Do you prefer your water ice cold or room temperature?

[ClaraThePigeon]

For drinking that is. Not showers.

Just curious after a discussion with a friend who is French and will only drink room temperature water.

room temperature and I like my fruit at room temperature too. Cold strawberries are not nice!

Agree on the fruit! MIL keeps all her fruit in the fridge. OK, she lives on her own and it lasts longer. But I really don't much like cold oranges!

If it's plain water then I like it room temperature. If I put squash in it then I like it cold.

Icy cold and preferably with ice in. Bleurgh at room temperature or tepid water.

ice cold. I like cold drinks to be properly cold and hot drinks to be properly hot; I can’t drink hot drinks that have cooled down and often pop my coffee in the microwave to make sure it’s hot right to the end!

I'm with you!

Room temperature

I am forever sending glasses full of ice back

Full of ice, frosty cold.

Freezing cold, my drinks have two temperatures, freezing cold or boiling hot, I can't stand luke warm drinks. My mum puts all the bottles on her worktop in the utility room & when the sun gets on it it ends up warm, I spend a fortune on bags of ice. As soon as I get back home I'm buying an American fridge freezer with chilled water & ice maker.

Absolutely bamboozled that people chose to drink room temperature water!!!

If I could drink ice, I would. As cold as it can be for me please. I even put ice on white wine... SHAME

Room temperature.
I also prefer warm beer which is, apparently, a disgrace.

Well it is a disgrace but you would love my parents who keep cans of lager in the cupboard.

This. Colder than room temperature (which feels hot to me and disgusting). But it’s not gluggable if it’s ice cold.

Room temp or lukewarm

Room temp. My DP were having this conversation the other day. I prefer all my drinks at the temp that you almost can't feel them in your mouth. So actually more body temp than room temp

I rarely drink water but, when I do, I don’t care whether it is fridge or room temperature.

I am forever sending glasses full of ice back

Same here.

Colder than room temp but not necessarily ice cold - but if I've only drunk some of it and come back to it later, I'll drink it room temperature rather than waste it.

Thanks to all for the responses. Far more people prefer room temperature/tepid water than I expected.

Ice cold.

Room temperature water actually makes me gag and I've been sick when made to drink it in the past 😳

But I have sensory issues which probably explain that one!

Inbetween. Not ice cold but slightly chilled.

It had never crossed my mind that anyone would actively prefer room temperature water to cold.

Me three! One or two icecubes is fine, half a glass of ice is not OK. I either ask the staff to remove them or just fish them out myself.

Lager in the cupboard is an absolute disgrace!!
When DH and I set up home together 24 years ago we both drank lager- bought our Miele fridge on the grounds we could fit 32 cans of lager in it upright!
That fridge is still going strong although neither of us drink lager much anymore. When/if this fridge dies I will happily buy the same one again even though it is £450 these days- I love all cold drinks properly cold/iced cannot stand a room temp can of Coke for example. Also like a PP hot drinks need to be HOT - lukewarm tea or coffee -nope!

Ice cold bottled water. Tap water is just a no no. We live in a hard water area and the tap water is gross. Even if I tried it ice cold it's still a no from me!