Ever have one of those ice cube trays where the ice sticks in there so hard you think you’ll break the tray trying to get the ice out? Well I did. I can’t afford to pay attention let alone buy an ice maker so I thought about it and had an idea. I figure I spray Pam cooking spray on my muffin tray to get muffins out why not try it with the ice tray?

Gross right? LOL.. well the trick is to spray the ice tray down with Pam or something like that and then run it under really really hot water. This only leaves the smallest film which I’m guessing fills in the small micro fishers in the plastic of the ice tray.

I can’t tell you how often you’ll have to repeat this. Might be worth buying new trays from time to time but so far so good. I’ve only sprayed mine once but I haven’t refilled them often enough to give you a time line on how long one application will last.

I hope this proves to be useful information to someone!

(EDIT): Well it’s been 30 days exactly since I tried this little experiment and they are still popping out just as well as the day i first sprayed the ice cube trays with Pam. So if your ice is stuck in the tray Pam and hot water is your friend!

(EDIT2) OK, well the spray lasted about 45 days before I noticed it starting to stick again. I sprayed it again and right back to brand new.. hell better than brand new. I feel like I have a teflon coated ice tray

CONCLUSION: You can certainly put some life back in your ice cube trays with vegetable oil.