Electactic Ice Maker, Commercial Ice Machine,100Lbs/Day, Stainless Steel Ice Machine with 48 Lbs Capacity, Ideal for Restaurant, Bars, Home and Offices, Includes Scoop

Ok, i love this ice maker but there are a few quirks that need be known to those wanting to buy one.
First, this is made to be hidden under a counter top or behind a bar. It’s kind of an eye sore sitting in the middle of my kitchen but i plain on building a shelve to hid it in.

Second, the instruction pamphlet’s that come with the ice maker have a lot grammatical errors and are a little hard to understand. Especially the area pertaining to the timer delay portion of your ice maker.

Third, on the first day i used the fill with external bottle technique and the ice came out crystal clear and tasted amazing. Had a full harvest within several hours but it used a lot of water making ice that way. I am an engineer so was able to tap into my fridge water line and add an inline filter for the supply line to ice maker. Now i still get the same amount ice as before but it’s not as clear as before. As a hvac tech i know that this means there is possibly contaminates in the water or air. I guess one could solve this problem by investing in a good quality water filter.

Fourth, and this is my biggest complaint. You can see by the pictures that i had to add an external pump to remove the water from the ice bin as the ice melts. This is not a cooler that holds the ice for days on end. I would have thought the manufacturer would have tried to reuse the water as it starts to collect at the bottom of the tank. This ice maker is made to be tied to a sewer drain line so that the melted ice water can be removed from the ice storage tank. I tried several different ways to drain the tank by hand but it makes a mess in doing so. I now use a water pump bought off of amazon. The gravity fed water flows out of ice tank and into a small pump. I reengineered the pumps water outlet line to supply the unused water into my dogs water bottle. Again when i bought the unit i hoped the ice maker would reuse the water to make more ice but i was wrong. .

So in conclusion i would say the ice maker performs to the quality as sold and i’m happy with my purchase but in a world where water is so precious i would like to see the melted water somehow get reused to make more ice. Also with the user manual please correct the grammatical errors and give a better description of operations on how the settings affect the operation of the ice maker.

This ice machine was the best purchase ever! I have been obsessed with sonic’s ice for years, and was so excited to see they sold a similar machine so i can munch on the delicious soft ice pellets to my heart’s content.
It works well, i haven’t had any issues. It’s fairly quiet for the most part, i like the self cleaning function and prefer to use filtered water but tap water is fine as well. It’s literally the easiest thing to work, you literally plug it in pour in some water and hit the start button and let her go!
A little trick i do is to put the ice in gallon ziploc freezer bags, -i double up each freezer bag because after being stored in the freezer it can tend to clump together a little due to a very small amount of excess water naturally because the ice is wet when storing the ice. So i gently break up the ice a little on the counter top or gently separate the frozen pellets using a small rubber cooking mallet or mashed potato masher tool on the outside of the bag(s) which i think is a brilliant way to store it. Love this ice maker and i would highly recommend! It is a little pricey when not on sale, but i splurged for myself and bought it for a great deal on amazon prime day, just a little tip.
However i do wish they offered some kind of a warranty for peace of mind going forward.

Let me start by saying i own a lawn company and have two crews. They needed ice water jugs during summer months so i decided to buy an ice machine. Thought name brand was the way to go. I bought a scotsman.
It was over $1300. Ran constantly, was noisy and really didn’t produce that much ice. I did like the quality of the ice that the scotsman produced, solid clear cubes. Then it just crapped out right after scale removal and sanitation it just quit making ice.
The new ice maker was very easy to set up. I already had everything ready from previous machine. Started making ice right away.
I turn it on before i go to bed and in the morning it has already filled the cabinet and stopped producing ice. I then turn it off, fill the water jugs and leave it off until night.
I wish i had bought this one to start with. Have had it for a few weeks and it performs wonderfully.
Check back with me next summer and i will let you know how it is holding up.

This ice machine has surpassed what i expected by a long shot. My only issue is that it makes ice so fast its more than i needed. The capacity and speed is great. Run it for 2-3 hours in the am and i can fill a cooler and still have ice for the day for the house. And the best part is that my wife loves it. Excellent product so far.

