When you turn it on, within a few minutes it makes the first little bunch of ice cubes. They are very cute. The other reviewers are correct when they say that they come out very wet but each time a new basket is made or a couple of baskets I dumped him right into my I told her in my freezer and then once theyre Frozen all the way, I shake the container and they come unstuck from each other from being wet before. Very fast and very easy to use.