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bif

(24,815 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:50 PM Dec 13

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Who's the ice maker in your household?

I've maintained this forever. There's always one member of the family who assumes the duty of making the ice. (Refilling the trays). I'm the one in our family. I've let it go on purpose to see what would happen and it gets to the point where all four trays are empty. I finally suck it up and fill them up. My daughter is the one in her household. Seems like it's the dads unofficial duty in most houses.

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Who's the ice maker in your household? (Original Post) bif Dec 13 OP

The refrigerator. Ocelot II Dec 13 #1

-------------- debm55 Dec 13 #2

At our house it's Mr Ellgee. LastDemocratInSC Dec 13 #7

At mine it's La Frigidaire. Ocelot II Dec 14 #13

The only way to go. Dark n Stormy Knight Dec 14 #15

WinCo intrepidity Dec 13 #3

I hadn't thought much of it, but... Harker Dec 13 #4

If I didn't refill the trays Diamond_Dog Dec 13 #5

Frigidaire? House of Roberts Dec 13 #6

Detroit has some of the cleanest water in the country bif Dec 14 #14

The built in icemaker happybird Dec 13 #8

Me usually TexasBushwhacker Dec 13 #9

Don't Need One ProfessorGAC Dec 13 #10

me Kali Dec 14 #11

It used to be me. hunter Dec 14 #12

We have had an icemaker for so long I can't remember when we got it. But when our old refrigerator diied, an automatic CTyankee Dec 14 #16

Ice making isn't a job title in this household Niagara Dec 14 #17

My wife and I share the responsibility. Emile Dec 14 #18

Who ever has used the last cube. Seems to work. La Coliniere Dec 14 #19

The built-in icemaker. Dulcinea Dec 15 #20

Ocelot II

(123,556 posts)

1. The refrigerator.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:51 PM

Dec 13

debm55

(43,489 posts)

2. --------------

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:54 PM

Dec 13

LastDemocratInSC

(3,968 posts)

7. At our house it's Mr Ellgee.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:10 PM

Dec 13

Ocelot II

(123,556 posts)

13. At mine it's La Frigidaire.

Reply to LastDemocratInSC (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 12:08 PM

Dec 14

The ice maker is one of the great inventions of all time.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,270 posts)

15. The only way to go.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:08 PM

Dec 14

Also, must have good, gravity-fed crusher in the door.

intrepidity

(8,178 posts)

3. WinCo

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 05:59 PM

Dec 13

Aint nobody got space (or time) for that nonsense.

Harker

(15,735 posts)

4. I hadn't thought much of it, but...

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:00 PM

Dec 13

all of our ice cube trays have frozen Asian-style vegetable broth in them.

No frozen water here at all.

Diamond_Dog

(36,217 posts)

5. If I didn't refill the trays

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:05 PM

Dec 13

They’d sit on the counter in the same place for the next ten years.

House of Roberts

(5,892 posts)

6. Frigidaire?

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:07 PM

Dec 13

Refilling the trays doesn't 'make' ice.

Do you still use tap water in your ice trays?

Here, it is mandated that Crystal Geyser water must be used in the ice trays.

(I still use tap water to make tea, for myself only.)

bif

(24,815 posts)

14. Detroit has some of the cleanest water in the country

Reply to House of Roberts (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 04:05 PM

Dec 14

happybird

(5,358 posts)

8. The built in icemaker

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:18 PM

Dec 13

on which the "stop, bin full" does not work. Two times I've forgotten to flip the off lever and had an entire freezer full ice cubes that cascade out on to the floor.

Like mentioned above, the ice cubes trays are used for freezing homemade veg stock and also lactose-free milk for cat treats.

Before I had an built in icemaker, I was The Icemaker.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,856 posts)

9. Me usually

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:36 PM

Dec 13

What drives me nuts is when someone leaves a mostly empty tray in the freezer. Use it all and fill it up!

ProfessorGAC

(71,853 posts)

10. Don't Need One

Reply to bif (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 06:59 PM

Dec 13

We've had a fridge with an ice maker for at least 35 years.

Kali

(56,126 posts)

11. me

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 02:17 AM

Dec 14

it was me when we had trays and it is me now that I have a counter top ice maker. thing is great, can make several weeks worth of ice in a day if I pay attention. if I don't, it melts and recycles until somebody empties it into a bag or more usually old gallon plastic ice cream buckets.

but even when we had trays we had a storage bucket for ice, nobody took a few out of a tray and left them or left empty trays.

hunter

(39,379 posts)

12. It used to be me.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 11:08 AM

Dec 14

But I was lax in my duties so my wife bought a refrigerator with an ice-maker.

I'm not an ice lover. I'm not even sure I'd have a refrigerator if I was living by myself.

CTyankee

(65,820 posts)

16. We have had an icemaker for so long I can't remember when we got it. But when our old refrigerator diied, an automatic

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 05:37 PM

Dec 14

icemaker was mandatory for us. It's been working fine for many years (maybe 15).

Niagara

(10,303 posts)

17. Ice making isn't a job title in this household

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 06:11 PM

Dec 14

I don't like ice in my beverages.

When there's a restaurant involved I always request "no ice, please" for my beverage.

If ice is needed in a food cooler for a road trip, I just buy a bag or two.

Emile

(33,054 posts)

18. My wife and I share the responsibility.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 06:19 PM

Dec 14

La Coliniere

(1,317 posts)

19. Who ever has used the last cube. Seems to work.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 06:31 PM

Dec 14

Dulcinea

(7,983 posts)

20. The built-in icemaker.

Reply to bif (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2024, 01:57 AM

Dec 15

But I remember using ice cube trays. Whoever used the last cubes was responsible for refilling it.

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