Northern Polar Cube Elite Stainless Only $274.21 @ Amazon Rated 4 of 5 Stars by 2 Buyers!

Northern Polar Cube Elite Stainless

Got the now unavailable cheaper model despite a good deal of negative reviews regarding little cube size and slushy consistency. Largest size is ~1.5cmX2cm; ice was slushy (better for your teeth whether or not you habitually chew) — but I decisive to post a review after using home distilled water ($99 unit, google and see unreputable-looking ad) — someone fewer full of BS than myself will explain it better, but water needs impurities to form ice crystals; well water creates regarding 9 cubes after 6 minutes, and rest assured the entire basket does fill up; 1st 6 minutes with distilled water yielded a single sliver of ice. A couple of hours later (MUCH longer than with well water) I had a full basket of black-hole-dense, super-clear, diamond-hard ice, like I’ve never seen before. I’m a 3-lighter-a-day smoker and live with various of every type of mammal, so I suspect it took that long for “impurities” (or as the mammals call it, “fiber for your lungs”) to get into the Polar’s water schemes whether or not instead it takes as a great deal of hours to refill the basket, I suspect the water’s few impurities just got the slow crystallization routine rolling and this will be the case with every subsequent cycle — if I get raring I’ll cut the distilled water with well (or tap or bottled or plainly plainly water.

I don’t sell distillers (if I did I’d attempt to spell them in the right way on my super-discount-distiller site) but I’m a fan — but then I’m killing 500+ watts for 2 hours, then running this 100- watt Polar unit — but then the distiller is a fantastic space heater and warm humidifier. I’d be surprised if I refill the Polar with water twice a week, though I fill a pint glass 4 or 5 times a day with ice. But now that I have super-pure-supercooled rock-hard ice I’m going to need an industrial ice crusher. But industrial ice crushers make for wondrous relaxing white noise machines…

I usually will not order anything that has not been previously reviewed and gotten good reviews but I let the price dictate my ordering in this case and not the reviews. This was a large fault Item was a convenient size and would have been okay if it had worked. I followed the set up directions and used the required amounht of water. I tried the smallest size setting to start with and obtained 4 small ice cubes in approximately 6 minutes. Unfortunately, that was all the ice I obtained at any size. After the introductory 4 cubes I begun smelling a very strong odor that soon could be smelled across the house.

I have returned this ice maker and I have ordered another brand that had very good reviews. This has taught me a very worthful lesson about buying a “pig in a poke”.