Are ice cubes expensive? Or difficult to make?

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No and no. So why do I feel extravagant when I use a lot of ice for my G&T? 🤔

Your thoughts, please.

Or do you have anything that feels extravagant but really isn't?

Ha this is so true! I’m lucky enough to have a big American fridge with the ice maker. So literally no effort and always on tap. Yet I always feel extravagant using a lot in my glass of cola!

Maybe you're misreading your feelings about this and rather than feeling you're being extravagant with the ice, you're concerned about it melting and seriously diluting and ruining your G & T.

Ummm, fill Ice tray.. put it in freezer..: voila

Nit seeing that as a luxury. Now the gin, that'd be a luxury 🤣 my ice cubes just go into water

@pigsDOfly I use those enormous ice cubes for G&T where you just put one 2" cube in the glass - but when I went to refill I added another and it felt weirdly extravagant 😆

I have an ice machine. Totally unnecessary, but I was gifted it and I love it. Tons of ice whenever I want it definitely feels like a luxury!

The more ice used, the more water in the drink. So you're saving yourself the effort of water between drinks and still lessening the hangover chances. Science.

When I move, I'm 💯 getting a massive American style FF with ice dispenser. I used to have one and miss it so much. Current kitchen is ridiculously small for a family home.

@RuggerHug

The more ice used, the more water in the drink. So you're saving yourself the effort of water between drinks and still lessening the hangover chances. Science.

Love this logic. I knew I was doing good 😌

enuffalreadyffs Ah, well if the ice cubes are big enough not to melt all over your G & T then you're probably safe (I speak as a fellow G & T drinker)

If you add frozen lemon slices it's even(teeny tiny amount but..) more.

My friend had her parents staying, lovely people but would just go on & on & on about anything & everything. He'd give you his last Penny, but was very 'careful'. ... just 'of his generation. My friends DH had done a Stirling jib if tolerating it with good humour... until one day when FIL commented about how much I've he was using (for the millionth time). My friends DH just looked at him & said, 'it's OK Fred, I've got the recipe'

Maybe you had to be there, but it was 😂😂

I once went to a cocktail class where they recommended filling the glass with ice-apparently melts more slowly than a single cube thus not diluting the gin! Once again- science!

Get those stones that you put in the freezer (whiskey stones /gin stones) and you won’t have to worry about the dilution issue!

I'm almost certain I'll be excommunicated from Mumsnet for this, but, I use reusable ice cubes.

Means drink is chilled but no dilution.

I usually have a glass of chilled water alongside - I like my gin ginny.

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When we were kids in the 80s we only ever had ice on Christmas day. As a treat. My mother couldn't stand an ice cube tray taking up space when it could be accommodating some lamb chops instead.

My grown up dream is one of those American fridges with an ice dispenser.
I would use ice with wild abandon

My dream would be to waste ice cooling down a cup of tea.
Or not even top up a gin and tonic using the old ice. Just Chuck it and start again,

Oh the ice recklessness I could have

@Wingedharpy

I'm almost certain I'll be excommunicated from Mumsnet for this, but, I use reusable ice cubes.

Means drink is chilled but no dilution.

I usually have a glass of chilled water alongside - I like my gin ginny.

Yes, leave. Immediately.

But leave the line 'I like my gin ginny', please.

I think I'll put it in a blues song

@Marinaloves 😂 so funny

@LatteLoverLovesLattes DH and I often joke about having the recipe 😉

What I want to know is: who is buying those bags of ice cubes from supermarkets? I can sort of see why you might buy a few bags (about a quid each) if you realise you forgot to make any and your party guests are arriving in 10 minutes; but I rather fear there are plenty of folk who buy them not in a state of panic and keep them in all the time. Why, when they're so easy to make? In fact, if you're handy with a chisel, you don't even have to make the minimal effort to make them yourself - your freezer will do it for you

@Tuscadero

When we were kids in the 80s we only ever had ice on Christmas day. As a treat. My mother couldn't stand an ice cube tray taking up space when it could be accommodating some lamb chops instead.

I think you have hit the nail on the head there- our freezer compartments used to be the size of a shoebox so of course making ice was a luxury!

Why is ice so precious!!!
My mum makes drinks and puts one ice cube in. It maddens me more than no ice

She hasn’t even got the excuse of ice rationing in the war

@RuggerHug

The more ice used, the more water in the drink. So you're saving yourself the effort of water between drinks and still lessening the hangover chances. Science.

It's the opposite, to be honest, unless you're going to wait for them to melt.

The more ice you put in, the less watered down your drink gets because they cool the drink quickly to the point that the ice isn't melting so quickly.

That's the whole reason for using large amounts of ice.

Ice
It’s so AMERICAN and common

Oh my god you are so right! Anything more than three (or four, absolute maximum) feels horrendously decadent. Why??