SilonnNugget Ice Maker Countertop, Pellet Ice Machine with Self-Cleaning Function, Sonic Ice Maker Produces 33lbs of Chewable Ice in 24 Hours, Ideal for Home Kitchen and Office, Stainless Steel

I'm huge on ice. An ice fanatic, if you will. Big fan. HUGE fan of ice. And yes, I have a history of iron deficiency, but even when my iron levels are on point, I just love ice. Any time of year. I bundle up in the winter and lay on heating pads so that I can have ice to my heart's content without perishing of hypothermia. I used to keep a list on my phone of the restaurants with the best ice, or the gas stations that sold my favorite brand of bagged iced. It's truly insane. But I'm otherwise normal, promise.We don't have a fridge with a functioning ice maker, so I was buying bagged ice at least 3-4x per week to have and to munch on. Eventually I realized that if I found a decent ice maker, it would pay for itself eventually. AND BOY HAS IT! If this machine ever dies, I will absolutely repurchase, immediately. I may buy a backup so I never have to go without, truly.PROS:- Such a great product for the price! It paid for itself (by me no longer buying bagged ice) in like 2 months. I believe when I purchased it, it was discounted pretty significantly which was the cherry on top. But even the regular sale price is super fair for the product.- The ice itself is the biggest pro. Oh my god, the ice. It is officially my favorite ice in the world - topping all the restaurants and bagged ice brands and airlines that I once ranked lol. It is soft but not too soft, and shaped my favorite way (bullets/ovals with holes in the middle). It's so good.- Set up and instructions were super easy.- You can choose small or large sized ice (although I always choose large)- The machine is fairly quick to churn it out - the only times it seemed slow was before I had it for long enough to have collected a stockpile in my freezer.- It's pretty quiet (although, if you are nearby and forget you have it on, the sound of the ice dropping may startle you!)- It isn't very imposing, doesn't take up a ton of surface area and doesn't really catch the eye when you enter the kitchen.- It can take about 64 oz of water at a time. I have the machine right beside my Vitamix, so I just fill the vitamix with water, pour it into the ice maker, and then am good for a while.CONS/Room for Improvement - and I'm being detailed with this but personally, these are all things I'm not altogether fussed about given the trade-off but I know it may matter to others!- The piece that holds the collected ice is big enough to completely fill a cup of mine that holds about 32oz of water. Once it is full, it stops producing ice until it is emptied or has melted down enough to make room to produce more. When I forget to turn it off, I come home to a chamber that was definitely once full, but the ice that has now melted down is positioned in such a way that it still registers as being full even though, with a shake, it's really only half-filled by that point. I'd be happy with a bigger chamber, but honestly the fact that it fills the cup I always use is kind of perfect. If I was fighting others for ice, this may be a bigger deal to me.- When it needs more water, it makes a sound where you know it's trying to run to produce more ice but can't draw up water. I think it'd be a nice touch if it powered off or had some sort of sensor to prevent the motor from continuing to try to make ice until you refill it - similar to the 'ice full' sensor.- If you are stocking up your freezer, you do have to empty out the container yourself. Which leads to some drippage on the floor. It takes a large amount of these trips from machine to freezer to fully fill up the freezer's ice box. And because the ice is soft and wet, it often really clumps together in the ice box so my husband and I have to take turns hacking away at it with a knife so that it breaks apart enough to be able to dispense through our fridge's ice dispenser. I've seen others say they bag it, and as it freezes into one big mass they break it up on the ground like you would bagged ice - which is a solid solution, unless you're filling your freezer's ice box so that it can move through the dispenser like we do.- Ice texture is different the first few times it drops after turning it on, or when it fully empties of water and you completely refill it for some reason? Hard to explain, but after a couple cycles it goes back to perfection. Not a huge deal to me.- Once turning it on, it takes probably...45ish mins (give or take) to fully fill the chamber.- The chamber itself is not chilled, however the collection of ice keeps itself cold for a good while before it starts melting. A completely full container will take at least an hour or two before it is noticeably smaller in size.- It's not really the ice's fault but I prefer the ice straight from the machine over the stockpile I keep in my freezer. Once in the freezer, it (obviously) really solidifies and loses the satisfying softness! So my favorite thing to do is have enough in the freezer for if we have company (or if it is the summer time and my ice consumption is faster than the machine), and otherwise use it straight from the machine!- Because there's work involved with manning the ice maker (work I am happy to do for the payoff), if we are going to fill anything aside from a really small cooler, we will still buy bagged ice for that.

This is what peak performance of Chinese engineering looks like. Things just a trooper. Need a cold drink after smashing pi**ers with your wife??? Look no further than the ice genie 9000. Hate sleeping? Plug this bad chicken in and listen to it proceed to dump mediocre sized ice turds for an amount of time that could only be compared to a family guy cut scene. Haven't cleaned the filters once and the ice still has that great dirt tang I love so much that reminds me of my home planet. 100% recommend.

This ice maker has been a fantastic addition to our kitchen! It produces ice quicklly usually within 6 to 8 minutes and the small nugget cubes are the perfect size for drinks, smoothies, or even icing injuries. I love not having to deal with ice trays anymore, especially when guests come over or during hot Florida days.It’s surprisingly quiet while running and easy to use just fill it with water, press the button, and it does the rest. The machine also lets you know when the basket is full or if it needs more water, which is super helpful.i wanted something similar to sonic crushed ice and this was perfect

The ice is good from this machine but it takes along time to make a bag of ice and it makes loud noise. It cleaned well with the self cleaning mode. It just took to long to make a zip lock gallon of ice.

OMGoodness, I love my ice machine! How did I live so long without this? My refrigerator could never make enough ice for my use. I pack my glasses with ice, and use tons of it. I had to resort to filling ice trays to keep up, but never again! I set up the machine as per directions: you leave it sit for 24 hours before use. I checked the box and all the parts, filled it and turned it on. Within the first ten minutes, the ice began to fall. The first use takes the longest, but the next use is much faster. I turn my machine on an hour before I need ice, and in one hour, I have a full tray which I use in my glass. Then I keep it running until I don't need ice any longer. It is a little loud, but it's in the kitchen, away from the den and tv area, so it's not bothersome. Highly recommend this machine! It's a real workhorse.

The unit does what it's supposed to do. It's well made and doesn't take up too much room on the counter which is important to me as we have a fairly small kitchen. The sound of it is fine. Not too loud.I'm sharing a review because I had to do a lot of trial and error to get the unit to make ice in a way that worked for me.The default way of making ice that I tried, and that probably most people try is to just run the machine and throw the ice that's produced into a container in your freezer. For me this resulted in a block of ice because the cubes are very wet when they first come out. After a *lot* of trial and error I came up with this routine which works well.*Before taking the ice out of the machine shake it off in ice maker's basket as much as possible*Put the ice into a colander or similar draining device. Shake off the ice some more.*Put the ice into your freezer container and stir it into ice that's already in the container. This step is critical. Stirring the new wet ice in with drier already made ice will spread the water from the new ice around and help the new ice stay in separate nuggets and not freeze in clumps.*Wipe off excess water from the colander*Rinse and repeat

Appliance does exactly what I wanted. It makes ‘nugget’ ice and makes it fairly quickly. I got this for my wife who loves to ‘crunch’ ice (I know, it’s an iffy habit) and she loves being able to have a cup or two of ‘ice like I get at Sonic’ at home.