How to Make Ice Cubes With an Ice Tray

Most refrigerators come with an automatic ice cube maker. Many of the younger generation, have never seen, or heard of making ice cubes any other way. If by chance, they happen to rent an apartment or a house that comes with an older refrigerator, they may need this information.

Steps
1. Remove empty or half-empty ice tray from freezer, which is usually on one side inside the freezer itself. Inside the tray is another piece, that has open compartments. This is where the ice cubes are formed.
2. Fill a clean tray, with the inner compartments, with cold water. Fill it a little less than to the top, for ease in walking with it to the refrigerator. Too high and it will spill as you walk.
3. Open the refrigerator door wide, so that it remains open, and slowly carry the tray inside the freezer and leave it there.
4. Allow it to completely freeze, probably overnight, before removing the ice cubes.
Tips
1. Substitute other liquids such as juice or soda instead of water to make flavorful ice cubes.
2. Make an ice pop, by filling the ice cube tray, with any flavor juice and inserting a pop stick into the center.
Warnings
1. Make sure to leave some extra space at the top of the compartments in the ice tray when filled with water. Ice takes up more room than water, and may overflow the compartment walls as it freezes, should there not be enough room at the top. This will cause an ice-sheet to form over the individual cubes, and will make it difficult to separate the cubes when removing the ice from the tray.