Ice, ice, baby: Your chill guide to home ice-making

Kya deLongchamps has cool clean nuggets of wisdom for boutique ice making at home

Ensure your ice is clean. File picture

I’m married to an American and, to an American, ice is not a rare summertime commodity.

His highball is topped confidently with a small glacier, and the soda or water is poured into the remaining slivers of real estate. I reckon he gets about two egg cups of actual cola into the glass. If he has a hard drink with ice, he will not tolerate a couple of lonesome, bobbing cubes that slip away to nuggets.