Thursday, March 5, 2009

Making Ice Cube Trays More Fun

I know, I know, people hate when they take an ice cube tray out of the freezer and there's only a couple cubes in there. But this will make it better.

Don't look at a mostly barren ice cube tray as a neglected refill opportunity. Look at it as an opportunity for one of nature's most fun and challenging games.

Do your little twisty-twisty move to get the cube or cubes dislodged, then do your little tray-shake motion to make the cube(s) jump, and try to move the tray itself ever so slightly as to get the cube(s) to land perfectly in the adjacent slot(s).

When you can pull it off, it is one of the most satisfying feelings I can think of. And the more cubes the better.

P.S.

Doesn't refilling a tray that still has one frozen cube left in it somehow seem like a waste of one ice cube? Like all the work it did getting frozen was in vain?