Customer Reviews

Rubbermaid 2867-RD-WHT White Ice Cube Tray

5 star:		(76)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

When the ice cube trays that came with the fridge wore out, we tried locally purchased trays that quickly wore out. We then bought six different kinds online to try them out. These white Rubbermaid trays won hands down. I immediately bought a dozen. They fill easily, empty with a simple twist, set flat on a shelf and stack perfectly. We go through a lot of ice (I empty/refill seven of these each day) and these trays have eliminated a LOT of frustration.

I always seek out these Rubbermaid ice cube trays when I need to replace mine, as they are the best, in my opinion. They make large cubes that pop out reasonably easily, and I freeze six trays at a time. If you overfill the trays, they stick to each other, but it's easy to pry them apart. I hope they will always be available.

It may seem strange to rave about ice cube trays, but I have too much experience slamming my old plastic trays on the countertop to loosen the cubes, causing crack that leaked water onto my freezer after I tried to fill them. These trays release the cubes very easily. One less source of daily frustration.

I got my ice trays yesterday. Two of mine, I had bought four years ago broke, so I bought these by Rubbermaid over the internet. Yes, they are worth it. On your regular ice cube trays you have to twist this way and that just to get them loose enough to slam on the countertop, for half of them to come out. With this Rubbermaid tray, I gave them about a quarter twist and ALL the cubes 'snapped' loose. They all dropped out together. That's why I gave them the five stars.

Just between us, I don't know how long they'll last before the flexible plastic eventurally cracks or breaks--I kinda hope for five years. Oh yes, I noticed the surface of this plastic is much smoother and slicker than my old trays. This is probably why they 'snapped' loose so easy. I also noticed the shape of the ice cubes are, by design, made not to 'hangup' so they come out easier--(the bottom of the cube is smaller than the top). So let's do a quick point by point pro and con:

1. It works fine--I cannot suggest improvements.
2. These ice trays hold 16 cubes instead of 12 (my old trays have 12)
3. These cubes (by my quick measurment) are just over one inch thick. (my old cubes are one and a half inches thick--harder to get out of the tray because of it).
4. Because there are more cubes with Rubbermaid, but smaller, they probably come out to almost the same amount of ice as my older ice cube tray--possibly a little more.

CONS:
1. I measured 12 and 1/2 inches long, and 5 inches wide. These trays are a little longer than my old trays. If I do not slide them all the way in, the freezer door will hit them.

This CONS: isn't a complaint, but I thought all of you would want to know so you can get out that ruler and measure the area out.

Finally, I'm positive you'll like them...and because their surface is so slick and smooth, I feel they will be easy to wash clean.

June 14, 08. I have four of these trays now. Ice is still not sticking to the plastic--it looks like a winner to me.
BYE!

My in-laws just purchased these (not knowing that I ordered them from Amazon) at WM. They left the receipt. I was shocked to find that I paid 5.68 on Amazon and they paid only 1.72 at WM. The same product (number is the same). I'm not sure how good the product is but I must say that I look to Amazon for a fair price and this definitely wasn't.

I had been using a set of ice cube trays from Target that looked exactly like these, except of course they weren't Rubbermaid. After banging them on the counter (and my head against the wall) for a few years I bought these. What a difference! Highly recommended.

H A P P Y....U P D A T E: I have just discovered that these ice-cube trays are one of only four or five types of ice-cube trays sold on Amazon which are B.P.S.-FREE. This means that if you put anything HOT IN THEM, THAT THE PLASTIC WILL N O T LEECH INTO THE LIQUID! (One of the few other B.P.S.-Free ice-cube trays is actually the old, traditional ice-cube tray, made this time not of aluminum, but of stainless steel...which, of course, will never leach plastic into anything! It's just harder to get the ice-cubes OUT of it.) This B.P.S.-Freedom in plastics is important with ALL plastic utensils, I think (the new Vitamix 5200 boasts BPS-free misxing containers, whereas all previous VitaMix models did not have them, etc.) If you're like me, you like to boil your water first before putting it in the ice-cube trays. (It's more like bottled water this way). I'd still recommend letting the water cool off a bit if you can -- ALL ice-cube trays tend to bend convexly, (like an UPSIDE-DOWN "U"), if you put them into the freezer with very hot water in them. Wouldn't you know it, though -- these RUBBERMAID 2867-RD-WHT ice-cube trays, here being reviewed, actually come with a slightly CONCAVE shape, when new, to prevent pssible disasters, (which eventually can break the tray in two). The designers of this wonderful new, B.P.S.-Free Rubbermaid ice-cube tray, sure seem to have thought of EVERYTHING! : )

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O R I G I N A L.....R E V I E W.......:

I have developed an absolute PASSION for ice-cube trays! Maybe it's the sense of INDEPENDENCE one gets as you make ice cubes from your very OWN liquid source. My souce of choice is HME DISTILLED WATER, which I doubt can be used with any automatic ice-cube maker. Then again, I have never bought a refill for the "newfangled" automatic ice-cube maker that came with my new condo's refrigerator.

