As an avid cocktail maker, and a pebble/nugget ice enthusiast I was hoping that this ice maker would replace our need to go to our nearby Sonic for bags of ice. While this would be great to pull out for parties or events, I don't see this making its way into our daily habits, and even still if you were using it for a party, you'd have to have the machine going for 24hrs to make a sufficient amount of ice. If you have a dedicated space for this appliance and don't mind the noise / time it takes to make this ice, I do think that you will be happy with the purchase. However, to make a small 4 quart bucket of ice, it took over 5 hours and for us that wasn't really enough ice for our purposes. To keep this review honest, we did receive this ice-machine for free in exchange for our review.