Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I like clear ice. It doesn't melt nearly as fast. It looks better. It provides a host of sensations that are superior to that cloudy stuff we are all too used to. This makes clear ice. It doesn't make full, solid, six sided cubes. One of the six sides will be noticeably indented. A bit less so if you make heavier cubes. To make the heavier cubes, set the ice maker to add 3 minutes per cycle by holding the On Button down for 5-10 seconds while turning the machine on. The cubes come 24 per cycle in easily broken up slabs and after it has chilled the water you're using a bit, it starts delivering crystal goodness about a tumbler full at a time. A couple refills later I had enough to throw out the stale cloudy ice in the kitchen fridge's ice maker and fill it with some good stuff! I put a couple more gallons worth in big zip lock bags in the freezer. This type of ice machine makes shiny wet ice which will tend to freeze together when you take it out and put it in a freezer. It is, however, easy to bust back apart. If you plan to use your built in kitchen fridge ice maker to dispense this ice, you may want to freeze the wetness off of it first in a zip lock bag, then bust it back up by smacking the bag on something hard. Because this machine makes clear solid ice, it melts much more slowly. This means that once it fills itself, it cycles much less often. Far fewer falling ice noises in the middle of the night, and when it does fall, it is just one noise. Not dropping one cloudy bullet after another until all (only 8?!) fall off, like my old portable ice maker! This machine seems quite well built. Actual stainless steel that a magnet will stick to. Well insulated. Nice solid feeling door. More quiet in operation than the old style ice bullet makers. It uses 1.6 amps during freezing, and 2.6 amps for the much shorter heating cycle that frees a slab of cubes to fall into the basket. When full of ice, it stops pumping water over the ice tray and just sits quietly waiting for enough ice to melt or get used so it can start again. As your machine is making ice, check that the water is flowing evenly across the whole freezing metal ice tray part. You can (carefully) adjust the sprayer tube in its silicone fitting (above and to the right of the metal ice tray) to achieve this if needed. Mine was fine out of the box. 5 Stars.