Was on the fence about purchasing a ice machine but i’m glad i did. If you understand how a ice machine behaves and this little beast works great. Plenty of ice when need the timer is a great feature. Was sick of running out to the store and buying ice for $6 a bag. Never again. Would recommend to anyone that camp’s, hunts, boats, entertains, or has a higher demand for fresh ice.

With recent high prices of ice we (group of 8) decided to chip in & get an ice maker. This little bugger fits our needs 100%!!! We have ice when we need it (every weekend with at least 6-8 coolers) and since we got it 3 wks ago, we figured we’ve saved well over $100. This machine churns out ice like crazy– i’m amazed. I make up & store 100-120 lbs of ice per week in an old chest freezer, packed in used plastic grocery bags. I had to run some plumbing & put a filter in line but that was easy. Very pleased with this machine.

We have it outside we have company people are drinking you have plenty of ice. I don’t hear the machine making noise just sometimes when the ice drops.

This ice maker is awesome and reasonably priced…. It keeps up with the demand of the hot summer working outside. Other than the noise level which can startle you when the ice drops i recommend this product….

First reason i bought it is the ’44 pounds in 24 hours’ claim. Probably correct but you’d have to babysit it the entire time because once the ice basket is full, the water trough is empty. Additionally, it claims to ‘self-clean’. This is not really correct. It will circulate the water for 15 minutes but if it isn’t clean when it begins ‘self clean’, it won’t be clean when it is done. Like many small ice makers, it leaves black pump residue in the upper and lower water reservoir that must be cleaned out. The upper reservoir is a complex set of features, making it difficult to clean. Just a ‘heads up’. It does make good quantity of ice fairly quickly. Over all, i’m happy with the performance but there is a few things you should know before you buy.

I read some reviews that were negative about the size of the blocks of ice that is produced. Here’s why i disagree. Some reviews say the ice cubes are stuck together as one large block of 48 cubes, and you can’t turn the machine down to get smaller chunks of ice. Well the instructions aren’t great about how to set the hardness from 0 to 5, so i want to let people know the hardness setting isn’t 0 to 5. It’s -5 to +5. It arrives defaulted to 0 for ice at the middle setting. If you want almost hollow soft chewable ice and smaller chunks, simply hit the minus button to go down to -5. The instructions were definitely vague, not written well, and the font size is not for an older person with vision issues. It’s only noisy when it’s empty and the first few blocks drop down to hit the plastic cooler lining, then it gets quieter when it’s just ice landing on ice. It has an auto-off lever inside so it will quit when it’ full.

Product came damaged due to shipping or storage but arrived quickly. I didn’t want to hassle with returning it, so i kept it. It was fairly easy to setup. The water line adapter (1/2′ adapter) does not fit on a sink faucet without another adapter. Seems to produce about the advertised 100lb of ice in 24hrs but it is hard to tell as the storage only holds about 25-30lbs and shuts down the ice maker.

The ice produced is consistent shape and size, and does well. However the ice is dropped into a tray that while still internal to the machine, does not keep ice frozen. You end up with a mix of half thawed ice and fresh ice that will half water a drink down. Not the worst, but could be better.

It’s not crazy fast, but it’s not super slow either. If you’re having a party, or filling up a cooler, you want to keep emptying the bucket into a bowl in the freezer and over the course of the day you’ll have enough. It’s a good purchase and would buy again

It’s nice and quiet, the only issue is the ice were come in a big block, have to many break it into small individual pieces

I wasn’t sure of the ice machine, but since i got it i have plenty of ice. The only thing that i dislike about it is when i take the plug out to empty water it takes a little bit of time. The grandkids like it. They can get ice when they want.

Quickly started to make ice. Very happy with purchase. I would recommend to family and friends.

Glad i purchased this one…

It is a fairly nice ice maker but when we received it it was broken! We can possibly tape it but shouldn’t have to do this on a brand new machine. So we will tape it and hopefully it will continue to work and not leak. More so of pain to ship it back then anything but okay machine also did not work when we received it.

It is not working as well as i want. It is acting up and may have to be replaced

Glad i bought this machine…..no more arguing about who got too much ice.