GE Profile Opal 2.0 with 0.75 Gallon Tank, Chewable Crunchable Countertop Nugget Ice Maker, Scoop included, 38 lbs in 24 hours, Pellet Ice Machine with WiFi & Smart Connected, Black Stainless Steel
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GE Profile Opal 2.0 with 0.75 Gallon Tank, Chewable Crunchable Countertop Nugget Ice Maker, Scoop included, 38 lbs in 24 hours, Pellet Ice Machine with WiFi & Smart Connected, Black Stainless Steel
· OPAL NUGGET ICE, THE GOOD ICE - Serve up chewable, crunchable, craveable nugget ice that's ready fast and retains its flavor, unlike traditional hard cubes. Refreshing nugget ice is made from compacted ice flakes and is perfect for your favorite beverages · 38 POUNDS OF ICE PER DAY - Begin enjoying your first batch of ice in 10 minutes or less. Never run out of nugget ice thanks to a large capacity ice maker that makes 1.6 lbs of fresh ice per hour and holds up to 3 lbs at a time · BUILT-IN WIFI AND VOICE CONTROL - Pair your ice maker with the SmartHQ app to monitor device status and schedule fresh ice. Receive automatic software updates that include ice maker features and access voice control capabilities through Alexa and Google · WATER TANK - Eliminate the need for an outside water source with an attached water supply for ice, which allows you to produce up to three times more ice and easily detaches for clean up · CONVENIENT CLEANING SOLUTIONS - Advance cleaning system that helps sanitize and descale when used regularly, keeping ice tasting fresh and machine performance at its best. Water filter (P4INKFILTR) and cleaning kit (P4INKCLEAN) sold separately · LED DISPLAY SCREEN - Precision control is available at the touch of a screen thanks to an intuitive LED screen that illuminates when being used and darkens when at rest · BATCH MADE ICE - Innovative design avoids clumping and leaks by recirculating melted ice to the water reservoir. You'll always have fresh ice on hand thanks to a smart, automatic ice maker that refills when your ice is running low
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30-INCH UNDER-CABINET RANGE HOOD INSERT: Fits neatly underneath cabinets to offer a complete solution to your kitchen ventilation needs by providing both an exhaust fan and overhead light
IMPROVES KITCHEN AIR QUALITY: Provides a MAX 230 CFM and 6.5 Sones performance to quickly remove smoke and cooking odors from the air, and the 2-speed rocker switch allows for quick fan adjustments
INTEGRATED LIGHTING: Built-in light with protective lens accepts up to a 75W incandescent bulb (not included) to evenly illuminate your cooking area and is controlled by a rocker switch for ease of use
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One-Button Operation with Large Capacity: With just a simple press of a button, you can start making ice quickly and easily, without any complex settings. Fill its tank with 4.6 Cups of water and enjoy up to 34 pounds of ice in 24 hours. Despite its compact size, it delivers big on performance, offering a full range of ice types - from crunchy to chewy ice. It's perfect for personal or home use, ensuring you always have ample ice that's just right for your needs.
Easy to chean with Advanced Design: Unlike other machines that pose a challenge on busy mornings with complex disassembly and cumbersome cleaning steps, VIVIDMOO offers a simple, self-cleaning function. Just press and hold the 'ICE/CLEAN' button for 5 seconds, and a quick routine ensures your ice maker is ready to deliver fresh, clean ice. It's a true game-changer for those who value cleanliness and efficiency. The top-open lid design is ideal for thorough, deep cleaning.
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User-Friendly Design for Optimal Convenience: This countertop ice maker includes a thoughtful ice scoop holder, ensuring the scoop is always at hand when needed. This convenient design allows you to easily locate the scoop before making ice, streamlining the process of retrieving or storing ice cubes in the freezer. Additionally, it features a transparent window, providing a clear view of the ice status without the need to open the machine.
Infrared Sensor to Prevent Overflow: Equipped with a precise infrared sensor, this ice maker automatically prevents ice overflow, maintaining a clean and efficient operation. This sensor is especially useful in managing the ice level, ensuring the basket never overfills.
Circular Indicator Light: This nugget ice maker has a circular light to notify you when it's time to refill water or when the ice basket is full. This is especially handy in busy kitchens, family gatherings, or parties, ensuring a steady ice supply without guesswork. Whether entertaining guests, preparing for a barbecue, or meeting daily hydration needs, the indicator light keeps you informed.
Compact and Portable:The lightweight and portable design of the mini–ice maker makes it easy to store or carry, just 8.8(W)*11.6(D)*11.4(H) inches and weighs less than 14lbs, more light than other brand, widely used in home, kitchen, office, bar etc.
Quickly Ice Making: Just pour water into the ice maker, run it for 6-8 mins, then you can enjoy 9 ice cubes. It even can produce up to 26 pounds of ice per day, will be a perfect substitute for the old one in your home.
Self-cleaning function: With self-cleaning function, just press on/off button for 5s to start self-cleaning mode, which allows you not to worry how and take time to clean it. Add a little lemon or soda to help better cleaning.
Quiet Operation: Operates at a low 35 decibel level, so you can have a quiet environment. This ensures that you are not disturbed by noise.
Easy to use: Just fill the ice maker with water (less than 1.2L), press the ON button. With infrared sensor, when the ice basket is full (over 1.3lbs), or the water is insufficient, the indicator light will turn on, it will stop the ice making.
