Even if the water produced by your household water source tastes good as drinking water, it probably tastes and smells a bit unpleasant when frozen into ice cubes. A water filter can reduce the taste and odor problems.
Note… Ice cubes also pick up odors from the inside of the freezer and refrigerator--especially from open food containers. To minimize that problem, empty the ice cube bin from time to time, and start with a fresh set of ice cubes.
Usually. Most refrigerators made in the past 20 years are wired to accommodate an add-on ice maker. Consult our "Parts Order Center" to find the correct ice maker for your appliance.
Maybe the ice maker is turned off. Look for the thin, coat-hanger-like metal bar on the right side of your ice maker. When this bar is up, the ice maker is off. When the bar is down, the ice maker is on.
During normal ice maker operation, the bar is up (the ice maker turns off) while the unit drops ice into the holding bin. The bar comes down (the ice maker turns on) when all the ice has been dropped. See our "Troubleshooting Guide" section for more details.
If the bar is up, gently lower it to begin making more ice.
Change it whenever you start detecting a disagreeable taste or odor. If you use ice frequently, you probably need to change the filter every 6 months. If you use ice infrequently, you can probably change it only once a year.
Your ice maker turns out a new batch when the water in the ice maker has frozen--usually in 75 to 120 minutes.
Exactly how long a batch of ice takes depends on the freezer temperature, the temperature of the room in which the freezer is located, the humidity level, and so on.
You can't. The cloudiness is caused by entrapped air bubbles. The clear ice cubes you get at a store or a restaurant are rapidly frozen by commercial equipment that traps little or no air. Your relatively slower-freezing residential in-freezer ice maker traps air bubbles in the ice.
