

Some presses have handles, but those are entirely unnecessary for proper operation. There may be various materials used, such as copper and aluminum. Now this is where we can have major deviations. Stephen Hawkings once said that gravity shares the large structures of our universe, so on our scale the ice block doesn't stand a chance. The specific heat of the aluminum metal is less than water, and as the cold is pulled out of the ice block, gravity does its magic.

With more weight, the ice device works faster.

The Pressice Ice Ball Press, weighs 4.7 pounds, and there's a reason. The first thing you'll notice when unboxing the ice ball press is the weight of the machine. Gravity is yet another universal rule of ice presses. The ice press metal gets colder as the block ice gets warmer, and the larger the temperature difference (ie heating up the press) the quicker the ice block melts into the iconic ice press sphere shape. When these differences in surface temperature are touching each other, it's a race to reach an equilibrium point. In essence, the metal is 'warm', and the ice block is 'cold'. Whether copper or aluminum, each and every ice ball press relies on thermal conduction to operate. This is a universal rule of ice presses.Thermal conduction should be everyone's favorite subject in school, right? All jokes aside, this is the de facto most important principle in spherical ice ball machines.
