LeeYean Silicone Mini Ice Cube Trays 3 Pack, 160 Crushed Ice Cube Molds Easy Release Small Ice Cube for Chilling Whiskey Cocktail, Flexible Stackable and Durable Soft Mold Storage Containers, BPA Free

I love these! These make any drink 10x better! I’ve used them for about a year, and let me share what I wish I would’ve known sooner, as these take some work.First, you need to have about 10-15 of these trays handy to even partially fill up a bin like I did in the first photo. If you don’t want to dedicate 10 minutes to do this task every time, then this product isn’t for you. If you don’t want to remove the ice from the trays in advanced and instead do so each time you get a drink, don’t bother. It’s too much work to remove ice from one tray at a time; they need to be done in batches with at least 10 at a time. Also, for removal, you’ll need an ice bin and a scoop.After removing them from the freezer, thaw the trays for about five minutes. This is optional, but it may make things easier. After that, wring them out like you would a washrag and shake the cubes into an ice bin. I do this in the sink because not all of them will make it into the bin.Now, a lot of people complained how they couldn’t remove every ice cube. People… There are like 160 small cubes in these trays! If you have ten, that’s well over 1,000! Don’t stress over removing every single cube… If it’s too much work, move onto the next tray. Lol. In over a year, I have *never* removed every cube from a tray before.Now, this next part is important! If you don’t do this, all of your hard work will be ruined. Whenever your bin is full of ice (okay, it won’t be full, it probably takes about 30 trays to fill an entire bin lol), place it into the freezer. Next, set a timer for five minutes… After the time passes, open the freezer again and give the ice bin a good shake.Earlier, while you were dispensing ice, all of the cubes melted a very small amount. Therefore, all of the ice will freeze together into a single block if the bin isn’t shaken! You may want to do this again after another five minutes…. It greatly varies depending on your freezer, but the key is to make sure the ice fully freezes again, but *without* freezing to one another. You can refill the trays or something while waiting for this time to pass.Last part. When it comes to cleaning, *do not* make the same mistake I did and leave these in stagnant water with other dishes. Dirt will essentially glue to the silicon and will create dirty ice! Gross!! If you have to clean them though, I found success placing them into a sink and fully covering them with a degreaser, like Comet. After letting the trays sit in a degreaser for ten minutes, I poured boiling water over them and let it soak for another 10 minutes. Then, I rinsed the trays with a strong water pressure to fully remove any leftover dirt. Good as new!I promise, this isn’t as much work as it sounds. Dispensing about 15 ice trays into a bin will take ten minutes + five minutes of waiting before giving the bin a good shake in the freezer. I only have to dispense the trays every 2-3 days or so. It isn’t much work at all, especially if you just keep the trays clean.

My partner and I got these because of our obsession with tiny ice. Once it arrived we washed and got ready to use it the next day...to say the least it was not that easy. The tray is hard to fill because it is unstable when picking up. The water would overflow and not actually fill the little spaces.After what seemed like forever to finally fill, it was placed in the freezer which didn't take too long since the trays are so tiny. Let me tell you...removing these little suckers from the trays was a battle. They were so hard to pop out, some were pretty much melting in my hands, the ones I got out were great but definitely too much work for little ice =(.Overall cute trays but not the ones I really needed in my life. Currently using them as little frozen treat trays for my pups yogurt snacks.

I got these thinking that I would used them often to cool down hot tea in small increments, and truly, they can be used for that purpose. However, the ice cube trays are not that easy to fill, especially if you want to fill them with something other than water. The ice cubes take some work to remove. You'll need to use a little force. And finally, the ice trays are wobbly so you have to find a small serving tray to place them on in order to get them into the freezer. The most disappointing part was that it's hard to make little square blocks of ice, because filling the tray requires several passes under the faucet. Then some are still not filled and others are overfilled. The ones that are overfilled merge with their neighbors and you get a block of ice on one side with individual pieces of ice on the other. It would require a eye dropper to get it just right, but it did not come with an eye dropper and I don't have that kind of time.

