Dippin' Dots Frozen Dot Maker: Does It Really Work? Let's Find Out! 

I believe the magic to Dippin Dots is it they are made with liquid nitrogen and Frozen in an instant and that's what gives them their creamy texture that they are known for. This is just tiny ice balls.

The one thing I'm already noticing, is the dispenser even necessary? Couldn't they just sell the trays with the funnel? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

A real dippin dots maker would probably be a whole-ass science lab lol

Dipndots Can only be made using liquid nitrogen, so I'm not surprised they didnt come out anything like dipndots

The number one flaw of this is that this isn't a Dippin' Dots maker. It just makes tiny frozen juice ice cubes. It's essentially an ice pop maker. Every time I've had Dippin' Dots, it's been ice cream and not little mini ice pop balls. I've only encountered "Dippin' Dots" twice and both times were at theme parks.

A little surprised that he didn't try Melted Ice Cream in the dispenser.

Dippin’ Dots has an entire subsidiary focused on cryogenics as a result of the technology they developed originally to store the ice cream pellets.

I had these as a kid. I loved them for what they were and didn’t compare them to the ones you’d get at parks. When this thing first came out they sold packets of flavors, like banana, cotton candy, and others. I absolutely LOVED the cotton candy one. They were a lot better when you had the flavor packets rather than just using drinks. They were more creamy too.

That looks like a whole lot of work for a few tablespoons of frozen treat.

The dippin dots that you get from the grocery store aren't even the real thing, though they aren't bad. Real dippn dots require temperatures below what a regular freezer can do as they're flash frozen with liquid nitrogen when they're made and require special freezers to store them.

What kills me about a lot of these products is I would buy them if it was simplified. Give me the trays and the cup for $10 or so and I will just pour my drink into the fill reservoir directly. Skip the stupid stand and dispensers 😂

My first thought was that there was no way it'd be even remotely close, especially because I think you'd need dry ice or something. It doesn't even really seem like a good activity for kids because you're guaranteed to make a sugary, sticky mess. Just use some ice cube trays to freeze your juice of choice and smash the cubes in a ziplock. Watching the moulds fill up is pretty satisfying though.

It could work as an improvised liquor dispenser.

Dippin Dots are creamy…like ice cream I mean. This looks like a ton of work for very little pay off. Very informative video! Thank you! ❤️🙏🏻

I remember seeing the vending machine that used suction to lift the cup and dispense it when it first came out at a movie theaters. That on its own was very cool and the dots were sweet as well

maybe the dispenser can be used for those recipes? like say you have coconut water in one of the bottles, and pineapple juice in another fill half the funnel with coconut and the other half with pineapple. edit: maybe name it the Snorb Maker (Snorb = Snow and Orb)

This review was too kind.

Definitely not wasting my money on this. Thanks James for another funny item and review

I am so glad you showed the real ones as I have never heard of them

I love how your respectfully sarcastically condescending, your explanations are so clear and concise. Thank you for the time you take doing these.

you could probably just fill up the ice tray you got at the dollar store with those juices, and you'll get the same thing. Or they should just sell the molds and the injector, no need for that big thing.

Kinda looks like Solero Shots which were also little frozen treat balls, but were water-based rather than dairy-based. I think there was a lime flavour and an orange flavour.

Your videos are very entertaining to me! You are such a likable guy with interesting products to demonstrate. Thanks!

“Dash of lime juice” enough lime juice to make a grown man look like a puckering cartoon character

Real dipping dots made using liquid nitrogen to freeze them and that's also what gives them that texture.

I had a sudden vivid memory return to me while watching this. When my brother and I were little kids, we loved Harry Potter, and our parents bought us this cauldron/alchemy candy maker kit thing. Basically, you poured different powders into plastic cauldrons and beakers while following instructions, and at the end you'd end up with a candy or something. In the end, I don't think a single one of the candies actually came out right. My parents just seemed frustrated by the end of it, and we never did try it again (they sold the powders to make more). This thing makes me think of that. Like the cauldron candy maker thing, this dippin dots maker is like 90/10 the parents doing all the work. From just trying to pour in the various liquids without making a mess, to storing all the dot trays in the freezer, to scraping them out of it. It feels like this would be incredibly fun for some little kids, but if it is so difficult and tedious for parents to do all the work, what's the point? In the end, I feel for the team who had to come up with this. It's such a fun design and you can tell they really tried to make it work. Even if they're glorified ice tray popsicles made into spoon-scoopable treats. This product was a challenge for them to make, and they really tried, despite the material budget working against them. Forgive me for making an unofficial supplementary review of Mr. Freakin's official one. But props to Mr. Freakin' for bringing back this long forgotten memory and making me want some dippin' dot for the first time since I was a kid. ...I don't even know if I have any still-open malls nearby anymore.

