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I love drinking ice water, but I stopped after I found that even when using RO-filtered water in a separate ice cube tray, I was getting getting off tastes in the ice from something that was evidently living in the fridge/freezer.

I don't know if its spores or just odors or what, but I can't seem to get it out of the fridge; I'm pretty sure it's growing on or near the evaporator coils, in an area I can't access.

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I'm putting a dedicated ice machine in my house due to how gross the ice is in a "normal" fridge/freezer.

In a dedicated ice machine, the ice is constantly melting down the drain and being replaced by fresh ice, so it shouldn't get funky like normal ice is. Yes, it's a little wasteful, but our water comes from a surface lake and our sewer drains to a river downstream of the same lake so I can live with it.

I hate old ice cubes which have partly evaporated and apparently absorbed odours from meat and other stuff. Will you find newer ice cubes less gross?

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