At any rate, I cherish the one, light green plastic ice-cube tray that came with a "new" refrigerator, (new then, anyway), bought in the early 1960s by my parents. I have two, white, sem-transparent ice-cube trays, which came with the second refrigerator we bought, sometime in the 1970s, or 1980s. Both types make great ice-cubes...IF you're willing to wait for 5 minutes, for the ice inside to melt enough to come out easily. (If you're really in a hurry, one trick I found works well is to run very HOT water in a light stream, over the BOTTOM of this kind of ice-cube tray.) Of course, old-fashioned aluminum ice-cube trays work fine too...and give almost instantaneous ice -- BUT I, at least, often wondered if one should really need the strength of a gally slave, to pull back the lever in the middle of the three rows of cubes, in order to set them, er..."free". (And aluminum ice-cube trays rarely produce uniformly sized ice-cubes....)

After a DISASTROUS experience via "silicone" ice-cube trays, (for which I have also written a review for Amazon -- mine were offered by [...]...but the review stands for ANY ice-cube trays made of
"treacherous" silicone), I happened to spy these other, RUBBERMAID 2867-RD-white" ice-cube trays on Amazon. They seemed expensive -- and were sold singly, and not in pairs. However...THEY WERE NOT MADE OF SILICONE...(Hooray!)...and WERE made by Rubbermaid...which had also made my light-green, and semi-transparent white trays, which came with my parents' old refrigerators They were expensive for ice-cube trays, at $2.49 each...but not, in the course of things, an overly-expensive item.
So, I bought two......

Ever critical of new things, I at first did NOT like the new ice-cube trays when I got them. The solid white of the plastic was obviously not transparent like my old trays....and seemed to be made of slightly thinner plastic, as well. But......when I put water in the trays, something very strange happend,,, Instead of just lying in the trays, as water is wont to do, the water in the new ice-cube trays seemed to form a very slight, but quite noticable, CONVEX top! It was almost as if these ice-cubes-to-be suddenly wanted to become transparent little muffins or something! Hmmm... Before putting the trays in the freezer, I happened to glance at the bottom of the trays. Each cube well was slightly ROUNDED, unlike the squarish-shaped wells of all my former plastic ice-cube trays. Hmmm....(again1) Pots and pans with rounded bottoms are always easier to clean than those with squarish bottoms! I detected a bit of serious thought and careful engineering, from the unknown creators of these new ice-cube trays. Carefully and excitedly, I put the trays in my freezer. And waited....

In about an hour, I went to the freezer again. I gave the ice-cube tray a very slight twist. IMMEDIATELY, the ice cubes came out -- happily, I like to think. I know I was happy! No more waiting for 5 minutes for the ice to thaw enough for it to come out! No more running hot water on the bottom of the tray, (hoping this would not --if done repeatedly-- ruin it). No! These trays produced cubes that came out with the slightet of twists...and, if one waits 30 seconds, with NO twisting at all!

So, these ice-cube trays have made a small dream of mine come true. It's comforting to realize that those who create ice-cube trays have also had the same problems with them that I have had....and also were able to put their expertise and experience, (which, of course, I don't have), to help solve these problems!

Better ice-cube trays are a small, but definite step forward. I greatly thank the unknown engineer(s) who worked so successfully on them. It's amazing to think that in the 1890s, they wanted to CLOSE the patent office, because they thought everything that could be invented, had been invented! Thank goodness THAT didn't happen!

Go to the moon? Yes, we've done that! Women voting? Yes indeed! And we now, (at this date, 30th August, 2008), have had 2 women as vice presidential candidates for major political parties. A woman president cannot be far behind.....

Other dreams? Time-machines? Bringing the dead back to life? Having those presently living live on and on...for 700 years or more? Why not?
Already, we have cured dyptheria, polio and leprosy -- among other ills!
If the spirit of problem-facing, and problem-solving, lives on those talented individuals who have the same wants and desires as everyone else....but who also have the incomparable gifts of intellect and will, to solve them...who knows what wonders may happen in the coming decades, (that is, if we don't blow ourselves up, or pollute the environment to a non-habitable point). As a "realistic optimist", I know good OR bad things can happen in the future. And every time I use these new ice-cube trays, it will reinforce my belief that the good will prevail!

As they say in New York......EXCELSIOR!

Had bought some cheap ice trays, cracked after one week. DEcided to order these based on reviews. They are great. Ice pops right out.

These ice cube trays work perfectly. After purchasing others that do not work well, it was a relief to find ice cube trays that do exactly what they are supposed to.. make ice cubes that can removed easily.

It's hard to believe you could get excited about ice cube trays, but FINALLY -- some that work, release as advertised and don't crack or split! I'm sold on them!