Magic Slushy Cups Compared: Do They Even Work?

Today I'm comparing two slushy cups to see if they really work and to see if one is better than the other

That's today's video, so let's get right to it. Alright, so cups like these, you're supposed to just add a liquid to

It has to have natural sugar, by the way. It can't be yet unsweetened or have artificial sweetener

But you add a sweet drink to these, wait a little bit, and you have a nice slushy

I decided to get two completely different types here, so I have the slushy

slush and shake maker, which I keep mistakenly referring to as a slush and shake

The slush and shake maker versus the frozen magic. And I have a hard time remembering both of their names because they're so generic sounding, but..

The slush and shake maker, you simply just add the liquid to and scrape the sides

On the frozen magic, you add liquid and you just keep squeezing it. The slush and shake maker has a nice outer sleeve so you don't get your hands cold

while the frozen magic has this nice lid and a completely different feel to it

So I tried three different tests, and the results were, well, they were..

a little bit mixed. Check it out. Let's take a closer look at the slush and shake versus the frozen magic

Frozen magic is soft. It's kind of squishy. It does have this nice kind of convenience store type lid to it

And look this. See the sides are soft. Very soft. What you're supposed to do in this one is freeze it, fill it with liquid, and then squeeze. The instructions for the

frozen magic are not written very well. I mean, I can understand the instructions

Place in the freezer, that's easy enough. Step two, you add your favorite chilled drink

Step three, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and in minutes you'll have a frozen treat. At least that

part's easy to understand. On the back, these instructions are not very good. Look at here

It says creative use of way, which already doesn't make sense. My favorite part says

a into the cheesecake with slightly juice agitation creative dessert ice product. That is a complete

sentence supposedly. Anyways, what are the bad instructions matter as long as it works, right

The slush and shake is a very different design. This actually has two sections. This part goes in

the freezer. This one, this part supposedly just protects your hand from getting cold, which this one

doesn't. This one doesn't have a lid, but this one does. And this one doesn't require you to squeeze it

It actually uses this spoon. This says to gently scrape and stir every 60 seconds

So these two are completely different method. This one is a little bit higher rated, but that doesn't mean anything on Amazon

Well, it might mean something, but it may not mean anything. First thing I'm going to do is rinse these out and make sure they're completely dry

Put them in the freezer and then I guess tomorrow I'll get started on my first test

All right, it's about time to get started. started. I've looked over both sets of instructions and the one for the frozen magic is almost

gibberish. It seems like they put the instructions in Google Translate and hit enter and called it

good because it's hard to understand. But between the two of them, really the only thing to know is that you have to

use naturally sweetened drinks, drinks without any sweetener at all or artificial sweetener will not work

That seems to be the primary concern. So I'm just going to start off with something random. I pull out

in my fridge and see how it works. I found some soy chocolate milk that nobody's drinking

so I need to get rid of it. So this will be a good chance for it. That's about one cup of

liquid. Now step three just says to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze for several minutes. Several

minutes of squeezing, huh? Well, I can already see this being a disaster where you give you to a kid

Am I doing this right? Put, oh, put on lid. Okay. Well, that makes more sense. Not quite as much

of a disaster with a lid on there. Put on lid and squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, in just minutes you'll

delicious frozen treat. That's it. That's all, that's all, that's all it says. That help

that lid definitely helps I have no idea how long this is going to take They said several minutes I going to take this cap off real quick here It does look like we getting some ice around the edges here

As I look in there, it actually is becoming more like frozen chocolate milk

I definitely had my doubts about this. I still kind of have my doubts about it, even though it seems like it's working

It kind of looks like mud coming up through a hole in the ground or something. Okay, let me try it out

It feels like it's still getting. more and more frozen like it's might be may not even be slushy enough after a while

Wow. Wow. No, it's too frozen to drink. It's a little deceiving because this is not all

chocolate. This is actually mostly the edges of the cup. This worked well. The only thing is it is

very cold and my fingertips are almost numb right now from holding this glass. But the

Zoku supposedly addresses that. So let's try that next. All right. it's time for the zoku slush and shake fill line according to the instructions are right here

all right they both hold exactly one cup to support in there wait a minute or two so i don't have to do

anything unlike the frozen magic which i had to pretty much be squeezing the entire time this one

i mostly am waiting for it and scrape it on occasion so let's see how that works try the first

scrape oh i already see some i already see a little bit of ice while i'm waiting for the slush

shake. I was going to mention one thing about the frozen magic. And that is there's so many

crevices in here. It's really hard to tell when you've got it all, how much is left in there

