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Neat Ice Kit (Double Mold) - Clear Ice Cube Mold awls, chisels or planes

1 report to CPSC, the latest made Dec 19, 2015. A report isn’t a recall.

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From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.

  • 1report to CPSC
  • Dec 19, 2015the latest report was made
  • Dec 19, 2015the earliest
  • 0with the company’s comments
Brand
Neat Ice Kit (Double Mold) - Clear Ice Cube Mold
Maker
Studio Neat, LLCMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product
Awls, chisels or planesCPSC’s product type: Awls, Chisels or Planes (code 870), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Tools & Hardware

By month

1 report from January 2015 to December 2015; the most in December 2015, 1.
The numbers, as a table
Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
MonthReports
December 20151

How badly anyone was hurt

  • No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury

As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.

The reports, as CPSC published them

Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.

Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.

Source:

CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.

  1. No one hurt

    Made Dec 19, 2015, sent to the company Feb 10, 2016, published by CPSC Mar 3, 2016

    The product, in the report: I described the kit before. But the steel chisel is 2” wide and 6” long. It sharpened to a very thin, very sharp edge. The thinness of the sharp edge, and possibly the weak steel, is probably key to the sharpened edge breaking, resulting in chips of steel becoming mixed with ice intended to be placed in a beverage. I will attach a photo of the edge of the chisel. (Not a great photo -- I don’t have a macro lens.)

    I purchased a “Neat Ice Kit (Double Mold) - Clear Ice Cube Mold” from Amazon.com for making clear ice. The way it works is that you freeze water in this special insulated mold. It makes a block of ice approximately 2” x 2” x 4”; it has clear ice in one end and cloudy ice in the other. The kit provides a steel chisel with a wooden mallet, intended to be used to break the block of ice into smaller pieces that would fit in a drinking glass.

    After using the chisel as directed to break off the clear portion of the ice (for the first time), I saw a very small dark object on the ice. Thinking my recently cleaned cutting board may have had something on it, I brushed it away with the many little pieces of ice. Then I noticed that there were seven new very small chipped areas on the sharp edge of the chisel. It looked like I had been cutting granite, instead of frozen water. Small pieces of steel had broken off and I only saw one of them. The other six pieces apparently got mixed in with the ice.

    I don’t want a product that inserts pieces of a steel chisel into the ice I put in my drinks. I will ask for a refund.

    I’m not a doctor or scientist, and can’t say for sure what the effects are of drinking a liquid with chips of steel chisel, but common sense tells me that this product, or at least the chisel, should be removed from the market until the problems can be solved. I should probably be writing the Consumer Products Safety Commission too.

    Link to the item on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Neat-Ice-Kit-Double-Mold/dp/B00O2CO93G/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

    Bought from
    Amazon
    Bought
    Dec 15, 2015
    Where
    Hot Springs, South Dakota: Home/Apartment/Condominium
    Who was involved
    Unspecified
    The reporter’s relation to them
    Unspecified
    As this report names them
    Brand Neat Ice Kit (Double Mold) - Clear Ice Cube Mold, made or sold by Studio Neat, LLC
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Incident, No Injury

CPSC’s disclaimer

Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.

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Sources

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.

    Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

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Reports of harm are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), on SaferProducts.gov. CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record.

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