Stinky ice cubes

[ice queen - not]

does anyone know what causes this? I have an ice tray in the freezer but it seems to smell of onions which is strange cos obviously I don't keep onions in my freezer. I only have bread, ice cream and desserts directly above and below.
I do have boxed pizza's but they aren't close to the ice tray. Any ideas? I have today soaked the tray in detergent and then bicarb but it still seems tainted.

[Old Mike]

Try soaking in a dilute solution of Milton.
About 100 cc per litre of water.
If that does not work, discard

[ice queen - not]

Thanks OM.  I have soaked overnight in bicarb and seems to have done the trick. Not easy to discard as part of the freezer. Its one of those trays you fill and tip into fixed dispenser below.

I have found this a problem in the past too. There, the freezer was one with the dispenser on the outside door. We rarely used it as we always seemed to have smelly ice.

Any idea's what actually causes it?

[ice queen - not]

Thanks OM.  I have soaked overnight in bicarb and seems to have done the trick. Not easy to discard as part of the freezer. Its one of those trays you fill and tip into fixed dispenser below.

I have found this a problem in the past too. There, the freezer was one with the dispenser on the outside door. We rarely used it as we always seemed to have smelly ice.

Any idea's what actually causes it?

[yucks]

Thanks OM.  I have soaked overnight in bicarb and seems to have done the trick. Not easy to discard as part of the freezer. Its one of those trays you fill and tip into fixed dispenser below.

I have found this a problem in the past too. There, the freezer was one with the dispenser on the outside door. We rarely used it as we always seemed to have smelly ice.

Any idea's what actually causes it?

There was a thread on this a while ago.

If any food/leftovers have ever been stored in the freezer the ice trays will pick up the smell.  Frozen pizza included.  The minuscule droplets that form and then vapourize through slight thawing/refreezing permeate the plastic.  No amount of soaking the ice tray will fix it.  We don't use the "built in" ice tray for this reason.  One (labour intensive) solution is to keep the ice trays out of the fridge unless you are actively freezing a batch of cubes, which you can then store inside a ziploc bag. 

[ice queen - not]

Thanks yucks.

" If any food/leftovers have ever been stored in the freezer the ice trays will pick up the smell. "


So, this must be a common problem for everyone as I would imagine everyone uses their freezer to store food:-)

I will try transferring all ice cubes once frozen to ziplocks and hope it helps.

[yucks]

So, this must be a common problem for everyone as I would imagine everyone uses their freezer to store food:-)

Ya, I've noticed it plenty of times when people have (kindly) served me ice water at their homes. 

Lots of people have two fridges though, that helps!