Ice Cubes
@Ineeddentures (4021)
June 9, 2025 6:13pm CST
Ice cubes
It occurred to me that I should post a discussion about our ice cubes as people might like to know how we make them.
We put water in the wee cube tray and then freeze it.
When frozen we take the cubes out of the tray and put them in a zip freezer bag and then put the bag in the freezer too along with the next cube tray filled with water
It's cheaper than buying ice in bags in the freezer shop
One day I bought a bag of ice from the freezer shop put it in the luggage box and forgot all about it
I then had a box full of water as the bag had broken and when they melted...
Do you make your own ice cubes
Maybe.you have a machine....
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18 responses
@snowy22315 (191034)
• United States
10 Jun
My fridge freezer combo has an ice maker Wonderful to have ice without thinking about making it
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@snowy22315 (191034)
• United States
10 Jun
@Ineeddentures Nobody, it is automatic.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Yes indeed.
So who puts the water in the ice maker?
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@Deepizzaguy (110676)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Jun
My relatives and I use water to place in an ice cube tray to make ice cubes since the ice cube machine inside the home does not work.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Great.
So we make ice cubes the same way.
I have never had an ice making machine George
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@Deepizzaguy (110676)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Jun
@Ineeddentures My relatives used to have ice making machines before they broke.
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@LadyDuck (476134)
• Italy
11 Jun
@Ineeddentures - I like to add an ice cube to my drink.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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11 Jun
@LadyDuck
I cannot drink my Gin or my Jim Beam without adding ice cubes.
I even put ice cubes in Coca Cola.
And lemonade.
And sometimes just in plain tap water
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
We need them.every night Anna
So we always have a whole load of them ready just to plop in our drinks
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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11 Jun
@wolfgirl569
The temperatures you have talked about I would need a bucket of ice every day
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
I would have thought in a warm.climate.that.you would use quite a lot of ice
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@lovebuglena (46732)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Jun
Your fridge doesn’t have an ice maker? Ours does but we don’t use it.
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@lovebuglena (46732)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Jun
@Ineeddentures I don’t put ice in my drinks and ask for no ice (if possible) when I order them at restaurants because it dilutes the drink if you don’t drink it quick. And I don’t.
After we put the filter into our fridge we had to drain a lot of water before we can use it for drinking and to make ice. We never did that. And so our ice maker is off.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
No.
Our fridge does not have an ice maker.
Why do you not use the ice maker on your fridge Lena?
Do you not use ice in drinks?
@porwest (100740)
• United States
11 Jun
@Ineeddentures Oh. Yes. YES. The refrigerator. For a sec there I thought you put a hidden camera in my bathroom. 
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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11 Jun
@porwest
I think not - bedroom maybe , just to get some pointers.....
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
You are in possession of a mighty modern appliance.
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@allknowing (147205)
• India
10 Jun
I remember seeing a fridge with my nephew in the US where I was spending my holidya that had an automatic ice maker.
Here is a video that talks about such a fridge
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@allknowing (147205)
• India
10 Jun
@Ineeddentures I have not watched that video Just wanted you to and compare. You seem better off with your own device. Enjoy those ice cubes.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Awesome
I wish ours had an automatic Ice maker
Actually having watched.the.video I don't.
Too much scutter and the craft ice maker doesn't really make enough quick enough
I will stick to what we do now
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
@allknowing
Yes.
I like them because they are cold.
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@RasmaSandra (85910)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Jun
Yup, I don't need much but I have two ice trays that make round cubes,
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Round cubes,
I must see if I can get trys to make round ones.
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@Traceyjayne (2222)
• United Kingdom
10 Jun
To be honest we don't use a lot of ice. Should we need it, we make our own though. You can get trays with different shapes these days but ours is the basic cube tray.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Ours is very basic cube tray as well.
Ice cubes .
I don't see much point in fancy shapes when a cube will do the job perfectly well and cool our drinks down
@NJChicaa (123136)
• United States
10 Jun
@Ineeddentures My ex and I bought a fancy schmancy fridge/freezer with automatic icemaker and sure enough the icemaker broke after a couple of years. We were back to ice cube trays.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
I always have.
Didn't even know that freezers and fridges could make them themselves
Quite clever
But what if it goes wrong
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
@NJChicaa
That's the way it goes.
And that is exactly what would happen to me.
And I will not give my wife the chance to say
I told you so
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@LindaOHio (190998)
• United States
10 Jun
I have a refrigerator that dispenses cold water, ice cubes and crushed ice.
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@LindaOHio (190998)
• United States
11 Jun
@Ineeddentures It sure beats filling ice cube trays. Did that for a lot of years.
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@arunima25 (90530)
• Bangalore, India
10 Jun
We always have ice cubes ready in the upper section freezer of our refrigerator. We have never bought ice bags. Are they costly? I will not pay for something that is so easy and free to make.
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@arunima25 (90530)
• Bangalore, India
11 Jun
@Ineeddentures Hmm....one would not go for it unless there is an emergency situation like refrigerator not working. Or you have too much of money to throw away buying ice cubes.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
Costly..
I think buying already made ice cubes was costly because we could have made them for free .
So basically when we bought them it was a bit of a waste of money which is a bit costly.
I cannot recall how much but I think about £2 for maybe a kg of ice cubes
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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11 Jun
Using the bag means we can refill the tray straight away so we never run out of ice
@youless (113183)
• Guangzhou, China
10 Jun
In fact it is easy to make ice cubes at home. The problem is there are so many food in my fridge already and this is why I don't often make ice cubes. I ever thought about buying an ice cube maker but then I cancelled this plan. Perhaps I don't really need them so often and I hate to buy something that I don't often use. It's a kind of wasting money.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
You are right
Buying ready made ice cubes does seem to me like a bit of a waste of money
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
That's good to get.for free.
I don't know anyone here with an ice maker
Most either do it like us or buy ice from a freezer shop
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@JESSY3236 (20637)
• United States
10 Jun
My uncle used to buy them from the store. My mother makes her own ice cubes from ice trays. She noticed that one ice tray was using has a hole in it and one had broke. She puts the ice cubes she makes in a container.
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
I think one of our trays broke
A lump of ice formed once and I couldn't get the tray of cubes unstuck from the shelf thingy
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@Ineeddentures (4021)
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10 Jun
I just watched the video that @allknowing left the link for
Will stick to what we do now
It seems easier
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