Product review (5 stars): i love this ice maker
i love this ice maker.  Trigger event for the purchase was my gloriously beautiful (in case she reads this) wife sending me to the store for ice @ 10pm when we had some friends over and our freezer ice maker was unable to keep up.  I started my research and after about 2 days I had settled on this ice maker.  We've had it for the last 2 months through this summer season and visits from our 11 grand children.  We no longer run out of ice.  Our home is under renovation, and these last 4 days we've stocked a cooler of gatorade for the contractors, and we've never run out of ice.

Ok...  we let it sit as directed for 4 hours, cleaned it out well.  Filled it with water, plugged it in, turned it on, selected medium sized cubes and voila...ice started happening.  It really is that simple.  The ice is hollow.  That's how it freezes so fast.  My wife didn't think she would like it, but we both now think it chills the drinks faster.  It definitely fits the glasses better than the big clunky stuck together ice coming from our in freezer ice maker.  I've never timed it, but it doesn't take 15 minutes for each drop, definitely less..maybe 10?  We use when we have a larger than normal demand for ice.  Easy plug in...and go.

It does make some noise...you can hear when it's running, but it's nothing major.  As loud as my central air conditioning system running, and that's not loud.  It's an excellent purchase, we've had friends comment and buy them.  Easy recommendation... if you need ice...buy this.