OXO Good Grips Ice Cube Tray - 2 Pack

I've always gone to this company when I'm needing a(nother) can opener or kitchen gadget. I got hooked on youtube's Epicurious series on "Kitchen gadgets reviewed by a design expert" and I had to find out more about the host, Dan Formosa. Come to find out, he worked with OXO and is a renowned expert on product design, and is in demand through his projects and lectures. He and his team, or whoever he worked with, designed some of the most well-thought out, easy to use products. They're intuitive, innovative, and decidedly superior and I have a kitchen full of OXO products.Here's an example: The sliding covers can be opened at either end, and don't automatically assign a "direction," which is handy. Plus, they snap reassuringly into place and they don't allow leaks.Another is the shape of the cubes: They're not square but rectangular, which allows for the glass or container to be filled but not overfilled. And, they are rounded at the bottom, which allows you to slide the cube out with one finger from both directions. The trays stack beautifully and are good space savers, helpful in my sometimes overstuffed freezer.In short, who would have thought a simple unassuming little item like an ice cube tray could be so beautifully well thought out and geared for human use? I've fought ice cube trays for years, having to run hot water on them and banging, wrenching, and twisting trays and disliking what I had to do just to get some ice. I haven't got a fancy fridge that delivers ice, and these little easy-to-use trays are the next best thing.Very highly recommended! Get 'em, try 'em, fall in love....

I love these ice trays. Sometimes I overfill and it’s difficult to remove the lid. Running water over it solves that. Ice cubes are really easy to remove onto the upside down lid with a twist of the tray.

[edit: I'm bumping this up to 4 stars, because I discovered the importance of NOT OVERFILLING THE TRAY. When properly filled, there's about 1/8" clearance between the top of the ice and the bottom of the lid. If you take care in filling it, the lid doesn't stick to the tray as you'll find in many reviews. One might well argue that a goldang ice tray shouldn't be so fiddly, but mindfulness is a virtue.]I dunno, 3? 4? 3.5? I bought this about a month ago and I go through a couple-three trays of ice a week. There's not that much to learn about an ice tray.This one I find... pretty good. The lid, when snapped on and slid into place correctly, lightly suppresses but does not hold the water in the tray on the way to the freezer beyond the gentlest slish. If you're a clumsy dork like me, this tray ain't gonna save your proper slosh. Keep dishrag handy and be ready to refill.The clever mechanism by which this tray can deliver a single cube at a time is, for my purposes, useless. Who wants one ice cube? Especially when they're half the size of the ice cubes we made in those aluminum trays with the lever you pulled to forcibly dislodge those manly cubes of yore.I will say, though, that although the shape of the cuboids here produced roughly halves the volume of yon cubes, the elegant way they toboggan up the opposite side of the tray when you press on one end is delightful and enormously satisfying.I have found it difficult, not to say impossible, to fill it such that splishing water on the way to the freezer does not freeze the cover to the tray. This is no problem for me, but my tiny aged mother has a hard time giving it the <TWIST> <TWIST> that it needs to release the cover or indeed the cuboidal forms within. Caveat arthritico!It's fine, I'm not sending it back. It was what, five six bucks? But the anticipated cleverness of deign from this brand here bats only one out of three for me.

These OXO Good Grips Ice Cube Trays are a fantastic. The lids seal easily, so I can stack them in the freezer without spills or awkward tilting. The trays are sturdy yet flexible enough to pop the cubes out effortlessly—no more twisting or banging. I also love the thoughtful design of the grips; they’re comfortable and practical. The cubes come out uniform and clean every time. Worth every penny for quality and convenience. Highly recommend!

The ice maker went out in my refrigerator and it didn't matter. In fact, I’m glad it happened.Less noise. Less freezer burn. Just a practical design that makes it easy.The trays are injection-molded plastic and are stiff enough to remain rigid but also flexible enough to “unlock” cubes-which was always a problem with traditional rectangular hard plastic where it was seemingly all or nothing, and trying to pick up (or find) the strays on the floor was a hassle.Stop the search then the next morning your bare or sock feet remind you that you lost a cube. I hate a wet sock.The tray design is such that the cubes are not square (convex on bottom) which makes it possible to remove single cubes that you want to use.…simply by applying pressure on either end of the cube with a finger after twisting the tray, i.e. they “rock” back and forth on a 180° vertical plane.They are also molded in a way that when all cubes are connected (from usual, accidental overfill) the depth of channels between cube sections are more shallow so they break free more easily.The flat, sliding lids provide even more stability and allow them to be stacked.Also, if your freezer has shelving they sit flat without falling between grates.For me, these were hard to find. Most were silicone and too flexible to transport across the kitchen without making a mess.5 out of 5

Does what it says on the tin. Makes ice, easy to fill and get out. Stacks well in the freezer and most crucially doesn’t make your ice taste weird because it isn’t made of silicone