I have sensitive teeth. My ex use to empty the ice maker bucket each morning and bag it for the deep freezer.....future fishing trips. I would reach for a cube to cool my coffee......hot or cold sent me through the roof. All I would ask, each and every morning for 29 years was one darn ice cube.........just one. I'd have to go out to get one or wait until the ice maker threw one. Winter time I'd sit my cup in the window for a bit. But, you want your coffee when you want your coffee, not a lot to ask, expecially since I busted a gusset to see that everything was done for him that I could earthly do. Love my coffee - definatively, I said "EX". ya know!