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| Orka Ice Cube Tray, Orange | 
 enlarge | Brand: ORKA
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $10.00
Buy New: $9.79
You Save: $0.21 (2%)
New (4) from $9.79
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 22619
Color: Orange
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 4.3 x 2 x 11
Model: A00009
UPC: 885902000095
EAN: 0885902000095
ASIN: B000R5OMX4
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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 The BEST August 1, 2008
These are the perfect ice cube trays for making baby food. I bought two (one raspberry and one orange) and then after my first batch of food, I bought two more. They are worth the money for the design and function. Wonderful!
Love for homemade baby food February 12, 2008
I use these to store my son's homemade baby food. They work great! They stack wonderfully and the cubes pop out so easy.
 Works fairly well November 29, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall I like this ice cube tray. It was a little harder to remove the cubes than I thought it would be. I had to bang the tray once or twice on the counter and then was able to push each one out from underneath like it's meant to be. Or leave the tray out for a few minutes first. I have only used it thus far for freezing homemade baby food so I don't know if it is easier with regular ice. But I do love that it has a cover. Also, if you push out the cubes upside down, they land in the cover and then I can pour them into a freezer storage bag at all once.
Great tray, but wish slots were a little bigger! November 2, 2007
I bought these mainly for making baby food in after getting the idea from another review, and it has worked nicely for that. But if this is why others will be purchasing it, you should just be aware that each of the holes hold only about 1/2 ounce of pureed food. So if you wanted to give a full 1/4 cup feeding of one type of food, you'd need to pop out like 6 to 8 cubes. My son, however, is still just under 6 months, so I have only been using one cube at a time anyway, defrosting it and then mixing it with rice cereal. So it's worked great to just keep them in the tray in the freezer and pop them out as needed.
As for that aspect of the product, I love it...although I rarely use my hand to push on the bottom to get the cube out. I've become accustomed to getting the cube out by pushing the bottom against the corner edge of my countertop...just easier for me. I think it'll still be fine to use these for baby food even when he eats larger meals, because I will probably end up mixing prefrozen cubes of several different flavors together to make one meal, so the small portion sizes of each kind may actually come in handy for that.
 Getting there but not there yet October 22, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Over the years my wife and I accumulated a mismatched pile of ice cube trays. When we bought a "new" house with a late-model fridge, we ditched the trays in favor of the fridge's automatic ice maker. It turns out that the ice maker took up a third of the freezer and had other issues. The ice maker had to go. So we found ourselves back in the tray market. After some study on Amazon, we bought a pair of the Orka Ice Cube Trays. Our findings:
1. First and biggest finding: you will likely not be able to pop the cubes free using only the flexible silicone bottom membranes on the cube sections. You either must run the tray under warm water or simply do the old flex-the-tray routine you always did with plastic ice trays. The silicone push panels make it easier but they usually won't do the job on their own. I'm a 6 foot man with reasonable hand strength. My 5 foot wife doesn't even try. She hands the tray to me.
2. The top cover is a useful feature. It keeps you from popping the cubes and other bits of ice around the room when you're freeing the cubes from the tray. You loosen the cubes, flip the works over, and you get an open tray full of easily grabbed ice cubes.
3. The forms on the tray cover allow secure stacking of Orka trays. In our crowded freezer this is a good thing.
Conclusions: these are not bad ice trays and they have some nice features. We'll use them. Would we do it over again for $9.95 a copy? Probably not, but I don't yet know of any that are better.
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