Ice Maker icefeast counter top ice Machine with High Efficiency Low Noise Low Energy 2 Cube Sizes 54 pounds Ice Per Day No Plumbing New Portable Easy to clean US Standard Plug110V/60Hz(Red)

This does exactly what it is supposed to do: make ice and make ice quickly.I fill the reservoir with filtered water and the system does not add any 'extra' flavor to the ice, it tastes/smells just like the filtered water - in other words, like water. It does produce ice quickly, I haven't timed it, but whatever they are saying in the description is pretty accurate.It comes with a small scooper that I initially discounted but it fits inside the ice bucket and is perfect for scooping out ice. Hence the very descriptive name: ice scooper.Here's the things to be aware of:* The ice cubes are not big. Make sure you read the description, get out a ruler and understand the size you will be getting. This will not produce the same size as you are probably producing now in ice trays.* The unit itself is not a freezer for the ice that it has produced. If you don't keep moving the ice to your freezer, it will eventually melt. The water that is melted goes back into the reservoir so it isn't lost, but that really isn't the point of the machine. I normally transfer the ice over to my freezer after a couple of batches have dropped. I have found that if I let too much go into the bucket, the cubes get wet from melting, and when put into the freezer, will then freeze together that other people have referred to.* Don't let it run overnight. It just won't work. It will fill up with ice, stop producing more, and melt.* It is big on the kitchen counter. Check the dimensions and check your counter. I only pull mine out a couple of evenings a week and make a bunch that lasts for a couple days.* The ice is not clear but oh well, it is ice.Overall, this makes a large amount of ice in an evening. You need to be a participant in the process (scooping out ice, adding water, listening, swirling the ice in your tumbler, that kind of stuff). If you want large ice cubes, go get big ice trays and put them in your fridge. If you just need ice, this is your Huckleberry.

I bought this based on the glowing reviews and will be sending it back. Firstly, this machine does NOT make ice cubes. It makes 2 sizes of 'pellets'. One is the size of rabbit poop and the other is approx. 1/3 the size of an actual ice cube from your plastic ice tray (which I will be switching back to). Also, if your GE ice maker failed like mine did, and they want $700 to send a guy out, you are likely filling up trays and freezing them then dumping the cubes in the old ice bucket in the freezer. Well, when you put these pellets in there, they fuse together into a giant block of ice and the auger on my front door dispenser cant break this iceberg up.The water reservoir is big, but the cube tray is quite small, so it shuts off after only a few loads leaving the most of the water in the tank. Also, it asks you to add water while the res is still 1/4 full...so there is always some standing water in there that has to be drained. This machine is large..BIGGER than a breadbox and has the fan on the back, so you cannot push it against your backsplash..you have to leave space so it takes up a LOT of room.If it made usable sized ice cubes, I would keep it, but it really is pretty useless unless you just need some pellets for a small drinkipoo.The cleaning, the emptying every 2 hrs or so and the pellet sized cubes make this more trouble than filling up ice trays and putting them in the freezer every few days.

Below is my first review which was not favorable. However I have an "UPDATE": After reading my review regarding the machine not working the company contacted me and once my purchase was verified, they shipped me a new ice-maker. The second one arrived and is working wonderfully,. Their customer service is great and I now have a very productive ice maker.I purchased this on March 23. When it arrived I followed the instructions to start it up and run some water through it. It worked great for the test run. I purchased it to have ice for my board meetings here in the office. I went to use it for the first time since the initial run and the add water light stays on and it will not make ice. It has plenty of water in it and the tray goes through the motions but just dumps the water out. New Unit. One time use. I would not recommend purchasing an item this unreliable.

As others have observed, this is NOT an ice maker where you can take the cubes out of THIS and just drop them into the freezer for later - they will be wet even if you are standing right-there as they drop out of the freezing mechanism and get them into the freezer right that very instant. You'll end up with a fist-sized chunk of ice instead of usable cubes.It makes up for that by putting out 1-3 drinks worth of ice (depending on whether or not you're a "few cubes is enough" vs. "what is this 'too much ice' you speak of? there is no such concept among MY people..." type) about every 6-8 minutes. Put it this way: I have five teenagers (pray for me) and three adults living in this house, and this little baby keeps up with us, and is simple enough for even my most appliance-impaired teen to attend as-needed - we're talking about a kid who STILL comes to me holding a KitchenAid beater in one hand and a hand-held beater in the other asking me which one goes to which machine, y'all.(In the name of science, I did experiment a bit with ways by which I could "stockpile" its ice in the freezer - the fastest/best way I found was to spread the batch out on a silicon baking sheet on a tray in the freezer, then kind of toss-n-rumple them on it once they were frozen to a "dry" status before dumping them into the bin. Still a bit on the fiddly side for my taste, but, in a pinch I could fill up the bin in a few hours if I actually stayed attentive to the chore...)