Great Ice Maker, compact size is perfect for our small kitchen. We have assembled bags of the spheres for larger parties or gatherings, it is a small unit and produces ice very quickly, it just can’t hold enough ice during parties or large family meals to keep up but the spheres are slower to melt than cubed or smaller ice and briefly placing the spheres in water before placing them in a beverage makes them clear and beautiful. The machine does make a small amount of noise when dropping the frozen spheres into the holding container, but it isn’t loud or intrusive, just the sound of something hard dropping on plastic. We use bottled water to help prevent mineral and chemical buildup in the machine. It is self cleaning and looks SO nice in our kitchen. If you leave the spheres in the holding bin they do melt but the water drains back into the machine to make more cubes so it’s efficient that way too! Highly recommend if you want a great Artisan Ice Maker at a great price!

This was a costly purchase, but worth it! The machine is easy to use and the spherical ice is the best. The only upgrade I made was to put it on a low turntable/Lazy Susan (that I constructed!) to enable the ease of turning it around to drain the unused water from the back. Luckily, my turntable was low enough that the machine still fit (barely) under the kitchen cabinet.

I got this as a gift for my dad and he loves it. It is a little noisy, but not intolerably so. It might startle you when it "drops it's balls" as he says, because it makes a pretty abrupt drop sound but it works great, makes spherical ice as expected, and is pretty easy to operate.

Have been using this ice machine since 5/16/25. Yesterday, 12/10/25, it just quit working. It's just making noise. My husband made sure it had water, cleaned it and checked to make sure that no hoses were clogged, then unplugged it and plugged it back in, but still nothing. Will be checking into warranty.

This is a fun, easy-to-use way to make ice cubes for fancy drinks. They are a bit smaller than the typical spherical ice cubes and you do have to use them within a reasonable amount of time or move to the freezer, but no more worry about the struggle of dealing with the spherical molds and they’re easy to pop out quickly.

I've had this machine for less than 6 months and it quit making ice.

Ice balls were not quite as big as i would have liked but it is extremely easy to use and produces a lot of ice.

Turned it on once and immediately decided to return it. The ice balls come out small, partially melted, and pretty underwhelming. I was expecting solid, well-formed ice spheres, but the results were nowhere close to what I expected. Definitely not worth it for me.

If I could give this ZERO stars, I would! I purchased this ice maker from Walmart. After about 3 months, it died. The warranty company decided to replace it after 2 more months of back and forth. The replacement worked great until about a month ago which was about 8 months after receiving it. I contacted Curtis International and they said they will not do anything to help because their warranty only covers the initial purchase. I would NEVER recommend this ice maker to anyone!

Great little set up. You can take the balls and put them in your regular freezer to firm them up