Newair Silver Counter Top Ice Maker Machine,Compact Automatic Ice Maker, Cubes Ready in under 15 Minutes,Portable Ice Cube Maker with Scoop and Basket,Perfect For Home/Kitchen/Office/Bar - ClearIce40

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This machine complained about not having enough water in it when I first started up onboard our bot despite having topped off the tank. Neither the manufacturer or Amazon could resolve the the issue but I was able to simply add some water to the bottom reservoir which created a syphon and got things going. It’s been trouble free since.It’s not the fastest machine but it’s quiet compared to larger ones from the same brand and makes lovely, clear ice.Note: Amazon sent me a replacement machine when I first reported the first one DOA. It had obviously been returned by a customer to the factory and sent immediately to Amazon for restocking. The original customer’s complaint was written on a sticky note still attached to the machine. Fortunately the first one I got was brand new. Kind of odd considering these were sold from Amazon directly.

I plugged this in on a 95 degree day (easily 80 degrees in my kitchen) and and within 30 minutes, I had a batch of perfect clear ice! The subsequent batches were even faster. The claims about fizzy drinks are totally legit. The drink stayed super bubbly the entire time I was drinking it.We don’t have an ice maker in our fridge and we were spending a bunch of money on expensive bagged ice that was always half melted by the time we got home. So an ice machine wasn’t just a luxury purchase, but we did decide to upgrade to this unit for the clear ice. Totally worth it!I just got this, so I can’t speak to durability. Hoping it will last a couple of years.

I am a heavy user of ice and the refrigerator doesn’t really hold up to my needs so for twenty years I’ve had $80-150 ice makers doing its thing day and night. They don’t last forever, but I am happy with anything that can give me four or five years of continuous use.So. I have lived with cloudy ice all my home life. My Frigidaire maker died and I needed a new ice maker. I started doing research instead of picking up whatever Costco features this week.The idea of clear ice sounded unnecessary to start with. I don’t drink nearly enough whiskey to be bothered by cloudy ice cubes. Sure, I’ve got a couple of ice ball makers and I get the idea of controlling the water dilution of your alcoholic beverage.But two things sold me on this ice maker - it produces a pretty large amount of ice (perhaps a little slower than my cloudy ice makers but when you’re into the production each finished cycle is easily more than twice as voluminous as the cloudy makers I’ve had.The other “feature” is that clear ice causes vastly less foaming in a carbonated drink. I thought this was a throwaway feature but is it not. It is my absolutely favorite feature of the clear ice. You can fill a glass of carbonated water a lot quicker when you don’t have to wait for the foam to dissipate. Snd the carbonation sticks around in the drink much longer.The clear ice also does not melt as fast as cloudy ice. I generally take a class of fizzy water to bed at night, in a yeti tumbler. With cloudy ice there is generally some ice left in the morning, but the glass is substantially fuller of remaining clear ice.There a “trick” not clearly labeled in the manual (and an ice maker manual is a rather cursory read) and that is how to make thicker ice cubes. You good the start button (when you turn in the appliance) for about five seconds, and you don’t get much in way of confirmation, but the ice making is a little slower and the cubes a good bit thicker.Now this comes at a price: when the flat sheet of thick ice cubes come off as a solid sheet, the anemic little plastic scoop is NOT up to the task of breaking up the sheet into individual cubes.Do yourself a favor and buy a metal scoop. Wait until you get the unit so you can measure what is a comfortable width and depth of your scoop. (And while you’re waiting for the new scoop, just run the ice maker in small cubes - the plastic scoop can handle that.)While I researched the Clear Ice Makers, I did see several that offered an attachment where you can use an external jug for water.Min retrospect, I would like to have a ten gallon set up, but I am so pleased with every other aspect of this ice maker that I would buy this unit again, in spite of not having an external water attachment. But: I’ve gotta have SOMETHING to complain about so you know that I really like the other aspects of the maker.You’ll be done with cloudy ice forever after this!

I got this unit to replace my older model by igloo, because it was so problematic. This ice machine is a BEAST! It never stops making ice, until the water gets depleted which takes days depending on how much ice you consume. I love this product and more importantly, I LOVE having perfectly clear square ice cubes.

Quick take: It makes enough ice per 15 minute batch for two 16oz drinks the way I like em. My fridge ice maker takes an hour for the same thing. I chose this machine as it was the least expensive machine that made clear bar / resturaunt like cubes and had tons of reviews.So that being said, how many times has the in freezer ice maker left ya stranded? Work all day, come home and find the thing only made 8 cubes.. You having some friends over? Better stop for ice on the way home.This machine solves all that!My experience: On first start up and fill up, it took about an hour to make its first batch of useable ice. Why? Looking how it works, the water tank on top is fed via a float switch to the front ice making tank. That water is drizzled over the chilled plate where it freezes, the excess going back in to be recirculated.So when you initially set it up, unless you have chilled water to start with it will take longer for that first batch of ice. Once that front tank is chilled down, it makes a cycle every 12-15 min. It takes 4 batches to fill the hopper and makes 8 batches on a full tank of water.So If you are willing to babysit it every hour, it will make that 40lbs a day.We’ve had the unit about a week now. We started moving the ice to the freezer then discovered we can’t out drink the machine and just take the ice from the hopper and leave the machine on the counter to tend to itself.I’ll update if I have any issues, but so far im drowning in iced drinks!