Magic Chef Portable Countertop Ice Maker
Product Description
Portable countertop ice makerMakes ice in 6 minuteswww.magicchef.com
Magic Chef Portable Countertop Ice Maker
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Portable countertop Ice Makers Reviewed
March 9th, 2010 at 1:09 am
I bought this because we do a lot of entertaining, and I thought it would be nice to have an ice maker instead of buying all the bags of ice. But it doesn’t store the ice… the fine print in the instruction manual says “it is NOT a refrigerator”. Too bad I didn’t see that before buying. My friend has had a portable ice maker for years, but it also stores ice, so it is really convenient. Hers was on the high end, this is on the low end. Even if you empty it every 15 minutes and dump in a cooler, it starts to melt in the cooler before you can get it filled up. I’m selling this at the next garage sale and in the meantime, I’m getting a “better” one.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 1:22 am
This machine works great except for one very important item. If I don’t empty the ice basket quickly, i.e., soon after it fills, the ice begins to melt. Is this normal or is this a defect in the machine? This is being used in a mobile home clubhouse for our parties which are about four a month. Should it be disconnected in between parties. If I fill it with water at 10am and come back at noon, the ice has been melting. Please let me know if this happens to you.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 1:57 am
It works as described.
Quiet and pretty quick.
The tank sits under the bin so basically you remove the collection tray and pour the water in.
It makes up the ice and dumps it in this small tray.
As the ice melts it goes back into the tank.
The ice tray could be bigger to allow for larger capacity. But hey,
it’s not a commercial unit.
It’s good for say, parties were you may be making a fair amount of mixed drinks at a remote location.
Also you should drain out the water and not let it sit for more than 24 hours.
For the price you really can’t beat it.
All in all not a bad unit.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 9th, 2010 at 3:04 am
We purchased this ice maker in September 2008. We were so very happy with the ice maker. We kept it next to the freezer and would transfer the ice to a huge bucket for storage. I would guess that, over the 8 months it was operational, it saved us so much money compared to purchasing the 20 lb bags of ice from our grocery store at $5.00 each.
In May 2009, the ice bucket arm (made of plastic) broke. Like an idiot, I had thrown away the receipt. It is under warranty through Magic Chef for one year…but not unless you have your receipt. Magic Chef said they will send me the part for free, but it is currently on back-order until the 2nd week in July. At that point, I will need to take it apart myself and hope I can put the new ice bucket arm in without ruining it.
So, overall it was a great investment…but it did break. 3 stars is the best I can do. Anyone buying this just needs to hold onto their receipt!!
Rating: 3 / 5