Got this for my boyfriend as a Christmas present. he loves it, i love it! definitely worth the price, self cleanable and sure easy and small sized ice! quickly makes a lot! quiet too except for when the ice drops. small great size for a studio, apartment or dorm! would definitely recommend!

When you get the machine, take it out of the box and let it sit upright for 24 hours before turning it on. This will allow any fluids to return to their normal places. The second thing to do before using it is to run it for 4 cycles just to make sure any dirt or other particles are clear from the lines. This machine does make 9 cubes every 7-8 minutes as stated. There are 2 size options. There is very little difference in the two sizes so I chose small. To begin, you will pour water into the water tank but do not exceed the max full line (holds up to 16 oz water). If you do, the finished ice will sit in water and melt. Turn the machine on and it will go to work. In 7 minutes, the ice will drop and will be scooped into the ice basket. It is a good idea to empty the ice basket often because the machine is not a freezer so the fresh ice will gradually melt. If you are not able to empty the ice basket and it becomes full, the machine will shut itself off until it is emptied. It will also shut itself off when it runs out of water. The process will resume when you empty the basket or add water. It took exactly 2 hours to convert the 16 oz of water needed to fill the water tank to 2 ½ lb of ice (small cubes). I want to store my ice so I was able to fit 4 lb of the small cubes into a 1-gallon zip top freezer bag. Noise level isn’t annoying or disruptive at all. You will hear the motor and fan, and you will hear it drop ice, but you will not need to modify volume of speech or television. When I was finished, I ran the self-cleaning cycle. It took 13 minutes to complete. Then I pulled the drain plug located under the machine toward the left front. You will feel a rubber plug, simply pull it out and let the water drain. Do not pour the water out because you don’t want to cause redistribution of the fluids. I dried it thoroughly with a paper towel and let it air out for awhile before storing it. I give it 5 stars because it works great for me. I’m making enough ice for just myself and an occasional visitor but I don’t know if I would want to make ice for an entire family this way.

Our old icemaker finally failed to produce any ice at all so we replaced it with this new countertop ice maker. It is very lightweight, takes up less counter space, and makes ice cubes quickly. It is low noise when in operation and easy to fill with water. The transparent lid enables the ice cube amount in the catch-basket without having to lift the lid. Great value for the money.

There must be 50 or more of these icemakers on Amazon and everyone is one of the "bullet" type. Their hype reads the same because they are all basically the same icemaker with minimally different external changes. Many are virtually identical. All make 9 bullet icecubes & appear to be just one mechanism in a bunch of slightly different dresses. All made in China (when they are forced to admit it). Ice "cubes" are bullet shaped, with a hollow inner core, so maximum ice is exposed to your liquid, guaranteeing quick defrosting in a drink, not making it cold enough and diluting it. Best use is to put ice in a container & put it in your freezer, where it really will get colder & denser, while the machine is making more ice for when that is gone. If you think you're saving space in the freezer, you won't. Just another Amazon trick of having scores of "associate stores" selling the same product while appearing to be competitors, but really being the same essential machine. If one doesn't get you, another will. I want a machine that will make real ice cubes or crescents that have the density & minimal area exposed to the liquid in your drink so they don't melt in minutes. I have yet to find it. I'm going to return this fetid dingo's kidney of a machine. Note: it has twice hung up on me when it's sweep that is supposed to move all 9 bullets into the catch basin misses one because there is a blocking one already in the bin in that position & keeps on trying to sweeep it back in. The bin is not full, just that corner is blocked, but the machine is essentially doing a "wash, rinse & repeat" and will not make more ice until I push the cube into the bin myself. If you like chewing on ice, this is your machine. The ice is soft enough to chew on right out of the bin. Otherwise, stick with a refrigerator icemaker or several ice trays on a small rack in your freezer & resign yourself to refilling them as you empty them. What's Amazon going to do when the tariff is put on goods from China. Almost all of their current merch is Chinese or uses mainly Chinese parts (as does almost everything in your brick & mortar stores). There's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse over this last election as prices shoot up.

This little ice maker is great. It works quickly. The ice is not super hard. You can use whatever water you want. We use filtered water in it. It’s not a huge reservoir but enough for a few glasses.

Was an early Christmas gift. Our 1st one had a sensor issue and the manufacturer replaced quickly and for free! The 2nd one has worked phenomenal! Provides plenty of ice, for being 'small' for our family of 4 throughout the day. Many times, it goes into standby mode because it makes ice quicker than we use. Easy to use for all ages!

It works well for a house full of ice "crunchers". We just have to make sure Every. Time. The empty light comes on, we have to refill. It is SUPER easy to use. You don't have to add a water line. I wish I would have bought a bigger one that has water lined in. This works perfectly, though. My husband and kids go through over 20lbs of ice a day.

I like that it makes 2 sizes small and large small fits inside a water bottle and it doesn’t take long to make at all, I can make enough in couple of hrs to fill my ice bin in my freezer, definitely recommend easy to use and it cleans itself.