Product Description

The Retro Ice Cube maker is portable for the home designed for counter top use to complement your kitchen, bar or office. This ice machine can produce up to 26 pounds of ice per day perfect for high demanding applications. This small ice machine quickly and efficiently makes perfect ice cubes. Just plug the Retro Ice Cube Maker in, fill the reservoir with water and watch the ice maker go to work. You?ll have your first batch in little as 6-15 minutes (depending on the environment temperature). Cubes available in 3 sizes; small, medium, large. Use tap or bottled water (Holds 1 Gal of water). Comes with an ice scooper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #195613 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: The Helman Group
• Model: RIC-100
• Released on: 2008-05-18
• Dimensions: 14.25" h x 11.80" w x 11.50" l, 31.00 pounds

Features

• Countertop appliance makes up to 26 pounds of ice per day
• Portable, retro styling; holds up to a gallon of water at a time
• Produces first batch in 6 to 15 minutes; drops 9 cubes per cycle
• Measures 11-1/2 by 11-4/5 by 14-1/4 inches
• Carries a 90-day limited warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
With its retro-style housing and portable design, this countertop appliance can produce up to 26 pounds of ice per day. The small ice machine works with regular tap water or bottled water and can hold up to a gallon at a time. Easy to use, simply plug in the unit, fill the reservoir with water, and it quickly and efficiently takes care of the rest. The ice-cube maker produces the first batch in as little as 6 to 15 minutes, and it drops nine cubes per cycle. A user-friendly push-button control turns the unit on and off, while a "select" button allows for choosing from three different size cubes--small, medium, or large. An ice scooper comes included. Ideal for use in the kitchen, bar area, or office, the ETL-approved ice machine measures 11-1/2 by 11-4/5 by 14-1/4 inches and carries a 90-day limited warranty.

Customer Reviews

A one-trick pony that performs well.
Although I purchased this product locally, I often come to Amazon to find out what others think of a product and what I wish I'd known before I bought it. Since no one has yet contributed a review of this item, I thought I'd share some thoughts to repay to Amazon the benefits I have received from other reviews in the past.

First, it doesn't really make "cubes." The ice it produces look like little knobs with holes in them. Better than cubes in that they have more surface area. But they aren't square.

More important, this is NOT a "freezer." It makes ice. Period. The ice drops from the nine little metal rods that protrude from the roof of the machine onto a shelf and a little blade pushes them into an internal, removable ice bucket. The bucket has holes in the bottom. As the ice melts, the water drips back into the reservoir underneath it and the machine makes more ice. The ice when in the machine is "wet" but doesn't stick together. However, if you take the ice out and put it into your refrigerator freezer section, the ice will freeze together. So, the design concept is that the ice maker is a closed system. You pour water into the reservoir, the machine makes ice rather rapidly and keeps making it as the ice slowly melts or you take some out. The machine has thick insulated walls that keep the ice from melting too fast.

Here's a worthy note. It consumes 1.9 amps when making ice and 2.7 amps when "harvesting ice" assuming 115 volts 60 Hz. Not bad.

I've only had mine for a day but it does what it claims to do. It just has some design characteristics I didn't expect. Nonetheless, it is a clever little device, not very large and quite attractive sitting on the kitchen counter. It has a white 6' long grounded power cord. It is fairly heavy and sits solidly on four rubber feet. It is quiet except when nine ice knobs drop onto the plastic tray inside. Then there's a muffled "clunk."

There's a 90 day limited warranty against defects in material or workmanship (which may not apply if you live in an implied warranty state). For service under the warranty, you have to return the ice maker to the distributor in CA so you may want to keep the box and packaging. Amazon may offer other remedies.