Talk:Ice cube/Archive 1

Old discussion
an ice cube is a cube-shaped object made of frozen water used for any purpose (like)(cooling a drink,easeing a pain,eating or cooling you down) is can be used i many differens ways  NSD Student 17:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)NSD Studen

Article said: "Domestic ice cubes will sometimes precipitate white flakes as they melt." I removed "domestic" which in the context of this article means home made, because I don't see why where the cubes are made should make a difference. If anyone has a reason, please clarify. Carax 21:53, 24 July 2005 (UT

India
"In India and other parts of the world, it has traditionally been viewed as unhealthy to drink a libation with ice. Many older Indians still refuse to use it." Are these people insane? Do they really think frozen water is unhealthy? Or has ice been traditionally use with unhealthy drinks, such as alcohol, in India? Also, what do the mean by "drinks" when talking about Americans? Not every drink traditionally calls for ice, including milk and most juices. Captain Jackson 16:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I spent close to 19 years in India, and the closest thing to that statement I can think of is when my grandmother "yelled" at us kids for sneaking too much ice. Something to do with sore throats, brain-freezes and leaving empty ice-trays...  Seriously, I don't think "older Indians" have any problem with ice.  It's a tropical coutry, for crying out loud: ice is a bloody godsend in the summer.  That statement needs a citation or something. --69.158.73.96 15:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

It's because clean water is very hard to find in India... I don't trust restaurants and shit when I go there unless I'm in a big city. Even then, I heard over here it's bad too, so who knows. I've made it a habit to not use ice unless I know it's been made with filtered water.

"ice cube" and "Ice Cube"
I feel strongly that "ice cube" should redirect to the rapper. Who's looking for information about ice cubes?? 72.28.142.217 01:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

We got an issue. When people search for the rapper "Ice Cube", they have to type it with correct grammar, not just in lowercase, like most people would. I think we should make a contents page for "ice cubes". for an example on the content page type in "the game"... --Taurus8 sam 02:48, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge
"Ice cube tray" definitely should be merged with this. --Scaryice 11:17, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * They've been merged. However this is my first merge, so it may be a bit sloppy. --Dangherous 11:55, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

iron
Here's something to research: I eat icecubes all the time and am addicted to them. They also soothe my stomach when it is sore. My doctor told me that one reason why I crave ice so much may be that I have a shortage of iron in me. She said ice cubes contain a lot of iron and that is why I eat them. I don't understand how this can be true. If you have knowledge on this issue, please write something about it here or on my user discussion page. --Daffy100 02:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Possible non-NPOV
"Generally, people would rather have the "cube" style ice cube, but the cresent shapes are less subject to getting stuck in the dispenser." This appears to be a POV statement (the bolded part, at least), and as such I have rewritten (diff) the sentence; if anyone can verify that this is in fact true, please feel free to reinclude the information along with the appropriate citations. --Kyra~(talk) 12:23, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

ICE CUBE TRAYS
We would like to know, why do my icecubes turn into shards of ice instead of normal ice cubes? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shellydee (talk • contribs) 22:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC).


 * try using warm water instead of cold water, Pinothyj 22:44, 13 January 2007 (UTC)…

Merge Crushed ice to Ice Cube
A merger has been proposed by another editor. What do you think? I believe crushed ice as a subject itself is not strong enough to stand on its own and it should be merged. Guroadrunner 10:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

More surface area contact = requires less force?
"Ice cubes made by automatic icemakers are generally longer and thinner, requiring less force to remove them from the tray and thereby reducing the likelihood of the cube becoming stuck in the dispenser."

I figure the ice cubes in automatic dispensers are longer and thinner because of the way the mechanism removes the ice. The longer and thinner shape of the ice would seem to increase the contact area between the ice and the tray, making it actually harder to remove them per se. But the part that pops the ice out of the tray is a row of finger-like projections that rotate once over the ice, contacting the ice on the edge of the 'cube' and pushing it out of the tray. The crescent-shaped ice lends its self to ejection from the tray using that type of mechanism while keeping the ice whole.

If you tried to pop a cube-shaped piece of ice by pushing down on one side of the cube, it would probably break the cube up. There'd need to be a whole different release mechanism for a cube-shaped piece of ice.

I think it’s funny that there’s an article on ice cubes here. I love this site.

“Traditionally, drinks in the United States are served with ice; in Europe they are served with or without ice.”

This statement should be clarified. There are several possible counter-statements to that statement. What kinds of drinks are traditionally served with ice in the US? Alcoholic drinks? Milk? In the US drinks are served with or without ice as well.

