Ice cube trays..?

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OK, so my life is clearly at some sort of low when I start to ask questions about ice cube trays on a photography forum, but I need a decent one - one that allows me to get a cube or two of ice out without a ten minute battle that results in more going on the floor that in my glass.

Some friends have a big fancy American fridge and their trays just need a little twist and all the ice comes loose - is it too much to ask that I can have something similar ?

The ones we have are like this, and just do not do their job..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maker-Plas...qid=1472462040&sr=1-7&keywords=ice+cube+trays
 
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Have a look at Lakeland....or what about the bags that you fill and freeze?
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Have a look at Lakeland....or what about the bags that you fill and freeze?
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Heather, you are clearly someone who understands my pain, and I shall indeed look at Lakeland - the freezer bags we used to use many years ago and they always seemed like a bit of a faff..
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Have a look at Lakeland....or what about the bags that you fill and freeze?
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I've tried the freeze bags. They're good, but obviously single use.
The amount of ice I use, it's more space (and possibly cost) efficient to buy it by the £1.00 kg bag.
I miss my ice machine, but the hardness of the water locally meant it didn't last very long, and they're not cheap. :(
 
We've got a couple of the plastic ones with rubber bottoms (ooerr missus!) which let you pop out a cube at a time fairly easily. Before we had to get a new fridge freezer (much smaller than the old one, especially the freezer compartment) we used to keep an ice cream container full of ice ready to use. On holiday we use the stick bags - the sticks fit through the neck of a bottle and keep it reasonably cold for a while, although we also lob a couple of bottles of plain water in the freezing compartment of the fridge so it acts as a cool bag cold block as well as being a source of cold water.
 
I have a silicon tray that works well and yes it is in the shape of eeyore
 
#1stworldproblems :D

If my ice cubes get stuck, and I find the egg tray supplied with the fridge quite adequate, I'll run cold water over the tray briefly, that soon loosens them :)
 
Silicon ones are good although we mainly use the bags

I miss my ice machine, but the hardness of the water locally
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I lived in your neck of the woods for a few years in the 80's and remember the water at times had a strong chlorine taste. Had to let it stand and settle before drinking or mask it with squash, even boiled the tea still tasted horrible
 
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Has anyone tried the reusable steel cubes?

Doesn't water down your whiskey;)
 
Don't like ice in whisk(e)y! I've used the water filled plastic reusable things and brought some volcanic "ice" cube rocks back from Iceland for a friend but never tried the steel ones. Not a bad idea - might get some big stainless nuts and lob 'em in the freezer!
 
I do keep a couple of small bags of "alternative" ice cubes in the freezer. Ones made of orange juice, and ones made of Coke. Both prevent the watering down of each drink.
 
Before I had my American style fridge freezer, I simply wacked the tray onto the work top. Always does the trick to loosen them.

Now it's got its own supply and in line filter and just always on tap.
 
We just buy a bag of cubes at the local shop when needed, they're usually nice and loose.
 
I don't have a freezer (only a tiny ice box in the fridge) so no room for a bag from the corner shop.
I use silicon trays (for non-water cubes), bags and - most recently - some spherical moulds to make ice spheres.
 
I've given up on trays. I now put water into baking trays put that in the freezer. When it's frozen you put it in around 5 to 10 mm of water and it drops out. Put it into a decent freezer bag and smash it up a bit you can then put it back in the freezer. Works really well for cocktails where you need lots of ice.
 
Something I discovered is that old ice-cube trays invariably do not relinquish the cubes anyway near as good as new ice-cube trays, my presumption is that each time a cube is pushed out it takes a bit of the surface with it and in the end the little pockmarks mean the ices sticks.

So you can either buy new ice-cube trays every so often (like non-stick frying pans) or just buy bags of the stuff which is much less hassle - a good G&T MUST have a glass full of ice.
 
Whisky stones are good for short drinks where you don't want dilution, but not for long drinks or those where you want dilution (old fashioned for example).
You need both ;)
 
Llamaman said:
but not for long drinks or those where you want dilution
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Not only that, its the law that you have to crunch an ice cube if it ends up in your mouth :thumbs:
 
Llamaman said:
Whisky stones are good for short drinks where you don't want dilution, but not for long drinks or those where you want dilution (old fashioned for example).
You need both ;)
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When I have a long drink, I put them all in :D
 
Cobra said:
Not only that, its the law that you have to crunch an ice cube if it ends up in your mouth (y)
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AND that the ice should crack as one pours the spirit over it!
 
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