I’m losing my mind over this. XD
When I was growing up, my parents had ice cube trays made of solid plastic, with trapezoid shape so the cubes pop out when you twist it. Those trays lasted through my entire childhood and worked great. I want to buy ones like that (either made of thick plastic like that or metal that’s flexible enough to twist like that). But I’ve never seen them in stores, and after scouring the internet I can’t find any like that online either. Everything looks like the same sorts of flimsy materials that I know will break quickly, or is square metal so the cubes won’t pop out like that. Does anyone know where I can find trays like that?
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I have silicone trays and I love them. I haven’t had them super long (about a year), but I use them every day and they show no sign of wear. It doesn’t get brittle with time like some plastic, so I don’t see them wearing down any time soon.
If you need to be able to stack them, it might be worth looking into some kind of small rack?
Have you considered silicone? It’s not going to crack and is more flexible than plastic. The only downside, in my experience, is that they don’t stack well.
I can second silicone from personal experience. They are all I use, and I make the big 1.5” cubes
Third the silicone ice trays! Far superior to hard plastic ones.
I’ve never broken a plastic ice cube tray twisting it. There are plenty of plastic trays on Amazon.
I have tried a silicone one once and didn’t like it, as it took more doing to get the ice cubes out than the plastic tray, where they tend to all readily slide out after the tray’s been given a twist.
I just had 3 out 4 plastic trays shatters like balsa wood after 3 goddamn days. Do not buy “Core Kitchen” trays with silicone bottoms. Everything about them was spectacularly bad product design.
Oxo brand shit is worth its price. I don’t use them anymore but when I did, the Oxo ones with the cover made the best ice and lasted for years
This is the way. People suggest the silicone ones but I need to stack, gimme the rigid ones. The cover makes it even better.
The silicone bottoms stack great. I bought the ones I have now around 5 years ago, the old trays didnt make it through a move and cracked.
