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142 of 145 humans found the following review helpful.
I love you, my extremely pleasing ice crushing machine!
By Amy Y.
The Waring IC70 is a MACHINE! This baby may crush my ice cubes any day. I’ve found the resulting ice chunks to be perfective for crunching and munching on(I have a compusive ice chewing habit). It is very easy to use, just plug it in, turn on the switch and dump in the ice cubes. It was crushing away on my countertop mere moments after our hottie UPS guy rang the doorbell. Essentially, feed ice cubes into the chute on top and a nice, big plastic bin beneath receives the lovely crushed output. The stainless steel housing is beautiful and understated, but this guy is a little on the huge size. Still, I’m more than willing to give up the counterspace in order to appease my crushed ice needs. I crush roughly 14 ice cube trays worth of ice a day and there is never a hitch. I have had ice cubes get wedged in the chute when I dump a whole tray of ice in at once but this is without apparent effort fixed by rocking it gently back and forth.
I found this product far superior to the Deni which makes sno-cone style ice and seemed rather rickety equated to the Waring. Also, much less work than the hand-cranked Metrokane Ice Crusher. This Waring IC70 makes outstanding crushed ice for bar drinks: perfective for my amaretto sours and mojitos- even margaritas on the rocks, likewise great for soft drinks. This does not formulate the consistency of ice necessitated for sno-cones or blended-style drinks.
61 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
Does what it says it does, and well
By John
I was tempted to buy a less pricey hand ice crusher, but then read a heap of of the disasterous reviews of those, and opted rather for this ice crusher based on most of the positive feedback. Knowing that it would not make “shaved ice” before I acquired it has held my expected values realistic, and it performs precisely as I thought it would, genuinely better. A friend thought I paid hundreds of dollars for this since it looks very no-nonsense and professional. It crushes the ice into random chunks ranging from pea-sized to marble sized, even altho I feed it pretty big cubes from a tray.
I have even frozen diet soda in a tray and fed it through to make flavorful “chewing ice” since I love to chew on ice. You may eat this “soda pop ice” in a cup with a spoon, and it is a lot less caloric than ice cream and satisfies the desire in the summer to eat something ice cold when it is hot outside. However, it is not to be confused with the productions you may buy at the comfortableness store since the chunks of this unit’s ice are much larger than those that come out of the “soft serve” units commercially found at comfortableness stores.
So if you are looking for shaved ice or “soft serve” ice, this is not the one to look at. But if you are just looking to crunch up ice cubes or like to munch on ice, I think this may be the way to go. After seeing what it takes to crunch up the huge ice cubes that I feed it, I’m in truth glad I did not go with a for less flimsier manual unit. I’m very happy with the results I have seen from this crusher.
44 of 46 humans found the following review helpful.
Great Product!
By Keith
This product is incisively what I had been wanting – a simple ice crusher that is easy to use. I had been using a blender before, and this is much less complicated and likewise not as loud. It makes somewhat coursely crushed ice (not shaved) that is outstanding for putting in cold drinks. The manual likewise talks when it comes to using it to formulate ice beds for serving feed on (such as shellfish). I guess that would be possible, though I think it would take a long time to make that much crushed ice. It takes around 1 minute to make sufficient crushed ice to fill an 8-10 oz glass. Also, the machine will on occasion freeze up (no pun intended) if you put in too much ice at once, particularly huge cubes. If that happens, you have to pour hot water into the top to melt the ice that is stuck.
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