I think there may have been a point trying to be made with that statement, but it needs to be made more clear.

Eyknough 03:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Freezer ice
ggggggggggggggggggggggggg I didn't see anything about the ice that comes from the freezer. Maybe I'm just blind but I didn't see it so if you could add it that would be cool. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tmandrake13 (talk • contribs) 03:22, 17 April 2007 (UTC). gggggggggggggggggggg

Low ice quality? + disambiguation
Isn't it time we start cleaning up the text (the one about cubes of frozen water) and remove the worst stuff? For example about indeans and "The scientific way of explaining flexible ice cube trays is, ... “

I think the beginning of this page "For the American rapper and actor, see Ice Cube. For other uses, see Ice cube (disambiguation)." is not very good. The disambiguation page lists 3 things, of which the IceCube Neutrino Detector is the most interesting to me. Given that the term ggggggggggggIce Cube is used for different things (of which two are cubes of ice and one is not) I think it would be fair to come to a full disambiguation (one including the Neutrino Detector that is). Some people may think that the rapper is more important than the Neutrino Detector, or even the block of frozen ice in your drink, but that will vary a lot depending on who you are, where you live etc. Lundberj 23:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Randomly Curious
Just wondering, why is this page locked to new/unregistered users? Was it vandalism? Who would vandalize a page on ice cubes? The makuta 04:58, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, that is weird.--AnneliseW 13:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I would.

Randomly Curious 2
Is this page a joke? Who would actually spend their time writing an encyclopedic article about ice cubes? People, please, get a girl friend! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.72.161 (talk) 02:35, 4 November 2007 (UTC) why don't you? your the one writing random comments on a page you see as pointless —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.138.54.88 (talk) 00:45, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Ice Cube (rapper)
Just wondering, but isn't it clear that at least 95% of the people that type in "ice cube" are going to be looking for the rapper instead. So why is this the primary page that it directs to. I know that if you type it as "Ice Cube" it comes up but most people type "ice cube" and I know there's a link on top but come on...... Couldn't this page be moved to "Ice cubes" instead or something. Dillon90 (talk) 21:58, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Article name
Why in the world is the (item) used here? The page already includes hatnotes to the rapper and to a disamb page. "Item" is redundant and silly, particularly because plain ice cube redirects here. I will change this shortly unless someone objects. Jgm (talk) 00:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Messing with Article
Clearly someone has been messing with the article. Right now it reads: "Ice coobs are frozen cube shaped food, they taste good in penibutter and jelli sandwickes". Now as much as I love "ice coobs" in "penibutter" and "jelli sandwickes", someone should fix this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.182.146.25 (talk) 23:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a section on freezies?
They're pretty popular Lhw1 (talk) 09:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Modifications
Though recorded in the history, figured I should probably mention it here as well. I removed the Gorrie entry under ice cube tray and made his own section. Gorrie never invented an ice cube tray. Also, I added an image of his old-school freezer. Moreover I fixed "some" of the grammar on the page. Though, the text should be proofread and rewritten so that it does not reflect the horrific state of our North American educational systems!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soldier.pitre (talk • contribs) 18:30, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Fecal matter & E. Coli claim unsourced
"Recent demand for premium, safe drink ice has created a new niche market for disposable ice trays which can be cost- effectively transported or stored at room temperature, whilst protecting the consumer from contaminants such as fecal matter, E. Coli or fertilizer residue commonly found in mis-handled ice cube trays and un-safe water supplies." This is not supported in the article cited.Nard111 (talk) 13:39, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Ditto. It's clearly advertising, not NPOV and unsupported so I'm going to edit it. Tomcrocker (talk) 13:53, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

plural
can the title of this article at least be changed to Ice Cubes to prevent confusion with the rapper? —Preceding unsigned comment added by KingLouse (talk • contribs) 09:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Picture of fake ice cubes
I reorganised the page to a more logical structure, and in the process noticed that this image is a photo of fake ice cubes, which is not a topic covered anywhere in the article except in the caption for this photo. Can we remove the image? ~ Kimelea (talk) 18:37, 28 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Okay, I take that as a yes. :) ~ Kimelea (talk) 16:14, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Do ice cubes preceed refrigeration ?
Since natural ice harvested from a lake must have some debris in it, it would be interesting to know if people had devices use natural ice to freeze purer water for putting directly in drinks.

Tashiro (talk) 04:54, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Seems unlikely. (Making ice cubes in an ice box would melt a lot of the ice you'd be using to cool the drinks.) In any case, feel free to look for sources. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 13:19, 25 August 2014 (UTC)