Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Our ice maker in our fridge failed for the second time. The second unit only lasted a few years before it quit. I didn't feel like spending all that money again. We decided to try a different approach and ordered the Avalon ice maker from Amazon. When we first got the machine I was not sure it would make enough ice to keep our tray full in the freezer. I was wrong. We had our tray filled in short order and had to shut off the machine. So far, we are very happy with the Avalon ice maker. We run it once a day in the evening when we are preparing dinner. It makes plenty of ice that will get us through the next day. Pros: Makes ice really fast Easy to set up and use One fill of the reservoir makes a lot of ice Very quiet, only noise is when the cubes dump into the tray. Cons: It is not a freezer, so cubes left in the tray will melt if you do not remove them. Overall, we are very happy. I would definitely recommend the Avalon Bay ice maker. UPDATE June 12, 2015 Our ice maker quit working after 10 months. We shipped it back to Avalon Bay on April 24. They could not repair it and sent us a new machine that arrived the first week of June. Service from Avalon was courteous, but really slow. The new machine works much better than the old one ever did. The cubes are much bigger and thicker. Leading us to think the first machine was faulty to begin with. Luckily the machine quit during the 10th month of the 12 month warranty. Two more months and it would have been a total loss. Bottom line: I wouldn't buy this machine again. UPDATE: AUGUST, 2016 Second machine has now quit working. These machines are junk...don't buy one!