Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love Sonic style ice. LOVE. I am not ashamed to admit that I would bring my own bag and ask them to fill it up a couple times a week for a few bucks so I could have it for drinks at home. I know it's bad for my teeth, but I crunch ice like it's the only thing standing between me and a horde of bloodthirsty zombies. I ran across a few reviews about this ice maker while I was cruising the net to see if I could find a used restaurant ice maker that wasn't priced so high I'd have to sell my kidney on the black marker. I've had little compact ice makers for a hundred bucks that promise "nugget ice" before and they lied. I was left with a withering hole of resentment for false advertising in my soul every single time I thought about taking a hammer to those machines. It made me a bad person. It made me a cranky person. It made me lose all faith in humanity and I basically wanted to direct that horde of zombies THEIR way. So, I asked for this icemaker for Christmas when I saw that it was on sale for $449.00. My husband thought I was absolutely insane. He mocked me. He laughed at me. He told me there was no way in Hades he would spend that much for an icemaker. Well, we've been married 25 years and he knows me well enough to know that I was only being polite by offering to let him get this for me for Christmas. I mean, God forbid he has to stress about gifts for me. Right? Whatever. I explained that he could get it for Christmas for me or I'd get it for him and he doesn't usually crunch ice at all. It arrived a few days later. It is magical. I don't know what kind of Harry Potter wizardry is happening inside Opal, but the ice this little beauty spits out is absolutely WONDERFUL. I am all up in my feels and happily crunching my way to heaven. And my husband is crunching as well. This thing is insanely easy to use. We set it up, ran it through a cleaning, and it was popping out ice about 20 minutes after it arrived. The ice is TRUE nugget ice. If you use it with soda or something a little stronger ... it holds the taste. It's soft to chew like Sonic ice and makes enough with one full cycle to fill our ice basin in the fridge. I am so happy. SO happy. Thank you to whoever invented Opal. And thank you to my husband for crossing something off my bucket list that I didn't even know was there. :)