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(More customer reviews)Over the years my wife and I accumulated a mismatched pile of ice cube trays. When we bought a "new" house with a late-model fridge, we ditched the trays in favor of the fridge's automatic ice maker. It turns out that the ice maker took up a third of the freezer and had other issues. The ice maker had to go. So we found ourselves back in the tray market. After some study on Amazon, we bought a pair of the Orka Ice Cube Trays. Our findings:
1. First and biggest finding: you will likely not be able to pop the cubes free using only the flexible silicone bottom membranes on the cube sections. You either must run the tray under warm water or simply do the old flex-the-tray routine you always did with plastic ice trays. The silicone push panels make it easier but they usually won't do the job on their own. I'm a 6 foot man with reasonable hand strength. My 5 foot wife doesn't even try. She hands the tray to me.
2. The top cover is a useful feature. It keeps you from popping the cubes and other bits of ice around the room when you're freeing the cubes from the tray. You loosen the cubes, flip the works over, and you get an open tray full of easily grabbed ice cubes.
3. The forms on the tray cover allow secure stacking of Orka trays. In our crowded freezer this is a good thing.
Conclusions: these are not bad ice trays and they have some nice features. We'll use them. Would we do it over again for $9.95 a copy? Probably not, but I don't yet know of any that are better.
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Orka Ice Cube Tray, OrangeIce cube tray with flexible bottom for easy cube removal
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