I have a side-by-side refrigerator/freezer with an ice and water dispenser built into the door. The ice dispenser has worked well over the years but recently my wife started making smoothies, crushed ice blended with fruit and other healthy stuff, and has been dispensing crushed ice. The crushed ice tends to clog the discharge tube and freeze into a solid mass.

She's started using only cubes and spending a couple extra minutes at the blender but I wondered if there's some magic trick to dispensing crushed ice without clogging.

The machine is a Whirlpool and is at least 12 years old. The kids brought it when they moved in with us for a while and left it as a thank-you present..

Paul