Do you make ice?

I visited my sister and her husband in their new home this past week. I don’t drink beer and I wasn’t in the mood for a soft drink - I just wanted ice water.

They didn’t have ice. They don’t use ice. They drink their sodas out of the cans straight from the fridge.

No ice. None. Weird.

Or is it? Do you make ice? Or do you maybe buy it by the bag (like another of my sisters)? Or do you not consider it a necessity?

As for me - we have an ice maker that dispenses whole or crushed ice, plus cold water. But even if I had to fill my own ice trays, I’d have ice readily available.

Ice trays. Ice readily available. Ice good.

I got ice. Every winter. Regular as clockwork. :wink: :smiley:

No ice here. I only drink Sprite, right out of the can.

Mrs. H drinks room temp bottled water and expensive wine.

Haj

It’s been too warm lately to not have ice ready.

I see nothing odd about drinking refrigerated soda without ice. After all, it’s cold from being in the fridge. Putting ice in it seems redundant, and makes your soda watery if you don’t drink it all soon.

If it’s unrefrigerated soda, then yeah, ice is good.

I try to let my freezer make my ice for me. :wink:

I don’t use ice myself, but I keep it on hand for the benefit of guests who might like it. Kinda like coffee or sweet n’ low.

Ice is good, can’t have iced tea without it. My refrigerator makes mine for me but whenever I’m at my Mom’s, I fill trays.

I have 2 trays going but take directly from the trays so sometimes there can be just 2 cubes (one per tray).

In the winter I have a sprinkler spray water to make a big mound of ice (just for personal enjoyment :wink: ) which is what I thought the OP was but it’s really not all that exciting afterall.

I typically drink my drinks straight from the fridge. Ice in soft drinks always just gets in the way. When I have a “drink” drink, though, I often like a little ice in it. No more than two cubes. So, personally, I don’t find drinking drinks without ice odd (I even ask for no ice in my drinks when I grab fast food. It takes up space, waters down my drink, and besides…the machines are refrigerated, so it’s already cold).

But the best bet is to get a refridgerator with an ice maker. From there, ice trays are the best. For the past year, my lazy roomate and lazy self never got around to buying ice trays, so I got in the habit of grabbing these little plastic containers from the local grocery store, making ice in those, and whenever I needed some, wrapping the container in a rag and pounding it with a mallet. Very theraputic.

I have an ice maker in my freezer. Since I drink my pop right from the fridge (sometimes straight from the can, sometimes poured into a glass) and my juice the same way, I don’t use ice for that, but I like to have a couple of cubes in my water (even coming from the water dispenser in the fridge) and my roommates and guests use it, too.

I keep my ice trays full at all times, even in the winter (I still have my drinks with ice in them then). One of my biggest “little” peeves is finding an empty ice tray in the freezer.

When I’m at home I always put ice in my glass, and replace it as it melts. Of course, since I don’t keep my soft drinks in the fridge, that’s the only way I get a drink at anything other than room temperature.
At restaurants I tend to order drinks without ice, since otherwise I often get a glass of ice with about two ounces of liquid in it, and since they usually serve beverages cold anyway I don’t need the ice.

I must have ice. I need it for my drinks and for my Iced Tea Pot.

My hubby has incurred my wrath enough times now and doesn’t leave an empty tray in the freezer. The worst was when he’d hide an empty tray under a tray that only had a couple cubes left. :mad:

Sheri

The icemaker in the fridge (a 1980 special) here got all fustigated about two years ago. It was “fixed”, but became prone to producing hollow ice cubes and other such anomalies. In the interim before convening the Household Appliance Purchasing Committee the ice cube trays were brought out of storage and put into use. The committtee never met. The trays are still in use. The one who empties a tray and does not refill it is damned.

Ice maker in the frig at home and in the RV.

No ice!?

What do you do if somethings too hot and you want to drink it now? What do you do for 1st degree burns? What do you do if you’re having sex and need something to slide provocativly down someone’s spinal column?

There’s a million good reasons to have ice.

I also must have ice. Life is not worth living without knowing that there is plenty of ice in the frig.

:frowning: [sup]Then we went to England, Italy and France. There is more ice in my frig right now than I saw in all three countries![/sup]

I don’t like ice in my drinks, it ends up just watering it down which does not taste good, and generally the drink is cold enough already.

I used to attempt to use ice trays, but more often than not, they’d just sit there until eventually all the ice had evaporated, at which point I’d need to clean and refill them. Which seemed like too much work, so I stopped filling them in the first place. The only time I regret it is when I’m making frozen drinks, and then I’ll often just add water and stick the blender in the freezer (which is nicer to my blender anyway.)

I detest filling up ice trays. I’m a klutz by nature and end up spilling at least half of it before I make the long trip from the faucet to the freezer. My wife and I actually began buying bagged ice from the local quick store and keeping it in the freezer and using that, replacing it with a new one when it would run out. We recently got a new fridge with a built in icemaker. Oh my! What freedom, what luxury. I gotta have ice. My wife eats it all day long, yes she literally eats ice as a substitute for drinking water.

I have two ice trays. I have ice in coke, G&T, amaretto and blended whisky. My SO has ice in coke and in milk.