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.
Frigidaire EFIC103AMZ-SSBLACK-SC SELF CLEANING AMZ-SSBLACK-SC EFIC103 Maker Machine Heavy Duty, 26lb Ice per Day, Stainless S
4.2 | 5,158 ratings
Price: 129.99
Last update: 11-03-2024
About this item
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LARGE CAPACITY - Its reservoir is located beneath the ice basket and can produce up to 26 Lbs. of clear ice cubes per day
EFFICIENT & EASY TO USE - In less than 6 minutes, you can make perfectly squared ice cubes and store up to 2.2 Lbs. at a time. The user-friendly & straightforward electronic controls will have you making ice cubes in no time.
VERSATILE - You have a choice to make Ice Cubes in two different sizes
MODERN DESIGN - Stainless Steel Ice Maker with a large transparent window so you can always see your ice being made.
FUNCTIONALITY - When the basket is full, our ice maker indicators will remind you to take out the ice cubes, and when the ice maker is low on water, they will alert you to add more.
AUTOMATIC SELF-CLEANING PROGRAM - Plug on the unit, then press “ON/OFF” button for more than 5 seconds to enter the self-clean program. Self-cleaning program need 30 minutes. When the program is over, please drain out the water and clean inside.
LARGE CAPACITY - Its reservoir is located beneath the ice basket and can produce up to 26 Lbs. of clear ice cubes per day
EFFICIENT & EASY TO USE - In less than 6 minutes, you can make perfectly squared ice cubes and store up to 2.2 Lbs. at a time. The user-friendly & straightforward electronic controls will have you making ice cubes in no time.
VERSATILE - You have a choice to make Ice Cubes in two different sizes
MODERN DESIGN - Stainless Steel Ice Maker with a large transparent window so you can always see your ice being made.
FUNCTIONALITY - When the basket is full, our ice maker indicators will remind you to take out the ice cubes, and when the ice maker is low on water, they will alert you to add more.
AUTOMATIC SELF-CLEANING PROGRAM - Plug on the unit, then press “ON/OFF” button for more than 5 seconds to enter the self-clean program. Self-cleaning program need 30 minutes. When the program is over, please drain out the water and clean inside.
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J
The Opinion of a Chewable Ice Connoisseur
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2017
SilverCore Labs
Very happy with purchase so far, fits and looks nice on the countertop
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023SAMIAM
Works great for the price
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2024CF
Efficient but sensors are pretty bad
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2018