Posted on 04/08/2025 11:15:24 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Exactly what I remember. But now they would say that those are toxic because they are made of aluminum.
Used to have to do that to keep my skin.
The last time I used an ice cube tray it was made of aluminum, had a lever to apply pressure to several hinged plates, and made all kinds of ice-on-metal noise when used. I’ve never used an ice tray since around 1985.
That’s the one!!
Forget the plastic. The dihydrogen monoxide in this trays is deadly and kills thousands a year.
If liquids leeching toxins from plastics is the concern, then bottled water is suspect. As is ketchup, mustard, milk, fruit juice, vodka, etc.
I keep old Roundup containers when empty.
They make good ice cube trays.
Intuitive to ten-year-olds? No such thing, not nowadays! LOL
I remember those aluminum trays when I was a kid. They were awkward and hard to pull that lever up.
Half our world is toxic about now.
“But now they would say that those are toxic because they are made of aluminum.”
Yep! Remember when aluminum pots were blamed for Alzheimers? That was way back in the 1960s!
LOL, I bloody hated those things!
That was the problem I had with them. I would destroy and bend them. But then, I was a strong kid and always tried to muscle through them.
But the plastic ones were worse and even more annoying.
I like the silicone ones I use now.
The ones we had as a kid had a handle you could pull to break the cubes free to dump them out, instead of beating them on the side of the sink like today’s plastic ones.
That’s the ones I grew up with.
I just twist the plastic ones. But my vintage metal ones make bigger, nicer cubes.
> I was a strong kid and always tried to muscle through them.
Yeah, we busted a lot of things I guess by way of impatience and strength. Usually was able to kind of fix what I busted, but not always. I wasn’t able to weld aluminum then, for example!
I broke my last ice cube tray beating it in the sink trying to get the ice out...
I like iced drinks. I did a test.
One method — Take tray out of freezer, empty the cubes, fill with room temperature water, place back in freezer... Ice cubes will stick.
Other way — Let the emptied tray assume room temperature first, then fill with water and place in freezer... Ice cubes don’t stick!
I just remembered that when you did pull the lever up, you ended up getting shards of ice, which is fine, if that is what you wanted!
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