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Metal ice cube trays with levers

There are 10 comments for this item.

Posted by Susan Crowell at 10:30 am (PDT) on Mon September 7, 2009
Yep, I remember these well!
Posted by Mtg at 5:08 pm (PDT) on Wed September 9, 2009
They could really sting your hand (if your hand was wet)
Posted by sweetnurse64 at 8:27 pm (PST) on Wed March 10, 2010
Oh Yes!! I remember those! I even had them when I first moved to my own place in early 80's! Those things hurt your hand trying to pull them up and I always had to run it under water to "loosen" it!
Posted by shell_belle_54 at 3:26 pm (PDT) on Mon March 15, 2010
found one of these at an antique store and bought it for my mom who STILL does not have ice cube dispenser in the refrig.....
Posted by Bob Wilson Jr at 6:15 am (PDT) on Wed April 21, 2010
Almost every time you yanked the handle up, the cubes shattered into pieces.
Posted by SUBSURF at 7:13 am (PDT) on Fri June 17, 2011
I still have one. It's a double wide one, makes twice as many cubes. I use it too as an extra ice tray in my 2 year old stainless steel Frigidaire. BTW, to avoid the cubes shattering into pieces you simply run some water, from the faucet, over the tray for about 30 seconds before pulling the handle. No more problem.
Posted by paktype at 1:32 pm (PDT) on Wed March 14, 2012
OMG, my mom had these in her old Hotpoint fridge in the early '70s! I haven't thought about them for years. I used to pretend that the lever was a stick shift in my sports car. LOL
Posted by Eubean at 9:02 am (PDT) on Tue April 17, 2012
My father would repeatedly break off the lever in frustration with his big mitts. You could get mild frostbite trying to free the cubes.
Posted by GlenEllyn at 1:41 pm (PDT) on Sat June 16, 2012
We had this same kind, too. I wish they still made them because most of the plastic ones today are just junk. No, I don't have an ice-maker in my fridge. I've always thought ice cubes from an ice-maker taste a little off.
Posted by Moofies at 2:32 am (PST) on Sat January 5, 2013
I still have my mother's from one of our old fridges as a child. I used it up until I got an icemaker in the freezer. This one was a double tray. Lots of cubes.

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