Patience is that elusive virtue required for the heroic mission of filling an empty ice tray with water. The finesse of sliding it back into the freezer? Let’s just say it’s akin to trying to herd a clowder of cats into a carrier, much like a scene straight out of a stoner comedy movie.
But fear not, for TikTok swoops in like a superhero with choreographed hacks, proving that filling ice trays can be as exciting as a dance challenge if you squint hard enough!
According to a post on the social network that doubles as an eternal fount of kitchen wisdom, it turns out that you’ve probably been filling up your ice cube tray incorrectly for your entire life.
Am I just dumb or did nobody else know this either?
Turns out that we shouldn’t be dumping water into each individual ice cube slot that so rudely splash back at us, but into the spaces between them. By aiming your sink at the point where four corners of ice cube reservoirs intersect, the tray acts at a channel to direct the water to where it needs to go.
Your mileage with this technique will vary, of course. Not every ice cube tray was designed with this approach in mind, though the rectangular two row tray is perhaps the closest thing to the platonic form of an ice cube tray.
It’s also not clear if this approach saves you all that much time, since it’s not like the water flows any faster. Still, it’s a more elegant—maybe even oddly soothing—alternative to what you’ve probably been doing.
