2024 the best ice maker review

Price: $249.99 - $195.68
(as of Dec 06, 2024 07:29:14 UTC - Details)

Making crystal-clear ice for cocktails is easy with the Newair Countertop Clear Ice Maker. You get all the benefits of perfectly clear ice - slower melting, better taste, less fizz - and all you have to do is add water*. Enjoy up to 40 pounds of crystal-clear ice per day. Intuitive controls make ice-making a breeze, while the insulated interior keeps cubes cold for longer.

1. Crystal-Clear Ice Made Easy

Home mixologists, meet your new best friend. The Newair Countertop Clear Ice Maker allows water to cascade over a super-cooled ice tray to freeze ice layer by layer, leaving no room for gas or other impurities.

2. The Clear Choice for Entertaining

Clear ice makes a big difference in the quality of your drinks. It melts more slowly so you don't water down high-quality scotch or tequila. It also generates less fizz so you never end up with a half-filled glass of soda or seltzer. And of course, it looks amazing and tastes even better.

3. Easy to Clean BPA-Free Parts

This ETL-certified ice maker comes with parts that are both easy to clean and BPA-free. Finished making ice? Simply remove the filters and rubber drain plug and wipe the interior with a sponge or rag. BPA-free parts mean clean, great tasting ice that is safe to enjoy as often as you like.

4. Simple, Two Button Operation

The Newair Countertop Clear Ice Maker features a super-simple two-button interface that lets you get down to the business of making and enjoying your favorite cocktails. Clear indicator lights let you know when ice is ready and when you need to add water without any guess work.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.4 x 14.25 x 13.88 inches; 0.01 ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ ClearIce40
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 5, 2018
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ NewAir
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B077SGV77B
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ China

Note: Please check the dimension and item weight of the product and confirm it fits your space. Voltage: 120 Volts
[MAKE CLEAR ICE THE EASY WAY] - Home mixologists, meet your new best friend: the crystal clear ice maker by NewAir. Make your first batch of ice in under 15 minutes and make up to 40 pounds every 24 hours.
[COMPACT ICE MAKER FOR ANYWHERE] - This Newair countertop portable ice maker has wide applications with compact size 11.1(D) 14.25(W) 13.88(H) inch. The portable and compact design make this ice maker perfect for kitchen counter tops, bars, office, and home.
[SIMPLE TWO BUTTON OPERATION] - There's no learning curve here. Simply turn the unit on and choose your ice size. Clear indicator lights let you know when ice is ready and when you need to add water without any guesswork.
[EXTRA THICK INSULATION] - Keep your ice colder for longer thanks to the ultra-insulated storage area inside this ice maker. Forgot about the last cubes? Water from melted ice drains back into the machine and is recycled in the next round of ice making.
Reviewer: B. W. Larsen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Clear Ice is the Way to Go
Review: I am a heavy user of ice and the refrigerator doesn’t really hold up to my needs so for twenty years I’ve had $80-150 ice makers doing its thing day and night. They don’t last forever, but I am happy with anything that can give me four or five years of continuous use.So. I have lived with cloudy ice all my home life. My Frigidaire maker died and I needed a new ice maker. I started doing research instead of picking up whatever Costco features this week.The idea of clear ice sounded unnecessary to start with. I don’t drink nearly enough whiskey to be bothered by cloudy ice cubes. Sure, I’ve got a couple of ice ball makers and I get the idea of controlling the water dilution of your alcoholic beverage.But two things sold me on this ice maker - it produces a pretty large amount of ice (perhaps a little slower than my cloudy ice makers but when you’re into the production each finished cycle is easily more than twice as voluminous as the cloudy makers I’ve had.The other “feature” is that clear ice causes vastly less foaming in a carbonated drink. I thought this was a throwaway feature but is it not. It is my absolutely favorite feature of the clear ice. You can fill a glass of carbonated water a lot quicker when you don’t have to wait for the foam to dissipate. Snd the carbonation sticks around in the drink much longer.The clear ice also does not melt as fast as cloudy ice. I generally take a class of fizzy water to bed at night, in a yeti tumbler. With cloudy ice there is generally some ice left in the morning, but the glass is substantially fuller of remaining clear ice.There a “trick” not clearly labeled in the manual (and an ice maker manual is a rather cursory read) and that is how to make thicker ice cubes. You good the start button (when you turn in the appliance) for about five seconds, and you don’t get much in way of confirmation, but the ice making is a little slower and the cubes a good bit thicker.Now this comes at a price: when the flat sheet of thick ice cubes come off as a solid sheet, the anemic little plastic scoop is NOT up to the task of breaking up the sheet into individual cubes.Do yourself a favor and buy a metal scoop. Wait until you get the unit so you can measure what is a comfortable width and depth of your scoop. (And while you’re waiting for the new scoop, just run the ice maker in small cubes - the plastic scoop can handle that.)While I researched the Clear Ice Makers, I did see several that offered an attachment where you can use an external jug for water.Min retrospect, I would like to have a ten gallon set up, but I am so pleased with every other aspect of this ice maker that I would buy this unit again, in spite of not having an external water attachment. But: I’ve gotta have SOMETHING to complain about so you know that I really like the other aspects of the maker.You’ll be done with cloudy ice forever after this!

