# Hollow Ice Cubes **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [June 4, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224 "2008-06-04T08:51:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/1 "2008-06-04T08:51:20Z")
My freezer recently started producing hollow ice cubes: ![](http://temp.reclipse.net/ice_cube2.jpg) ![](http://temp.reclipse.net/ice_cube3.jpg) Has this happened to anyone else? How do you think that my ice maker managed to make them? ---
**Author:** ![blazes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@blazes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blazes)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/2 "2008-06-04T09:03:45Z")
Mine does that sometimes, but I’ve never actually thought about how it happens. I know that with the trays, if they are in for about half an hour, the outside freezes but the inside is still liquid. If you then tip it over the liquid drains and you get hallow cubes. I would assume it’s pretty much the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/3 "2008-06-04T09:05:26Z")
its the CFCs run for your lives! ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/4 "2008-06-04T09:22:37Z")
> [@blazes](#): > > If you then tip it over the liquid drains and you get hallow cubes. I would assume it’s pretty much the same thing. Yeah, that makes sense since I have yet to find one that doesn’t have a small hole where the melted ice could pour out. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/5 "2008-06-04T15:24:05Z")
is your ice tray a normal ice tray? if it is, where would the inside water go?? ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/6 "2008-06-04T18:37:24Z")
The tray is one of the trays that is fed automatically by my freezer and pushed the new cubes out every half-hour or so as long as the collecting bin below isn’t full. I think the water could have fallen out when the cubes were being pushed out of the tray. ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/7 "2008-06-04T18:39:48Z")
yea probably, looks like 30minutes isn’t enough time! ---
**Author:** ![redelite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dc4da7/32.png) [@redelite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redelite)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/8 "2008-06-04T18:48:50Z")
[quote=fasterthanlight™;2336490]is your ice tray a normal ice tray? if it is, where would the inside water go??[/quote] :lol: I was thinking the exact same thing… ---
**Author:** ![glosrfc](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/glosrfc/32/8334_2.png) [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/9 "2008-06-04T19:30:38Z")
Check the manual for instructions on changing, or cleaning, the water filter. ---
**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/10 "2008-06-04T19:43:59Z")
It also seems to be bleeding. ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/hollow-ice-cubes/262224/11 "2008-06-04T19:49:56Z")
[QUOTE=glosrfc;2336690]Check the manual for instructions on changing, or cleaning, the water filter.[/QUOTE] I actually changed the water filter a few weeks ago. It didn’t start producing hollow cubes until we took out the tray and screw-like attachment that moves the cubes from the container to the hatch in the door. We took out that part because it was leaking, or something. (I wasn’t there at the time) [QUOTE=nobody;2336705]It also seems to be bleeding.[/QUOTE] I was trying to figure out a good way for the ice cubes’ hollowness to show up in a picture, so I crushed some of that cube’s important arteries so that it would bleed a nice, contrasting color. I also tried using food coloring and a laser pointer.