Portable Countertop Clear Ice Maker Electric Maker Machine 48 lbs Per Day, Make Real Clear Ice Cubes

I ordered the Sentern portable ice maker after a lot of consideration and reading many product reviews. Some were cheaper and more in the price range I wanted, however I also wanted one that produced ice that didn't melt quickly and produced ice quickly. This ice maker is fantastic, actually the production is faster than I use (I cut off the unit until I'm ready for more), the ice cubes are just the right size to fit in stacked 2x3 rows of ice for my water tumbler and the ice stays ice and cubes don't melt quickly. LOVE this machine, very happy with all it does. It has an automatic shut off when ice tray is full, shuts off if the water level is low, is very quiet, cubes, although coming out in full sheets or half sheets are very easily broken apart by hand. The only time the sheets are frozen too thick to easily break apart is when the ice tray is full and the sheet in the form can't empty and more ice forms on top. In that case, which is rare for me, I turnoff the machine, let the ice in the form melt a little and soon it falls into the tray. I LOVE this machine! I use only filtered water in it, use it every day, most of the day, use ice for my filtered drinking water (I don't like the taste of treated county water or room temperature water), and put cubes in my ice cooler.My research showed the round bullet ice melts relatively fast, not so these cubes. I drink from my insulated water tumbler all day; I fill it with cubes and water in the morning, refresh the cubes about once during the day and still have cubes in the tumbler by evening. So far so good with this unit, it is worth the price. I'm very satisfied, no complaints on speed of making ice or having the ice expended in the tray in sheets or half sheets--no problem at all, the cubes are easy to break apart by hand. It's compact, fits easily on the end of my kitchen counter and underneath my top cabinets. Water reservoir is filled from the top, controls are on the front and let you know if the water level is low. Very nice machine.

I did a tremendous amount of research before purchasing this Sentern CLEAR ICE maker. I was prepared for the many things others have complained about. What you need to know...Portable ice makers will NOT make ice like a full size refrigerator ice maker. Portable ice makers have a storage section, but is NOT a freezer. This makes clear ice cubes, not white bullet shaped ice. Clear ice is harder, and has a lot less air in it, therefore, it melts much slower. It does take 20-30 minutes (for the largest size of ice) per batch, but the quality is a lot better than the ice makers that make bullet ice. The largest size is about 1" square and does general have a small dip in it at one end. The ice does come out wet as part of the process (all clear ice from a portable/countertop ice maker will come out this way). It also comes out in a "sheet", but it does break apart easily if you do it before putting in the freezer. We go through a ton of ice in our home, so we make ice every 3 days for a few hours at a time. We freeze it in zip lock freezer bags and then transfer it to our ice maker bin in the freezer. It generally needs to be broken apart again, but if you break the sheets apart before freezing, it takes very little effort (I use a butter knife). I should probably mention that the machine is very quiet. The loudest part is when the ice drops into the basket, which is plastic, so it's not all that loud. I will say that the ice scoop is plastic as well, so it's not very functional. All of the pre-purchase research that I did certainly paid off and I am extremely pleased that this is the one I chose. BTW, I did not receive any compensation in any way for writing this review, I only wish to save anyone looking into ice makers a little bit of time and confusion.

It's amazing how much ice this thing makes, even with the longer freeze cycle for larger cubes. For the first time we've had to store extra ice in the freezer. It's very strange to watch it make ice, and you have to ask "how could that ever work?" But it does, and works well. This replaces a cheaper bullet-style ice maker that broke down after only a year. The quality difference in the ice produced by the two machines is quite significant.Pros- hard, clear, large ice cubes- quiet (most of the time)- lots of ice for family of 6- easy operation, I think I've only ever changed the ice size and pushed the on buttonCons- it's slower than bullet-style ice makers (but worth the slightly longer wait)- the ice scoop and ice bin feel very flimsy, the ice scoop can be replaced with a metal one easily, but I worry about the ice tray breaking over time due to fatigue. The tray is flimsy enough that I worry about cracking it just digging around in the ice with the (equally flimsy) scoop. I hope it's easy to replace the tray if needed- when first starting up and when it stops making ice (due to low water or full ice bin) it can get a little noisy as the condenser (?) spins up/down.- it's a little tall, tall enough that you have to consider convenient access to the water filling hole on the top if you place it on a counter with cabinets above. We have to open the cabinet door above to have enough room to reach the filling hole, but we could probably find somewhere else to put it.So it's early days, but so far very impressed with this machine. Worth every extra penny. Would have been five stars if the ice scoop and tray were a little more hefty.

it is a clear ice maker and worked great for about 5 days and then it stopped making clear ice an started making cloudy ice and i cannot reach sentern to find out why???????