Our Favorite Countertop Ice Maker

Summer in our house means the ice runs out by noon. Eight people, everyone wanting a cold drink, the little ones fishing cubes out for no reason at all, and our freezer’s two little trays never stood a chance. Dad got tired of the daily complaint that there was “no ice again,” and hauling bags home from the store just meant a soggy freezer and a puddle by dinner.

The EUHOMY Countertop Ice Maker fixed the shortage without us thinking about it anymore. It sits on the counter, and it churns out a fresh batch of cubes in under fifteen minutes, fast enough to keep up with a crowd of kids who treat ice like a snack. The handle makes it easy to move to wherever the drinks are happening — the porch on a hot afternoon, the table at dinner — and it just keeps producing so the bin’s full again by the time it’s emptied.

We compared it against a couple of other countertop makers and briefly considered springing for a fridge with a built-in dispenser. The new fridge was wildly more than we wanted to spend to solve one summer problem, and the other countertop units were either slower or too small for our volume. The EUHOMY won on plain value: at $89.99 it makes ice faster than we can drink it, takes up little room, and cost a fraction of the fridge upgrade. It’s a small thing, but it quietly ended one of the most reliable summer arguments in our house.