Frigidaire EFIC103-AMZ-SC Counter Top Maker with Over-Sized Ice Bucket, Stainless Steel, Self Cleaning Function, Heavy Duty, Stainless

My husband was tired of travelling to the store every two or three days to buy me ice. Not just any ice at any store, it had to be a certain ice. Bless him, I have the best husband. I drink lots of ice water and love to chew on the ice. Our new home came with a fancy fridge with a built in ice maker/crusher that we don't use. The ice is too hard, and when you use the crushing option, it provides you with smaller chunks of razor like ice shards. Needless to say we don't even have it hooked up anymore. The ice I prefer is round with a hole in the center. I'm not sure how or why, but it produces a softer less deadly, chewable ice. I'm not a huge fan of the snow cone type ice as it melts too fast and even from the start there is really nothing to chew. So my husband figured he spends close to $400 a year on ice. This does not include transportation to and from the store. I found this ice maker online and he said "GET IT!!" I purchased it and told him not to get his hopes up because if I didn't like the ice it produces, it's going back. Well that isn't the case. I LOVE the ice, it's smaller and even softer than the ice we had been purchasing from the store. It also has the hole in the center of the cube, which makes me wonder if that is the key to soft chewable ice. The unit is fairly quiet. In fact it's much quieter that the refrigerator ice maker. I think it's because it has less of an ice drop to create that earth shattering noise. It works really fast. I've only made the large cubes, which are still fairly small, and it will produce them in about 10 minutes. It drops enough to fill a small glass, but in 10 more minutes you have more. We hooked it up, left the house for 2 hours and came home to a full bin of ice. I emptied into a large 2 gallon ziploc freezer bag. It took about 4 full bins to fill that bag up. When the ice enters the ziploc it's a little wet, so it tends to refreeze in the freezer and make a solid chunk. This chunk easily separates with one hard drop of the bag onto the counter, so this is not an issue at all. The 2 gallon bag takes up a lot less space in the freezer than the 20lb bag we had previously been buying. I primarily take from the counter top unit when I fill my glass and save my ziploc as a backup. The rest of the family uses a lot of ice and the unit does well to meet our demand. My only complaints (and they are by no means deal breakers) are that the counter unit is much larger than I was expecting. I wish it took up less space on the counter AND for being so large, the bin that holds the ice is rather small and fills up quickly. That's all.. Otherwise, I love it. So happy to have found it.

Lo amé!!! Le toma tan solo 6 minutos hacer los primeros 8 hielos, son de tamaño muy pequeño pero sin perfectos, avisa cuando la bandeja está llena y se detiene si detecta algo extraño, es muy intuitiva y es perfecta para fiestas pequeñas.

Simplemente no es funcional, hace muy poco hielo muy delgado y tarda horas en sacar un poco de hielo sumamente delgado. Dejé de utilizarla muy rápido, ya es un pisapapeles

I did get this to get some ice, because our freezer ice maker broke. The bill to fix the ice maker was 300, so I did get this ice machine and saved 200 in the process. It works great; it is fast and make ice reliably; although after a week, the water sensor went off. Fundamentally, when the botton area that contains the water, reach a certain level, the water sensor goes off and the machine stop, so you won't burn the pump. This machine has a design flaw from what I can tell, which cause the water sensor to fail; so even if there is no water or the water is low; the pump goes on, and if you are not careful, it will burn. The outcome of this is poorly made cubes; due to the fact that there is not enough water to fill the basket. I did contact the manufacturer to get an idea about a repair or replacement, since I have no time to verify if there is enough water, and for the first week, the low water sensor was working; stopping the machine and turning on the LED that indicate low water level. Other than that, it does its job, Ice stay cold for a while, but if you leave it in the machine, it start to melt and you end up with a melted mess of ice, instead than single cubes. so you may want to grab the ice as soon as it is done, and put it in the freezer; because this ice machine makes ice but does not act like a freezer. Last annoying thing is the cleaning part; since you need to open a side valve to purge the water from the bottom of the device. The hole used for purging is the same used by the pump to get the water; so there is always water in there, unless you dry the machine. Overall 4 stars for the fact that works as expected, but the sensor for low water died after a week, which is a joke.

This is a Wonderfully Amazing Machine!!! This is NOT a flimsy little machine. It is a heavy duty ice maker!!! It makes so much ice that I have to turn it off at times because my freezer is small and it gets full quickly!!! This machine has an off and on switch, so you can simply turn it off when you don't need it or when you have enough ice. The small ice cube setting makes a very large ice cube!!! It comes with a nice ice scoop that I keep in a gallon freezer bag in my freezer to dump my fresh ice into so that it will freeze hard. For those complaining about how wet the ice is when it comes out, the ice I buy in bags is wet, too!!! ICE IS WET before it freezes!!! Just put your fresh ice in a baggie, allow it to freeze hard, then break it up by slamming it on your counter, and dump it into your ice bag. At least, you won't have a huge lump of ice cubes all frozen together!!! This machine is heavy, so take it out of the box close to the table or counter where you plan to use it. You'll want to allow it to sit for 2 hours before using it because the Freon (or coolant) has to settle in the machine. The cleaning instructions are confusing, so I just wiped it down good and filled the reservoir. I threw out all the ice that it made out, drained it, and sopped up all the water, then refilled it. It makes ice very quickly, so soon I was putting ice in the freezer. I am so tickled!!! Now I don't have to remember to buy a bag of ice at the store!!! I am in ICE HEAVEN!!! This is a quality machine, so I don't expect any problems any time soon!!! However, if you are worried about it going out on you, buy the 4 year warranty like I did and then you'll have PEACE of MIND!!! UPDATE!!! In May 2018, after a year and 2 months of great service, this ice maker died! When I purchased my ice maker, I bought a 4 year warranty thru Square Trade. I have called and they have approved my claim and are going to send me a check!!! I went ahead and bought a new one. I hope that my new ice maker lasts as long as this one did!!!