Flexible but sturdy material. The ice is hard to get out.

Where to start...Product Durability: 5/5 Stars (Good Job On That!)Cuteness: 5/5 Stars (Adorable Little Cubes!)Everything Else 0/5 (Lord Help Us All!)So let me take you on an adventure of what I went through with these (so-called) ice cube trays. After first opening I was a little disappointed on how small they were. Each tray will make enough ice for about 1 glass of water, so I can see why this was packaged as a 3-count. I washed them first and I must say...do not wash these with running water, just thrown them in the dish washer. Water flew all over the place and turned the whole sink area into a water park. So then I tried filling them which is a feat in itself and wastes so much water because the squares are so tiny that the air pockets prevents it from filling so you have to fill very very painfully slowly. You'll waste approx 1/2 to 1 gallon of water trying to fill these. Next I discovered you can't fill them in the sink because of the silicone material bends and you spill out half the water trying to get it to the freezer so instead I used a flat plate to sit them on and filled slowly with a measuring cup. It takes about 3 minutes to fill each one. Then I found that because of the silicone material, it takes 8-12 hours for them to freeze because silicone insulates the water preventing it from freezing normally. Then for the real fun, removing the cute little square cubes. It actually wasn't that bad; I found a trick is that you have to fold the tray completely in half backwards and roll the cubes out over a very large bowl because they do fly out and you'll end up losing some to the floor. Once you take the tray out of the freezer you have to remove them from the tray as quickly as possible because silicone is an insulator and the tiny cubes begin to melt as soon as you take them out, which is also why they are hard to remove due to the suction. Because of this quick melting, the cubes become one-time-use, don't bother trying to make extra and putting back in the freezer in a container to use later because they just become a giant frozen brick (trust me I tried). I really tried to make these work by making 6 batches of ice so far, but after each one I got more and more annoyed on how much of a waste of time this is for such a small about of ice along with the waiting game of the water freezing...I just can't take it anymore...it's punishment to have to use these...what did I do to have to go through all this aggravation...I just wanted some tiny little cubes to make my iced coffee with.

I love the size and the durability and all, but geez Louise.... Getting those suckers out is a workout on its own. Plus you gotta be quick if you don't want it to melt.That is the only issue I have with this product.If any of ya'll have the trick to remove these cubes from the tray, pls let me know :)

i create bulk cooking staples like ginger, garlic paste and freeze them. Thinking if quantity i would require at a time, using regular ice cube was painful as i had to cut them before using. This mould solves the issue easily. The cubes come out easily as u can twist the mould easily.Apart from funky smell in opening which didn't go completely even after wash, I think they are fantastic. I hope the smell goes away completely in couple of washes.

Filling these up and removing them is such a pain but I love the size of these! I wanted bite-able size ice cubes that I could fill with low-calorie drinks for the summer and have a little treat that I could eat with a spoon and these definitely do the trick! (P.S. for a low-calorie frozen dessert, try freezing chocolate almond milk with sweetener in these - you get a nice fudgesicle kind of treat out of it for less than 30 calories - they're tiny so they're not hard to bite at all - they just sort of melt easily in your mouth)

Though it's extremely difficult to get out the icecubes, I can see why. There might be an easier way out there of making ice cubes like this, but for now, I have to pay the price for wanting specific nieche icecubes. Some people complain of a chemical smell and taste after a while, and that's because the silicone is getting freezer burnt. There's a way for you to fix that and go right back to making ice. So far it hasn't broken, although when I'm trying to get the ice out, it seems close to ripping.

Okay, it's a bit more work than regular cubes, but what can you expect? Filling it takes a bit of time and you have to be pretty careful getting them into the freezer and yes, taking them out take a bit of work (just roll it in your hands, flip it upside down and use your fingers to push out from the bottom), but if you want little square cubes, they work exactly as you would expect.