What temperature do you like a cool glass of water?

Well this is a loaded question, now isn’t it?

I like mine room temperature so I can drink it without my body freezing up.

I rarely remember ice, so room temperature. On very hot days, I stick the Brita in the fridge and may even throw in some ice cubes—no AC. (I can’t get used to the flavor of the water where I am—tastes mustier than where I grew up—but I usually keep the Brita on the counter—why waste the fridge space.)

But uually I take my water just shy of boiling, and soak some dried leaves in it before sipping.

You know this question really makes you think…. but i usually drink mine at room temp.

Really cold. I like it with ice in it, but at worst, chilled.

Room temperature or refrigerated but not necessarily icy.

Someone I used to work with told me her doctor told her not to drink ice water, because something about the icy temperature makes you drink less (whether it sends a signal to your body that you are not so thirsty or what, I don’t remember the details).

I want as much ice crowded into the glass as can be arranged.

I prefer warm beverages over cold, as I have sensitive teeth. No ice at all. Lukewarm is fine, but a bit under room temp is fine.

I did drink water with ice this weekend, but it was OMG hot outside and I was camping and it was my only option for a cooling mechanism. Didn’t work much because the ice didn’t last long, even in my Tervis.

It depends on my reason for drinking the water.

If I’m sipping, I want the water just the liquid side of ice, and ice in it is fine.
If I’m quenching my thirst (gulping), then our local ground temperature of around 52° is about right. Maybe a bit cooler.

For me, room temp is too warm and icy too cold. So I suppose I’ll have to say I prefer it to be cold-ish.

Over ice, generally speaking, but it really depends on the temperature. If it’s hot, definitely over ice. If it’s freezing cold, hot, like coffee.

Ice cold from the frig.

^^I had to sit inside during recess one day in 2nd grade for spelling “fridge” like that.

I’d have been there with you @dxs. I remember seeing trucks called frigmobiles here and being stunned. Frig means something different in the UK.

Frig is not a good thing in the US either. Did you mean “fridge”

Why is fridge short for refrigerator, when the original word has no “d”?

Cuz wen we say “refrigerator,” we’re say the “ig” with a sound that’s kind of like a D sound, so that’s how we write it in short. If not, we’d write “frig” and that doesn’t sound anything like “refrigerator.” “Fridge” does.

@ibstubro Doesn’t “frige” not look right? “Frij” looks more like how we pronounce it.

This site’s discussion said that both were actually okay… they also gave an explanation for “why fridge” that made a lot of sense—comparing “fridge” with “bridge”—and once I saw it I was all, “oh! That’s totally why!” ... that spelling the shortened version “fridge” is matching the phonetics we already know of words like it… bridge, ridge, midge, smidge….

Thanks @Soubresaut. That does make sense.

@dxs “frige” would be pronounced FRYG. When you have a vowel, then a consonet then an e, it makes the vowel long, like “kite,” “ride,” “ate” “mate”.