Because each one of these crevices is filled with this and the bottom is just kind of a black hole

You can't really see it down in there. So there's definitely a texture that's forming on the walls

Because this is a smooth plastic, but it's a very rough feel to it. So it can feel the ice forming

Oh, I actually left out a step. I'm supposed to put it inside of this sleeve

Because my hands were getting cold from holding that, and I remembered that they already accounted for that with this

Much better. The instructions for the slush and shake do say that if you wait a long time in between scraping the walls

the ice will thicken and will be harder to scrape. But they also say wait about every one or two minutes between scrape

So it's kind of a learning curve, I guess, with the scraping

Oh wow, I can definitely feel it for me now. Oh, yeah

Not only can you have fun with your kids in the kitchen while you do this, but it teaches them a valuable life lesson of patience

because it takes a few minutes for it to really do anything. With both of these at first, I didn't think it was going to work

because they were liquid for so long, but it seems like eventually you start becoming more icy

and it works out pretty well. This is becoming much more. Look this. That's the consistency

I guess if you let it sit long as, It would even be more icy, but this is kind of, I'm kind of wanting this right now

All right, let's try it out. It still seems like it's forming ice on the sides, even as I'm eating it, though

But this came out really good. This is just like a chocolate slushy

Look at the ice. It's so icy on the sides. I have to actually scrape it like a, scraping a windshield in the wintertime

Well, I think Test 1 was the success for, Both of them, I think one was a little better than the other, but now I've got to refreeze them

and tomorrow come back with another round and see how it works for that. All right, so both cups washed up easily, and I've got them in the freezers

Tomorrow, I think I'm going to try some cola. Again, I can't try any diet soda

You have to just try regular, so I'm going to try some of that. And I just realized that consuming two cups of soy chocolate milk is not doing so well

so I think I need to take the rest of the night off. Soy back in the morning to try out round number two

It day number two I going to try some cola in there this time

Not Mountain Dew though, which would have been a good idea. I know how to think about it, but I don't have any Mountain Dew

I'm actually going to be doing a Mountain Dew competitor for the next round. I'm going to also point out that after my first test with the soy chocolate milk, this was a bit

of a pain to clean. This was especially right in there. That was hard to clean

This was a pain to clean. It was just a pain to clean

So that's something going against that one. I thought it might be interesting to do it on a nice warm day

Let's see how warm it is here in Las Vegas today. Oh, it really isn't that warm

I honestly I thought it was warmer than that. It feels warmer than that. All right, so I got to run inside, grab both cups

I'm going to do them at the same time this time and see how it goes

I also got my stopwatch to see how long it actually takes. All right, I'm ready to go

I have high hopes now. After yesterday, I got high hopes for this. Now this one I've got let sit for a minute or two anyway

so I'm going to start squeezing this one. So what do you guys call it? Did you say soda, cola, coke, or what some of my cousins called pop

When I was a kid, I used to just call everything carbonated Coke. A lot of people have different ideas of what they should call it

I keep forgetting to put it in the outer sleeve. Sorry about that, guys. All right, I'm definitely seeing some ice on this one now

This one is in the league. Shockingly, because they were about the same yesterday

I'm not feeling any ice at all on this one. And this one feels like it's done

I actually have an upset in the making. I'm actually kind of upset about this being an upset

I said, look at this. Why is this not working? I'm not getting any ice. None

And this one's done. We have a winner, I guess. That tastes just like you get from 7-Eleven

I don't know. I don't understand. It worked yesterday. And this one worked too

In the same conditions. I put them in the freezer at the same time. I put the drink in there at the same time

I brought them outside at the same time. I'm at a loss

Oh, wait, we're getting ice in there. I'm getting ice in here now. Some ice has started forming at the five-minute mark

So I'm going to let it sit for a minute. I'm a little confused about that. Honestly, I don't understand

Because going into this test, I thought that one was better. Now, I'm not so sure

Bailey, which one's better? Which one's better, Bailey? Come here. Which one's better

Which one? She's not being much help. Let's see what you got here

Oh, now it's getting ice. I'm almost done with this one, and the other one's just starting out of warm ice

I feel like, and this is not something that most reviewers would say, by the way

but I feel like there's user error on this one. I don't know what it could be

I put them both in the freezer at the same time. I poured the drink in there at the same time