Reviewer: Straight Shot
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 40 lb per day CLEAR ice with no plumbing hook-up
Review: Order arrived early, 7 days, in perfect condition. The NewAir ClearIce 40 is an amazingly small, but productive ice maker. It really does make 40 lbs of CLEAR ice/day. The ice bin holds 3.5 lbs, so it must be emptied every 2 hours. The overhead water supply reservoir holds just over 2.0 liters, or 2 quarts 4 ounces, and needs filling 9 times/day, or every 2 hrs 40 min. No supply/drain plumbing!The ice itself is very roughly a cube in shape. It is produced by a 3-high, 8-wide refrigerated grid. Water pours over the grid and gradually forms ice. This makes ice with no air, so it is crystal clear. When the machine is ready it switches from refrigeration to heating on the grid metal. In 30+ seconds it warms the grid enough to drop the ice into the ice bin below. Immediately after dropping ice, the machine starts making the next ice.The ice generally does not break into individual pieces to any significant degree when it falls in the ice bin. As other users have suggested, the ice can be broken up by dumping it into a large Ziploc bag and smacking it down on a hard surface to separate the individual cubes. You can put the ice bag in a freezer after that if you want, but you will need to smack that totally frozen bag of formerly wet ice down on a hard surface because the wet ice cubes will freeze together.The cubes produced by the above process are compatible with my freezer’s ice dispenser and crusher, which is designed for the usual crescent-shaped ice.This machine is great because it does not require a supply water and sewer drain hook-up, and it is about as energy efficient as can be.It takes more user effort to use than a commercial ice machine that just makes ice and dumps it in a very large bin, non-stop. Such machines have no refrigeration for the ice, so the ice is constantly melting and going down the drain, which adds to electricity cost.This ice machine uses 180W. In 24 hours this will be 4.3 kWh (30 to 80 cents) on your electric bill, in the production of 40 pounds of ice. It has implicit refrigeration of the ice storage bin because the very cold, 32° water pouring over the freezing grid falls below the ice bin, where it is re-pumped over the freezing grid, serving to refrigerate the ice bin compartment without hard freezing. This results in bin ice lasting well with little melting through the entire two hours to create six loads of ice, at which time you must empty the bin.The machine automatically stops when ice bin is full, and that ends refrigeration until either you dump the ice bin or some of the ice simply melts. Once the machine is waiting for you to empty the bin, the rate of icemelt increases because the refrigeration compressor stays off until some ice melts or you empty the 3.5 lb bin.The cost of this machine will be recovered after it has made enough ice to fill from a few dozen to several dozen bags of store-bought ice. So in the long run it will save on your cost of ice.

Reviewer: M. Maughan
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: there's nothing to like about this product
Review: this product advertises clear, attractive ice that's ideal for cocktails, but fails on every level. the ice is not clear, just as cloudy as every ice made in a fridge ice maker. I tried with both filtered and bottled spring water, same cloudy ice.the ice does not come out in nice cubes that you would want in a cocktail, it comes out in a block that needs to be smashed apart.the machine is loud. very noticeable while its runningthe manufacturer recommends cleaning it every few days, which it doesn't advertise up front. cleaning it is very difficult. it has two water reservoirs, one up top and one below. the bottom one has a plug to drain it, but the top one has nothing leaving you to either run the machine over your sink with the bottom plug undone or tipping the machine over in the sink to pour the water out.as the title states there's nothing to like about this ice maker. do not waste your money.

Reviewer: Jafierro
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Es muy practica y eficiente fabrica el hielo y lo conserva buen tiempo, la puedes dejar trabajando y se detiene sola si se llena, en general muy buena.

Reviewer: Andrew Hine
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great ice maker so far. I use distilled water and the cubes come out perfectly clear. I fill up zip lock bags for future use. The reservoir is quite large and makes ice very fast. I will post an update in a few months.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Do not buy this product. It is a toy not an appliance. THERE IS NO WARRANTY. CUSTOMER SERVICE IS Ai.

Reviewer: Gdo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Muy buen producto, fabrica hielos la verdad si lo recomiendo

Reviewer: Ismael G.
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Se descompuso en menos de dos meses de uso y eso que no se uso diario. Alguien me puede ayudar a la devolucion