Product review (5 stars): Made a Convert Outta Me!
I went to a friend's house a good while back and he had one of these units down in his bar area. I'm not sure it was the exact same model, but regardless I was unimpressed with the whole idea of a tabletop ice maker. His took forever to make ice, and just seemed like an expensive novelty.

Fast forward to 2 weeks ago when a friend of mine picked up this specific model from the garage sale of a neighbor who reviews products for a living. We hadn't really asked her to be on the lookout for one of these, but she had overheard us say that our home refrigerator's ice maker just couldn't keep up with demand when we have 10 or so people over. So, we bought it from her, still fully sealed new in the box.

Last weekend, we took it camping in our RV just for grins and giggles to see if it works. I had very low expectations of this thing based on what I'd seen of this kind of item before. Well, great balls o' buggy dust, this thing rocks! It took about 10 minutes to set up and within about another 10 minutes we were getting our first set of cubes. I was astonished! It just kept cranking out the large sized cubes about every 6 minutes thereafter, never skipping a beat. We filled up the reservoir twice and stockpiled all the extra in the RV's freezer to keep it "fresh". What a treat to be able to offer our other camping friends just about all the ice they could want throughout the day, without having to worry about whether we were depleting the stock of ice we usually have to bring with us.

I love this thing! It's especially great for camping due to its compact size, and its prolific, efficient and quiet operation. If you have 120v and some water, you've got ice...quickly. We will absolutely use this every time we have guests come to the house, too, and will probably even start using it the day before to stock up on ice for the party. We don't use or even care about the timer functions, so just the basic ice making capability is plenty for us. This was truly a surprisingly positive experience from something from which I expected total disappointment.