I think if whole milk, condensed milk, or some sort of milk base would make this thing operate more like regular dip n dots

I never heard of dippin dots before! I want some! 😂

Well, after seeing it, I do not think it is a $30 item, maybe $12 - $15 and I know you used the coffee but I am a little surprised you didn't try with milk and something to flavor the milk (strawberry) or something, dip-n-dots are icecream. But you showed it isn't worth a $30 price tag. 👋🤠

The sound that it makes when it's dispensing is satisfying

I remember using this device as a kid. I was very disappointed due to it just being frozen juice that wouldn't break apart as easily as expected. I stuck to standard popsicle makers after using this.

You might have fun trying Japanese candy making kits. What if you used melted ice cream and froze that?

Oh we used to have one of these! We used to stretch a water balloon over the tops of the pens instead of using the caps, it works a lot better.

Just plain chocolate dippin’ dots are still one of my all time favorite treats!

Good review! To make dipping dots, you would need a caviar box. Or a spherication syringe and drop it into liquid nitrogen.

I wonder if a similar tray/mold that's more flexible would work better

Another great video my dude. Keep ‘em coming. Also, the beard looks seriously nice. A bit jealous. You make it look so easy because I’m fighting a beard monster of my own and one like yours is the end goal. Cheers bud.

Regardless of the fact you can't make proper dippin dots without liquid nitrogen; the stand and bottles are completely superfluous, all you need for the same outcome is the molds and funnel

i remember seeing commercials for these on tv when i was a kid! as an adult, it’s so funny seeing how over engineered these things were just so kids could think they were doing some crazy black magic

Thx so much for sharing…really enjoy your reviews!

this video unlocked some repressed memories of dippin dots. Shame they are pretty much discontinued now and don't make this product anymore cuz I'd still be buying them.

Take a shot every time James says "we shall see"

The real dippin dots are made with nearly melting ice cream dripped into liquid nitrogen, from my understanding

"Mom, can I get some Dippin' Dots?" "Shut up Timmy! we can make Dippin' Dots at home!"

Slush puppy has reinvented itself in the UK. New machine and Syrups are available 50's style And even a new milk shake machine. (That most people buy accidently thinking its a slushie mashine Massive slushie brand writing, very small milk shake written on the bottom) And Soda streams are back out on the shelves too But we have never had this Gizmo

I think froyo would pair really well with this, not really dip n dots but probably a lot closer then anything used in the video.

The best informative video I have ever watched. Thank you for making this video. And for all the info and details. You're the best.

I had one of these as a kid 😂. What a hit of nostalgic.

I genuinely have been craving dippindots for years. They don’t sell them in the UK 😢

Omg!! Dipping dots were my niece's favorite treats when she little. Whenever i had play date with her she would always wanted me to take her to the mall for dipping dots.

The end result looks identical to Solero Shots. I'm not sure if it was available in the US or only in Europe. It's been discontinued so I can see the nostalgia factor in making your own. I'd skip the dispenser though and just fill straight with the funnel! 😅

1:08. Oh, man! That did me in so badly! Haha. I don't think i ever saw you tear the instructions before.

Ice cube tray and tooth picks seems more fun than all this

They are frozen ice pops. Dippin dots are made with liquid nitrogen.

We got this for our son on Xmas but it has a different nozzle. I thought it'd be cool because he loves dipping dots but it's a glorified ice tray at the end of the day.. he likes it but mehh.. One thing he likes is my ghetto rootbeer floats where I use a regular sweet coffee creamer mixed with rootbeer so we mixed it and made dots outta it.. I came up with it when we ran outta vanilla icecream and the sweet cream coffee creamer is basically like melted vanilla icecream. Tastes identical to it in a root beer float

Just a hint…when u added the oat milk to the mango drink, that sounded delicious until u decided to add a hint of lime juice…sour flavors and milk never go well…tastes like expired milk

"These are Dippin' Dots...these are..." Me: chickpeas?

If you didn't put ice cream mix into in, you're not getting ice cream out of it. Pretty simple.

Oh, I used to have this when I was little. I would mix milk with vanilla extract like my older brother showed me and make that into dip in dots. If I still had this I would instead use cake batter flavoring

Crazy. Could achieve the same results with only half of the parts. BTW, where do you store the massive amounts of junk you accumulate?

So, there will never be a "home" Dippin' Dots maker. Dippin' Dots started as a project to make cryogenically frozen feed for animals before the realization came that if you made ice cream with it, it was really tasty. It requires storage at below -40 so specialized coolers are required. This is why you can't get them at grocery stores. All this is doing basically is making pebbles of ice.

Ahhh another addition for James' Bone Yard....Happy Tuesday! 😊

Love all your videos, keep up the fantastic work.

