoured water) was difficult to crunch in Mr Frosty because it was too hard. And depending on the temperature of the room, anything we did manage to crush melted a fair bit, before we had enough crunched ice to pour into the bowl. On the other hand blended canned fruit, fresh fruit, yoghurt and thick smoothies worked well and was pretty easy to put through Mr Frosty and made fabulous deserts.
Making Shaped Ice Cubes And Ice Lollys
The shaped ice cube tray was easy to use. It’s nice and solid so easy to put in the freezer and the shapes are shallow meaning it freezes quite quickly. The downside of the rigidity, is the iced shapes don’t pop out easily. So you need to let it rest or run a little warm water over the back of it to loosed the iced shapes.
The lolly moulds are super easy to use. Just fill each mould with your favourite ice filling (juice, blended fruit, yoghurt etc), add the plastic lolly stick and freeze. A few minutes at room temperature and they easily pop out!
How Well Does Mr Frosty Work?
Mr Frosty works amazingly well using fruit-heavy/smoothie/yoghurt-based liquids. If you use water-heavy liquids it is hard to get crushed ice, even if you leave it out for the recommended 30 minutes at room temperature, to semi-melt and soften it.
We blended a tin of mango slices and a can of ginger ale which was delicious. And not only did it taste amazing but the high pulp content made it super easy to crunch up without leaving it to thaw!
We then used colourful ice cubes to decorate
Be aware that Mr Frosty doesn’t have suckers on the base of him which means it can be difficult to turn the handle, press down on his blue hat plunger and stop him moving about!
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Top Tips For Using Mr Frosty
- Plan in advance as you need to allow time to freeze your liquids. So if using with very young kids spread it over a couple of days or do the freezing in the morning so you can crunch and eat late after noon
- Freeze thick yoghurt based or pulp heavy liquids to crunch and save the water heavy liquids for making cute ice cubes… it’s still great fun! Blended tins of fruit or even fresh fruit, yoghurt and thick smoothies are perfect.
- If you do want to use plain ice, so you can flavour with a syrup from the penguin squeezy bottle, crush the ice cubes into smaller pieces first (grip seal bag and rolling pin). It just makes the process quicker and is still fun for kids.
- Use the ice mould tray to make colourful standard ice cubes to decorate.
- It’s a hands on sticky affair so use on a wipeable surface
- You really need two pairs of hands as Mr Frosty moves because of the lack of suckers on his base.
