We make ice with trays. I don’t understand buying it if you can make it for (nearly) free. What I really want is a good ice shaver and a few bottles of different syrups so I can do shaved ice cones. Vanilla, cherry, orange, and lime ought to be enough to start. Can anyone recommend a good ice shaver?
I use ice bags - those neat little plastic bags which you fill with water, freeze, and then you can tear the ice cubes out of them. I don’t use ice that often, but it’s awful to want some and not have any to hand.
We love ice, both i water and in other drinks It’s a rule around here that the person who empties the ice container has to refill it (and the ice cube trays).
This sentiment is not universal. When I visited Ireland and Scotland I got no ice uness I specifically requested it, and then it was learly a bother to the hotel or the bar. Hotels don’t have ice machines. Convenince stores don’t sell ice in bulk as they do here (They do sell peat, but that’s another story). The only place I got ice inb my drink was at a Subway’s – an American chain fast-food joint. (And the drink was the only reason we stopped in there).
Nor is it universal in this country. I picked up a cookbook in the Wilds of Utah which had a section railing against the modern use of ice in water, and the drinking of cold beverages. (I note that this is not the typical Utah attitude – I think there’s a 7-11 on every other block in SLC, and you can get all the ice you want in your Big Gulp.)
I make ice in the freezer, but I don’t use it for soft drinks, only for ice water.
I make ice and use it for everything that, well, calls for ice.
I make ice and drink everything as cold as possible.
Ice in everything is an American thing. I like ice sometimes, but the trays take up too much room in my small freezer. When American friends have visited though, they’ve been aghast at the unavailability of ice - but they were also amazed that so few people over here have trash compacters in their sinks.
Yes, ice is extremely American. I’ve gotten weaned off it since living abroad, but I didn’t drink it much to begin with. I always ordered drinks without ice in the States. What the hell was the point? The drinks were freezing anyway, and there ain’t no way in hell I’m going to be drinking anything more than a half liter (16 oz) so it doesn’t get cold. I drink very quickly. Besides, if they’re too cold, it covers up the flavor too much. I love the taste of a chilled Coke, but I can barely taste an iced-over Coke.
But I’ve finally succumbed. With the recent heat wave of 35-40 degree temps I’ve bought an ice cube tray. Woo hoo! But I only use ice for drinks I’ve just bought which are at room temp. Otherwise, they get watered down too much and freeze my throat.
ice good. sometimes the ice melts before the beverage is finished. then more ice must be added.
i have 4 tupperware ice cube trays. they have cool little covers with little lids in them. that way you can fill the tray without taking off the cover. no mess going to the freezer either. no icky “freezer taste” in the cubes.
tupperware good, ice good.
Must have ice. Preferably run through the ice crusher. Sometimes I splurge and go get my ice chest filled up with shaved ice.
Fruit juice over shaved ice. Mmmm…
I don’t like ice in drinks, usually, because it bumps against my lips and teeth when I drink. However, I find enough other uses for ice that I always have it (like making kool aid… when you don’t want to wait for it to cool down, ice is good… annoying, but good.)
My parents alwaus have several trays of ice in the freezer. I don’t know who uses it, but someone does.
Ice Yes. (it’s over 90 out there fer chrissake)
We must have 10 trays in the freezer right now. 2 of us are big water drinkers, so the waterdown factor dosn’t come into play there. I’m an iced tea drinker. So I remember to brew the stuff strong and meebe a bit bitter so when it does get over the ice, it dosn’t lose it’s flavor.
Sometimes I run up to the Clark station at the corner. They have ice that is so wonderfully crunchy I have to have it. I know it sounds silly but the texture is so much different than the ones in the freezer,I can crunch my way through a glass of ice quicker than I can drink the DR.P poured into it. It’s said that we ice chompers are either deficient in iron, or horney.
AARRGGHH! to all of you who leave that LAST cube in the tray. Refill it ya lazy bastards. Tray only half full? well refill it anyhow! No I don’t care that it isn’t empty yet. I want a full tray for this BIG glass of tea. And I really am SICK up and FED with being the only one to fill these things!AARRGGHH!