I fill my dishpan with warm sudsy water, push my blue ice trays under and let them soak. :)

Then I use a bottle brush to clean, rinse them, let them air dry, and re use them.

Moni... who likes to keep things simple

Clean my ice maker - LOL! I don't!

I do sanitize my dispenser on the outside of the 'fridge. I spray it with Clorox Cleanup and let that set for several minutes. I then wipe it down and dispense water and ice for a bit to clear any other residual cleaner out.

Am I supposed to clean my ice maker? Never done it.

I just use a little dish soap and some baking soda when cleaning anything from inside my refrigerator.

I've never done it either. Maybe I should. I'll think about that.

I haven't cleaned mine yet but I have had it less than a year. It is usually just me using it. I did read that the little tray under the dispenser can be put in the dishwasher, along with the microwave turntable and the stove grates.

Ah, the 'little tray' -- that doesn't stand up to cleaning! GE must plan for these to fail, along with the handles on their microwaves. I just paid over $70 for a replacement M/W handle -- made of cheap plastic. Wonder how long before this one breaks.

I merely rinse out the ice storage bin. I do this when an 'iceberg' develops in there and I'm dumping it all out to start fresh. We have good water here, and there's an internal water filter. The bin is almost certainly cleaner than the fridge/freezer shelves.

I do as you do...take out the ice drawer and wash it in the sink.

It does tend to get icky in there if you don't take it out and clean it, sometimes the minerals from the water create a residue and some parts of the ice maker can start to rust and leave rust stains and some old ice cubes that have sat there for a long time get icky. I take mine out and put in my sink and wash it with hot water and dish wash detergent then dry it out and put back in.

I had the GE repair man here yesterday about mine. I have not had my fridge very long. I started finding chunks of clear plastic shards, very pointed and sharp, in my glass of drink. I could not see it at al because it was clear so luckily for me I only drink with a straw I did not swallow any and get stuck in my throat and die!! But it could happen easily and if a child got one it could really be damaging. The repair man was blown away he had never seen anything like that happen. I told him this was a very serious design flaw and they needed to correct it immediately because someone was going to end up suing GE. He told me I would have had every right to from what I had experienced, and I was right it was going to happen.

What the problem is that in the ice maker there is what they call a worm screw which is the length of the ice bin and it turns and has like a fin that is spiraled around the rod that pushes the ice from the back to the front and into the door shoot. That fin is made of clear plastic and it is apparently not strong enough and broke in to pieces when it encountered clumps of ice cubes and the plastic just came out with the ice.
I had no idea till I went to pour out my water and clank something hit in my sink, it was a chunk of plastic about the size of a business card. then more and more of them kept coming out. While he was here he found a huge chunk of it stuck up in the grinder that makes the crushed ice, it had been grinding on that piece of plastic so much it had cut grooves all in the plastic and I am sure all those shards went out with the ice and I probably did swallow those.

The man was just astounded. He was taking notes and said he was going to present this to the design team immediately so it could get immediate attention. He was really freaked out he said I am just imagining you here alone take a drink, a chunk of that gets stuck in your throat you can not call for help, I said yep and my husband finds me dead. He was sweating!

It really is a scary thing. IF they leave it plastic it needs to be a much stronger plastic and for heavens sake color it some bright color that can be seen in the ice or in a drink! I think it should be stainless steel so it can hold up and not rust.

so he ordered me an entire new one to be put in. He said till then just reach in for your ice cubes, I said well that is what I have been doing!

So while washing you might just check on yours and see if it has plastic parts like that and make sure everything is intact!

I told him GE could reward me for being so honest with a new dishwasher or stove either one would be fine LOL