Silonn Nugget Ice Maker Countertop, Pebble Ice Maker with Soft Chewable Ice, Ready in 6 Mins, 34lbs Per Day, One-Click Operation Ice Machine with Self-Cleaning, for Home, Kitchen, Party, RV, Camping

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.

I purchased my machine over a year ago. It mostly runs nonstop 16 to 18 hrs a day. We love it. My husband was a bit skeptical as unlike me he’s not an ice heater about the nuggets ability to keep his drinks cold or melt too fast. It works great. He said he wished it made ice a little faster as far as filling the basket…..but when someone eats it by the bucket like me it doesn’t stay filled. Of course, I’ve seen reviews and laughed, about tge fact Ice doesn’t stay frozen. Of course it does but you have to use it within a reasonable time, it is not a freezer. It simply will just melt back down into the water week & be remade as ice again. If no plan to use it for a while, you will want a couple freezer bags and fill those for the freezer.😁If it does and at some point probably will, I will definitely be getting another one. Doesn’t take a lot of space, easy to clean, produces great product to ice eaters (and for icing your tea or soda)

Received this ice maker yesterday. I am pleasantly surprised! It is not loud at all. The first batch of ice actually completed in less than 6 minutes. It is truly the nugget, crunchy ice that most of us love. I do not regret buying this ice maker one bit! The packaging was perfect. All moving parts were secured with strapping tape, dense styrofoam around the ice maker, plastic wrap in a super thick box...packed inside of another box! Arrived in perfect condition. Simple to operate. The included scoop attaches to the side of the machine via a suction cup hook. You'll love it!

I am very happy with this buy,it's modern and stylish design looks very nice and clean on my countertop.Its perfect size for small spaces yet delivers big results, makes 26 lbs of ice in 24 hour and has 2 sizes of ice to choose from. Self cleaning& very easy to use!! Impressed with the lifespan as well its definitely lastest me a long while and it's still going strong. Great product!!!!Very pleased customer here, would most definitely buy again!!!

Great ice maker. I returned it just because you couldn't store the ice in it. You have to keep moving it to your actual freezer. If you dont mind doing that than its perfect but I do. I need something that would at least let the ice sit in there without melting and make it easier for my busy days. Not the case. But it is a great ice maker.

Don't use filtered water, it will give the ice machine a fishy smeell. Especially from Zero water (Culligan) water filter containers. Make sure tonuse tap water or bottled water. Bottled water might be best so you don't get the calcium build up.

This Ice Maker is Awesome!!!Just right for an apartment. Perfect little nuggets of ice I love to chew on. Ready in a matter of minutes. It does make a little noise, but I don't hear it anymore. It's minimal. This saves me room in my tiny freezer, and I don't have to fight with an ice tray. I highly recommend this Ice Maker! It ROCKS!!!

It's kind of crazy that something roughly the size of a coffee maker can produce over 1lb of ice per hour. It's so much easier than dealing with ice trays and cheaper than always buying ice. If my wife and I want to have drinks in the evening, we just fill it and turn it on at maybe 4:45; there's already plenty of ice when we clock out of work at 5:00—it's that fast.The only caveat is that if you want to use this as your primary ice maker—to stockpile ice to have at all times—it WILL fuse together in your freezer. This is still doable, you just have to transfer the solid block to a sturdy bag and smack it on the ground outside