I rather enjoyed reading the reviews of the NewAir AI-210SS Portable Ice Maker
Let me share some of the great and not so great attributes. To tell you the truth there weren’t a lot of negatives, but the ones I did read are worth knowing. I’ll start with those.
There seems to be a general consensus that the ice can smell and taste of plastic for a couple of cycles. There are instructions on cleaning the ice maker before use and it seems like you might need to turf the first couple of batches.
This problem does concern me. In our environmental climate we are well aware of the nasties that go into plastic and personally I am on a mission to rid my home of as much of it as possible. It’s tricky to live completely plastic free especially if we want a few luxuries in life ie a portable ice maker.
Now this is fascinating. Apparently, you need a certain amount of minerals to help the conductivity necessary for the water level sensor to work properly, so ultra pure water makes the ‘low water’ sensor go off even if the machine is full.
We use a benchtop water filter, so I’m glad I read about that one.
The small and medium sized ice cubes are supposedly useless and you might get smaller cubes until the machine ‘warms’ up, but my Charlotte loves tiny ice blocks so I look at that as a positive.
Now let’s get to the great aspects of the NewAir AI-210SS Portable Ice Maker
It can be left outside when you’re camping and they can run 24/7 for a couple of weeks, maybe more. Also great for indoors in an office.
This might be a no brainer, but purchasing ice becomes obsolete. Nice! One review says it is beyond what the manufacturer promised and yet another person now has a very happy wife. What a bonus if purchasing an ice maker helps your relationship! Gotta love that 
The thing that stands out to me is even though some folks wrote the negatives, they were still very happy with their purchase.
