# Ice Ice Baby, Or Do You Regularly Use Ice in Your Home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2015, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969 "2015-05-13T20:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/21 "2015-05-13T22:38:04Z")
I don’t have an icemaker. I buy big bags of ice at the grocery store or gas station (in fact, in South Texas, convenience stores are often referred to as “ice houses” or "ice stations). Having a couple of bags of ice in the freezer makes me very happy. Pretty much all I drink with it is water and iced tea. I’m a simple woman. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/22 "2015-05-13T22:54:10Z")
I really only drink beer at home, so I don’t have much use for it, but when I’m not at home I like a _lot_ of ice in my soft drinks; I like the cup filled all the way to the top. I just like my cold drinks to be _cold_. Our fridge has an ice maker, but I never hooked it up. We just don’t use much ice at home, and it gives us a little more room for other stuff in the freezer. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/23 "2015-05-13T22:58:17Z")
I put ice in everything I drink, even coffee. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/24 "2015-05-13T23:14:33Z")
We have an icemaker, and it’s pretty much a necessity. My husband likes tons of ice in his drinks. I’ll fill my glass 1/4-1/3 with ice before adding my beverage. I hate when my drinks get too watered down, but spousal unit doesn’t seem to mind. So yes, we definitely use the stuff regularly. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/25 "2015-05-13T23:25:29Z")
American and almost never use ice at home. I may or may not have one ice tray in the freezer right now. Who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/26 "2015-05-13T23:29:09Z")
The fridge that came with our condo had an icemaker, which had leaked and been disconnected at some point before we moved in. We tried keeping ice in there but the cubes kept shrinking before we used 'em and space in there soon became a premium, so we bought fake ice instead: plastic cubes containing some sort of freezable stuff. We recently bought a new fridge with no icemaker. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/27 "2015-05-13T23:33:39Z")
Our new refrigerator has an icemaker in the freezer, but it is not near a water supply so we don’t use it. (We couldn’t find one without an ice maker.) We do have three ice trays and an ice bucket in the freezer. I always use ice for my iced tea I drink with dinner but usually drink soda from a can, though I prefer it with ice. Just too lazy to carry around the can and a glass. I usually drink water with ice also at home. Warm soda is awful. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/28 "2015-05-13T23:42:13Z")
I don’t use ice very much. With scotch, about once a week at the most. Otherwise, I don’t feel the need. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/29 "2015-05-13T23:43:05Z")
ice, ice, ice, all day ice. i don’t have an ice maker, i have many ice trays. big square cubes, to mini cubes, titanic ice, christmas trees, tiki, tupperware, etc. love the fred line of kitchen products. i also have the death star and the frozen han solo from think geek. ---
**Author:** ![Dravin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dravin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dravin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/30 "2015-05-13T23:52:42Z")
I don’t have an ice machine and my wife and I go through enough ice that keeping it up with it through ice trays would be a royal pain so we’re regularly buying 22 lb (10 kg) bags of ice that we keep in a chest freezer out in the garage. Unless it’s alcoholic I always have ice in my drink. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/31 "2015-05-14T00:02:55Z")
I thought **Arch Trout** was nuts when I read that thread. Now I think maybe Americans are nuts. 😃 We have two ice trays somewhere. I’ll dig them out, maybe, for the three or four days a year that might be pushing 90. Then lose them again until next year. As long as drinks are cold from the refrigerator, that’s all I need. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/32 "2015-05-14T00:07:41Z")
I like ice in my water, or pretty much any cold drink that isn’t fruit juice (I’m not much of a drinker of pop, beer, or white wine - if I drink pop or other drinks with added sugar like lemonade, or iced tea or coffee, it has ice. Beer and white wine get no ice). We have a fridge with an ice maker. When the ice maker in the old fridge died, I was pretty bummed. If cold drinks are actually cold, I will drink them without ice, but I really do prefer it. One of our cats, Natasha, loves ice cubes as much as life itself. She will come running if she hears the ice maker and will whine until someone gives her a fresh bowl of ice water. In fact, it doesn’t even work if I fill her bowl first, and then my glass - she wants the most recently dispensed ice. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/33 "2015-05-14T00:24:03Z")
We love ice. I think having an ice maker is one of life’s great luxuries. My kid makes an iced coffee drink every day. We drink ice tea, soda, water all with ice. My dogs love ice cubes as “snacks”. We can’t open the freezer to even take some meat out without them running for an ice cube. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/34 "2015-05-14T00:54:09Z")
We use enough ice that we buy it bagged even in the winter. Mostly in beverages (including water) and sometimes for aches and pains. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/35 "2015-05-14T01:12:29Z")
Non American here. I have permanent manual ice trays in my freezer but use them rarely. The only drinks I have ice in are alcoholic spirits and I think it is mainly to make the glass appear fuller when I have the correct ratio of spirit to mixer. I will specifically ask for no ice in soft drinks from a bar or restaurant. I figure if I’m paying for a drink I don’t want it to be 90% frozen water. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/36 "2015-05-14T01:20:31Z")
Ice in the drinks is what sets a fellow apart from primitive screwheads. I personally replaced the icemaker in my refrigerator when the motor fried. I didn’t give ashit about labor costs; I just wasn’t willing to wait. When I want ice, I want it NOW. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/37 "2015-05-14T01:50:57Z")
I don’t care for ice and almost never use it, but my freezer does have an ice maker installed. My husband uses the whole container in his ice chest often enough to keep the cubes fairly fresh for the rare occasion that I need one. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/38 "2015-05-14T01:59:03Z")
Charles Dickens appreciated all that American ice when he visited; read the first couple of American chapters in _Martin Chuzzlewit_. Sherry Cobblers, I think they were drinking. I put ice in my liquor. So yeah, I use a lot of ice. ---
**Author:** ![Emmy2635](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/919ad9/32.png) [@Emmy2635](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emmy2635)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/39 "2015-05-14T02:02:07Z")
I love ice. But I feel like ice I make or store in my freezer smells and tastes like freezer burn. No? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969/40 "2015-05-14T02:03:48Z")
American, love ice in my drinks, have an icemaker/door dispenser in my freezer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby-or-do-you-regularly-use-ice-in-your-home/719969.md?page=3)