Omg I had one of these as a kid…nothing like the real dippin dots, but it was the experience that counted 😂

"My fingers are covered in coke." What is things Don Jr. would say? Alex.

It hinges on having a high water content in the liquid to help with freezing. And regardless of what you put in there, it will just taste like the frozen version of that liquid. The flavor of it shouldn't change.

I'm sure it would be too thick to work, but if it did, I'm curious if you made a homemade smothie if it would be closer to real dots 🤔

Fill it with melted ice cream and put it in a cooler with dry ice lol

lol you have to make Dipping dots at -325F and store them at -40. So just slightly off.

I used to have one of these years ago. They used to come with flavor packets, I wonder if they still make them of If they are discontinued.

Citrus and dairy are like oil and water

You can buy real dipping dots online, straight from the company, either in large bulk bags (for parties) or smaller single serve bags. They ship it with a brick of solid co2 to keep it at -40 degrees.

I worked for unilever in one of there ice cream factories. We made a similar product to dip n dots. It’s a pretty simple process. You spray the cream or juice from shower nozzles and they fall into a large conveyer belt. The conveyor belt is in a large box with nitrogen. The temp inside is about -120. This product is nowhere near what the process is in real life.

These are essentially really fancy ice cube trays

A good example of licensing gone wrong.

I've never heard of dippin' dots but after watching your review I'm pretty sure I didn't miss anything.

I bet it wouldn't be too bad if you made an ice cream base (cream, milk, sugar) whip it up a little bit so it's fluffy but still runny and use that. Then it will be more like ice cream instead of ice cubes.

I'll stick to my Hawaiian Shaved Ice machine

I don’t know if I’m the only one that noticed or not, but he complained about how difficult some of them came out but he also didn’t use the same technique lol So it’s not really that fair. I think the twisting helped as you can see the balls look lighter as they release from the sides also pushing on the back seems to have helped them pop out.

On Amazon UK this is £68 which is more than double the US price. Then again neither myself nor anyone I have spoken to knows what Dippin Dots are so it is probably a US import.

A proper dots maker would use something like dry ice to rapidly chill drops like how the real dots are made with liquid nitrogen

I've watched other reviews of this product and while it does mostly work, it's also messy and doesn't exactly give you true Dippin' Dots. It only provides a crude facsimile... as most toy versions are want to do. If you want the real thing, you have to go get it from a Dippin' Dots shop.

The only way it will be actual dippin dots is if you put melted ice cream in there. Dippin dots is created by thinly pouring ice cream mixture into basically liquid nitrogen.

Curious what would stop you from just pouring the liquid into the mold. Basically JUST using the molds and see if that works. If so, just buy a cheap mold and call it a day. Less space, less mess, less money.

Just started the video. I am so hoping this thing works. I'm expecting it won't but my hope is alive for now lol

Milk + Lime Juice is making my stomach bubble

I'd imagine that tray part is made in china. Looks exactly like my ice ball tray. Though smaller than that, same color though

Seems like too much trouble for frozen juice, I've never had dippin dots so don't know what they taste like but when I want a frozen treat I just get the frozen fruit in the freezer section, typically strawberry slices & pineapple chunks, very tasty, & healthier

I used to have the ICEE maker as a kid growing up. It was a lot more simple than this. I feel like this is a bit excessive with the outcome it gives.

Spray mold with silicone spray befo=e use.

"My fingers are covered in Coke" ~Freakin Reviews 2023

Dip n dots..... The ice cream of the future for the last 40 years 😂😂😂

"My fingers are covered in coke" if only I had a dollar for everytime I've said that in my life. I'd be rich! Lol

Just give me an old fashioned popsicle maker. Same flavors, less fussy. Easier cleanup.

One never knows what they'll learn about watching this channel. Occasionally will see a gadget that's a newfangled variation on something else which is familiar. However, have never heard of, or seen, Dippin' Dots. Can see the appeal of the original, but a whole lotta effort, bit of a mess, with this contraption given the results. Really enjoy your highly entertaining reviews

The pen thing is completely redundant when they already give you a funnel that works perfectly.

Who chews Dip N Dots like that? I’ll answer, monsters do lol

I had three different jobs out here in Vegas before covid kit and one of them was stocking up all of our special freezers that had to be a lot colder than regular freezers in all the stores.. and we had to transport it in dry ice, so for everyone saying the stuff you get at stores and gas stations aren't real dippin' dots, you're wrong.

I'm going to guess ahead of time that the primary issue with the machine is it doesn't freeze them correctly. This based on the fact that Dippin' Dots are normally stored in the negative double digits.

I have never tried Dippin' Dots, which surprises me since I have a love of ice cream 🤷🏼‍♀️