Souper Cubes Silicone Freezer Molds Gift Set Review: The Meal-Prep Upgrade Worth The Hype
Souper Cubes has been one of those products you keep seeing on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and food-blog gift guides — and after a few months of regular use, the four-tray gift set genuinely earns its place in the freezer. It is not a magic device, but it solves a real, annoying problem: portioning liquids and semi-liquids for the freezer without wrestling Ziploc bags and Sharpies.
What you're actually buying
The gift set bundles all four standard Souper Cubes sizes: 2 tablespoon, ½ cup, 1 cup, and 2 cup. Each tray is food-grade silicone built around a steel-reinforced rim, so it stays flat when you carry a sloshing tray to the freezer instead of folding in half and dumping stock on your foot. Lids are included on the larger trays in the current gift configuration; double-check the listing for color and lid availability, which Souper Cubes occasionally rotates.
The pitch is simple: pour, freeze, pop the cubes out, and stack them in a labeled bag or container. You get repeatable portions for soup, stew, stock, leftover pasta sauce, pesto, baby food, smoothie packs, butter, herb oil, even portioned cooked rice. The 2-tablespoon tray is the sleeper hit — it is the easiest way to freeze tomato paste, miso, chipotles in adobo, or stock concentrates that recipes call for in tiny amounts.
Performance and real-world use
The cubes release cleanly once fully frozen — usually six to eight hours, though dense purées can take longer. A slight twist of the tray and gentle push from underneath does the job; you do not need to run the tray under warm water unless your freezer is unusually cold. Cubes hold their shape well in a freezer bag and thaw evenly because the portions are uniform.
Where it earns its money is the math: a single 2-cup cube equals one generous bowl of soup or a roughly serving-sized batch of pasta sauce. Pre-portioning means less waste, less defrosting more than you need, and faster reheating. Stock and bone broth in 1-cup cubes go straight into a pan from frozen for risotto, pan sauces, or braises.
Cleaning is silicone-easy: top-rack dishwasher safe, though hand-washing keeps the steel rim looking newer longer. Trays do pick up some staining from tomato-heavy or turmeric-heavy foods over time — cosmetic only, not a performance issue.
- Steel-reinforced rims make filled trays genuinely portable, not floppy
- Four sizes cover almost every realistic meal-prep portion
- Uniform cubes stack and thaw far better than bagged liquids
- 2-tablespoon tray solves the "freeze the leftover tomato paste" problem permanently
- Silicone releases cleanly once cubes are fully frozen
- Dishwasher safe and built to outlast cheaper knockoffs
- Materially more expensive than generic silicone ice trays
- The lids are useful but not airtight enough for long-term storage — you still want a freezer bag or container
- Silicone can pick up freezer odors if not cleaned promptly
- Tomato- and turmeric-based foods will stain the trays cosmetically
- The set is bulky to store when not in use — empty trays do not nest
Anyone who batch-cooks soups, stocks, sauces, or baby food on weekends and wants a saner way to portion the results. Parents of new babies, people meal-prepping for a single household, home cooks who freeze leftovers instead of throwing them out, and anyone who has ever defrosted "one cup of stock" by hacking at a frozen brick.
If you almost never freeze food, do not batch cook, or already have a system of yogurt cups and labeled bags that you are happy with, the premium over generic ice trays is harder to justify. Households short on freezer space will also feel the bulk — these trays are larger than they look in photos.
