Okay, I don’t think we’ve done this one. In the spirit of toilet paper over-or-under, shoes on or off in the house and other things you had no idea you had an opinion about until someone gave an obviously wrong answer…
How do you make ice at home?
(multi-choice poll to come)
I keep my drinks in a special refrigeration machine that I have installed in my kitchen, so no need for watering the flavour down with ice. This “fridge” is quite the fancy doodad; it’s also a great place to keep foods fresh.
pffft. See, a wrong answer already! 
Actually, I keep drinks in the fridge AND use ice. Stays cold longer that way.
I’ve never not had an ice maker, except in college.
I hate ice in my drinks, and we never make it. If for some reason we need ice (say, brining a turkey or other large ice-bath things) we buy a bag at the gas station.
We use more ice than a household of two adults and one pre-teen reasonably should. Especially given that the pre-teen prefers her drinks straight out of the can, room temp or a little cooler!
My freezer has an ice maker, but unfortunately, the whole kitchen would have to be rearranged for the fridge to be close enough to a water source to hook it up. . .
We keep six ice trays in the freezer, which I empty en masse (once in the morning, once in the evening) into the ice bin. Then I refill them, one at a time, stack them as I fill them, put them back in the freezer.
We keep a water filtration pitcher in the fridge for drinking water, but I just fill the ice trays from the tap.
I use the Chuck Norris method: stare at a tray full of water until it freezes in fear.
I have an automatic icemaker - finally!!! It has a water filter on it. It took me 50 years to get a dang icemaker…
Fridge has automatic icemaker which is connected through a filter. I drink water from bottled water via a water cooler.
Fill the ice trays as they’re emptied, use ice from the trays. In the winter, usually.
In the summer, freeze four ice trays at once, empty them into the holder. Refill the trays and dump them again when the holder gets low.
I’m the one who uses the most ice, because, like WhyNot, I like ice in my drinks even when they’re cold to start with. The rest of the family will drink them from the fridge or room temperature. Yuck.
Tap water in trays, cause I didn’t want to pay to have a water line dropped. I drnk Brita filtered water.
Our fridge barely fits our food, it’s so small, so things like soda don’t go in there. We rarely drink soda, but when we do it’s room temperature so we use ice (usually there’s some liquor in there as the reason for drinking the soda, actually). We have an ice machine and water in the door of the freezer, which are connected through a filter. Oh, and it’s yummy well water to begin with. Mmmmmm.
In San Jose Ca I make it a point to never drink tap water.:smack:
Our fridge has a filter, allowing for great cold water and a wonderful ice maker that we use year round. Started a thread about usage of ice recently and was surprised at how many people don’t like ice in their drinks.
My SO and I both pretty much fill our glasses with ice for almost everything. My guess is that we go through easily 6 trays of ice (if we still made them that way) per day.
Maybe this is a genetic desire for ice in drinks - my aunt used to put ice in her beer!
Ice maker/cold water dispenser in the door to the freezer. Filters the water used to make ice and drink. I keep several water bottles around that I will fill before leaving the house. I would prefer not to bother buying bottled water and reuse my own bottles, and my own water but if we are out and run out of house water we will buy water. neither of us likes soda, and frequently coffee bought out sucks - there is really only one convenience store that makes good coffee [they are scrupulous about cleaning and maintenance on the coffee machine]
We travel with a couple of large thermos and make our own coffee and bring it with us. I can remember my mom and dad doing the same when I was about 5, 6 years old and we were driving from the house in Perry NY to the grandparents summer house in Canada. Mom would also make up a bag of assorted sandwiches, it being the early 60s there wasn’t McDonalds or other fast foods [except for diners] on the way.
The nice thing about driving home from the parents house after thanksgiving is hte turkey sandwiches =)
I find I can taste my drinks better without ice. If it’s too cold, it seems to lose its flavour.
First, I re-read the opening sentence of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”…
I have a Brita faucet filter, and i fill my trays with that. I have been known to buy a bag of ice in the summer, though.
I remember that the ice-cube trays smell like the inside of my freezer, and then I send my husband to the grocery store for ice.
Filtered water line in the fridge that both dispenses cold water and feeds the icemaker. Not only do I use ice in just about everything I drink but the dogs consider ice cubes a wonderous treat. They come running every time they hear the ice maker. My husband only rarely uses ice though.