Product review (3 stars): OK but not my best purchase
I purchased this item for my elderly relative. He wanted some that made small cubes quickly that could be easily crushed. There are three sizes of cubes (look like bullets, not cubes) and they form essentially in the time stated and after the unit is working for about 30 to 40 minutes, they seem to form a little faster. For my purposes, however, the cubes were wet, had to be quickly removed from the drawer, frozen flat and then packaged in another container. There is no was to store them, even for a short period of time, in the unit. They melt. If they were not separated and frozen flat on a cookie sheet they all stuck together and were useless for my purposes. In spite of pre-cleaning as directed by the manufacturer, the ice had an "off taste." The unit is very large, make sure to consider this in your purchase. I will not use this as planned so it has been moved into storage for use in large parties I suppose after another series of cleaning and flushing to see if I could removed the off-taste. I probably should have returned it.