I brought them outside at the same time. I just don't know. Now we're getting there

See this? Oh, look this. Whoa. All I can think about is being outside must have affected this one in a way that it didn't affect this one

I'm not sure what that is though. But at the seven and a half minute mark, I would say I have a very acceptable slushy here

You know what this means though, since I got a little better results the first time

on one and better results the second time on the other, I got to do around three, which means

I got to eat these, put them in the Fraser again tonight, and then try it around three tomorrow

and see if I can come up with the clear winter. It's a nice frozen treat now, but it took a lot

longer out here. For whatever reason, this one didn't seem like being outside. Maybe I'll try

around. I guess that's the question. Do I try around three outside or inside? Huh, I don't know

Day three final test Let dry it out I going to put about one cup each just to make sure it even

This one will set for a minute or two, and this one I'm going to start squeezing. At the minute and a half mark, I'll try a scrape here

Oh, I got some ice forming. We've got some ice forming. Not a lot, but a little bit of ice

Do I really need this? Probably not. We've got ice forming in there too

Once again, the slush and shake is behind as far as the time goes

Not much ice on that one. I'm definitely getting them in the frozen magic

At the three minute mark, frozen magic crushing it. Oh, we're getting ice now

Getting more ice. Slush and shake is just a little bit slower

It's all. For whatever reason. About the three and a half. half minute mark, I think that the frozen magic's done. Does it look done to you? That looks pretty done to me

I think this one looks done. Before the four minute mark. And the slush and shake

We're just getting some ice now. Well, I think as far as the time goes, two out of three

I've never had a slushie made from straight cranberry juice before. It's interesting

Let's see what the slush and shake is doing over here. Oh yeah, we're getting ice now

It's getting there slowly. I think I'm going to be done with the frozen magic before the slush and shakes even ready to be eaten

Well, the seven and a half minute mark I'm almost done with the frozen magic. Just in time for the slush and shake to be done, I guess

Here we go. Now, it's looking nice now. It's just, I don't know why it's so much slower

When I did the first test of the soy chocolate milk, I didn't do them side by side so I wasn't paying as much attention

But my two head-to-head matchups, the frozen magic has just destroyed. it. At least as far as speed goes, there's other pros and cons that I'll talk about in a minute

I mean, it's a nice frozen treat. It just took a little longer. Sometimes good things are

worth waiting for. I'm gonna ponder the pros and cons of these and then wrap this thing up

So in the end, I'm a little bit on the fence about which one of these I like the best

The frozen magic seemed to win the speed test. When I wasn't timing them, I didn't notice a huge difference

but when I timed them, the frozen magic slaughtered it. If speed was the only factor, I would

definitely say the frozen magic's better, but there's other things to consider all of them which

favor the slush and shake maker. Number one, this just feels, it feels cheap. It feels like it's gonna

it feels like it could easily tear or break or get poked with the utensil or something. The

inside has that same material. It's also very difficult to clean this one. I mean look at all

those cracks and crevices in there and you can't put in the dishwasher, so it's kind of a pain to

clean. The lid is nice but you usually use a spoon anyway so the lid's kind of pointless. Same with their straw. The

The straw is hard to clean as well. I mean, you need like a pipe cleaner or something to get in there

So the slush and shake maker, even though it was slower, much easier to clean. Look at that. Just wipe it out

Your hands don't get cold. It feels more sturdy. The spoon, it doesn't really add much, but it is good for the scraping the edges of it

I believe I paid about 30 for the frozen magic and about 23 for the slush and shake maker

So I don't think I can really declare an absolute winner here. They both kind of have the pros and cons

If you're not worried about longevity and you're worried more about, about how fast it's going to make something

you gotta go with the frozen magic. But if you're looking for something a little bit longer term

that's gonna last you a while, something that's easier to clean that might take longer to make your slushies

you've gotta go with the slush and shake maker. If I was choosing between the two of these

it would be a hard choice. I would go with the slush and shake maker

I feel like it's gonna last longer, it's easier to clean. You don't get your hands cold

but it does take longer. But I can see, there's definitely a case you made for both of them

I should mention that both of them do work. So I think that you can't go

wrong with either one of them. So if you like what you see, I think you should definitely try

picking up one of them. If you've tried one of these, leave a comment below and let everybody know what you think. Otherwise, I appreciate you watching and I'll see you next time