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Only Release the Ice Cubes You Need
Have you ever tried to release just a few ice cubes from an ice cube tray only to have all the cubes tumble out? The OXO Good Grips Ice Cube Tray comes to the rescue. A unique, patented cover design lets you release as many ice cubes as you need.
OXO Good Grips Ice Cube Tray:
Dimensions: Measures 1.5 in. x 12.63 in. x 5.5 in.
A Closer Look:
The cover also makes it easy to stack multiple ice cube trays and eliminates freezer odor from permeating your cubes. The innovative rounded ice cubes release easily and the translucent cover lets you see when it's time to refill. Makes 14 cubes.Take Care: Dishwasher safe.
About the Brand: OXO was born in 1990, the first group of 15 OXO Good Grips kitchen tools was introduced to the U.S. market. These ergonomically designed, trans-generational tools set a new standard for the industry and raised the bar of consumer expectation for comfort and performance.
The single biggest problem with this product is the tray cover. OXO started with a good idea: use a cover to keep the cubes fresh and to make it easy to remove just the cubes you want. Unfortunately, this tray's cover is so poorly designed that it's not nearly worth the trouble.
First, it's very difficult to remove the cover to get your ice cubes out. The cover supposed to slide off easily, but it usually gets stuck, because it doesn't fit properly and because little bits of ice easily obstruct the path.
Getting cubes out is bad enough, but the cover is even worse when you're filling the tray. Again, because it doesn't fit very well, it requires a lot of force to push the cover on. Inevitably, you'll have to force it into place and end up splashing a lot of the water out of the cube compartments. This makes your cubes smaller, and the splashed water freezes into little bits of ice that make the cover harder to get off later.
As for asthetics, the tray isn't as good as other OXO products either. It's missing their signature black-rubber grips and offers little else in return.
So, my recommendation is to wait for version 2 before you leap for this product. But, in the meantime, check out other Good Grips products. Fortunately, this product's poor design is an exception for OXO.
This isn't the case, but that doesn't detract from the overall quality of the product. I like the crescent shaped ice cubes, it's easy to fill and hold thanks to its shape, and I suspect that the relatively shallow cubes may even form more rapidly than those in other trays.
That said, I'd hoped this tray would solve the problem of water dripping all over the place when placing the tray in the freezer, it doesn't. Also, it's somewhat wide and doesn't fit in my freezer compartment's door trays - which is somewhat annoying.
Thus, 3 stars... good and bad, worth a consideration if you want to buy an ice cube tray.