Product review (5 stars): Love it...Makes perfect quality clear ice with little effort.
Before I bought this ice maker the process of getting clear, quality ice in my house was this...buy bottled water, then freeze to an almost solid state, then knead the bottles till the half frozen chunks were crushed, then empty the ice into a glass- usually having to cut the plastic tops off to get the ice out. Holy smokes, Batman...are you kidding me? Now after buying this ice maker I am enjoying the best quality clear ice with virtually no labor whatsoever...I still buy bottled water, yeah...to pour into this ice maker...turn it on and the work is done. I come back after an hour or so and empty the ice basket inside the unit into my refrigerator ice holder (I have a switch on our fridge that disables its ice making ability) which then gives me a convenient ice storage unit for my fresh clear ice and also lets me dispense the ice (cubed or crushed) through the ice dispenser on my fridge. Awesome, after about 3 hours of ice making I fill up the fridge and I am good to go for about 2-3 days under normal use. This unit is magic. The only complaint I have is the chrome unit is covered with a protective plastic sheeting when it arrived out of the box. This was a bit hard to remove as it was even applied UNDER the screws but after a casual 30 minutes of steady work I was able to remove the sheeting sufficiently. TIPS...let the unit get acclimated to your room temperature before plugging it up (normal procedure for any refrigerated device)...only use clear, clean water in the unit (what you put in is what you get out)...I buy 3-liter bottles at the grocery store for about $1.29 a bottle, Zephyrhills brand Spring water. 1 bottle yields about 20 or more trays of ice (I am estimating on this as I have not actually measured)....read the short user manual for additional tips and you will be enjoying clear, soft, slow-melting, delicious ice in no time. Some may wonder why I bought this since I have an ice maker in my refrigerator...short answer...while the fridges water dispenser is filtered the ice maker is not. Thanks for reading my review.