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Crunchy Chewable Nugget Ice - With the nugget countertop ice maker, you can make ice that tastes just like crushed ice at home and enjoy it anytime, anywhere! Enjoy your summer drink faster and with less melting with ice makers countertop nugget ice cubes. Unlike bullet ice and square cube ice, nugget ice melts slowly, quickly chilling drinks and preserving the original flavor of cocktails and other beverages.
Fast and Efficient Ice Making - This counter top ice machine maker can produce soft, crunchy, and chewy pebble ice in 6 mins and can produce up to 34 lbs of clear ice per day. You will never run out of ice, say goodbye to anxious waiting, and enjoy a continuous supply of fresh Sonic ice. No need to the store for ice anymore!
Self Cleaning Ice Maker - Press “ICE/CLEAN” button for 5 seconds, the ring indicator light flashes white. The countertop nugget ice maker will run the self cleaning program for 15 minutes and then automatically exit. Press this button again during the cleaning process, the mini ice maker machine will exit immediately. You can enjoy healthy and fresh pellet ice cubes anytime. We recommend cleaning the nugget ice machine and ensuring the ice makers interior is dry before long-term storage.
Quiet and Easy to Operate - Our ice machine maker countertop has low ice making noise, ensuring you have a quiet environment. The one-button design is very user-friendly, the pebble ice makers countertop use intelligent infrared to detect ice full status, through the large transparent window, you can check the ice storage situation.
Portable & Small Footprint - This crushed ice makers countertop measures just 11.3 x 8.66 x 12.68 inches. Large-capacity basis, small footprint, compact enough to fit right on your countertop and perfect for use at home, in the office, or at parties. Take this ice maker nugget wherever you go and enjoy frozen treats with friends and family. If you have any questions about using our sonic ice makers, please reach out to us anytime! Our customer teams are always ready to help you with anything you need.
Strong Ice Making Capacity: The ice makers countertop features a high-efficiency compressor with strong ice making capacity. This nugget ice maker can produce up to 55lbs/day, and has a low noise level. Aeitto ice machine can bring you an efficient and fast ice maker experience.
Rapid Ice Release In 5 Mins: This nugget ice maker features advanced technology that releases ice in 5 minutes, reducing wait times and letting you enjoy your drinks and parties sooner. In order to better protect ice machine maker countertop, it off less than 3 mins before the next turn on will first run 5 mins of water pump cleaning.
Larger Water Tank&Ice Basket: With 3.6 L water tank and 3.2 lb removable ice basket, this nugget ice maker countertop allows you to make large quantities of ice with a single fill of water without frequent refilling. Whether you're hosting family gathering, large party or just everyday ice, this large capacity ice maker machine ensures that you always have enough ice to meet your needs.
Automatic Ice Making Cycle: This nugget ice maker has an automatic ice-making cycle. This nugget ice maker stops when the ice level is above the infrared sensor and resumes after 30 minutes when the level drops below the sensor. This ensures you always have ice ready when needed.
Self-Cleaning Function: The auto-clean mode eliminates tedious cleaning tasks. Press and hold the "CLEAN" button for 3 seconds to activate the cleaning mode. After 15 minutes, the pellet ice maker will be clean.
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【15L Capacity Upgrade】】Unlike traditional 6-9L washing machines, our portable washing machine has a super large capacity of 15L! Ensuring you can handle more laundry at once for increased efficiency
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Jenna VandermeyReviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
I love, love, love my Opal icemaker! It was expensive, but I saved up to buy one after I saw one at my friend's house. It is so neat! It makes the ice like you get in your drink at Sonic. It's tiny and crunchy and perfect for all my drinks. It is a little bit noisy, but it only runs until the ice bin is full, then it stops on its own. I imagine I could empty the bin into another container to keep in my freezer so I could have tons and tons of this great ice to use at a party. The bin on the icemaker doesn't hold a lot, so when the item description says it will make 38 pounds in 24 hours, I would HAVE to do that. The place where you pour in water (without the side tank) isn't very big and would only support filling the bin up about halfway. You need the side tank or you'll be filling it up every hour or so. I like that I can turn the light off or have it bright or dim. I haven't messed with the WiFi or voice control, so I can't speak to that. I don't know why anyone would give it fewer than 5 stars. Buy one! You'll like it.
SunshineReviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024
UPDATE: I got the third unit and IT'S ALSO DEFECTIVE. I'm convinced there is ZERO quality control going on at GE, and I am extremely dissatisfied with the service. It takes AGES to get anything done, and their support phone line closes before I get off work most days, so it's near impossible to reach them on top of that. I can't use the actual word here, but enborkification is very real, and I will not be purchasing from GE anytime soon. TL;DR: Great machine if you can get a good one. I got three defective units in a row, one of which appears to have been used before. Currently waiting for a FOURTH replacement unit. Customer service has inconvenient hours and seemingly can't play most video files (.mov with h.264 seems to work best for them). 2/3 of the reps I spoke to were great, the other one being frankly pretty rude. For now, I'd recommend getting a 'dumb' nugget ice maker, a cheap outlet timer (like the ones for fish tank lights) if you need the scheduling feature, and set calendar alerts for cleaning and descaling. I want to start off by saying I love this ice maker. Nugget ice is great, I love the smart features, I love the design, and I love how easy it is to use. The instructions, especially in the app, are clear and thorough. The machine tells you exactly what it needs on both its display and through push notifications to your phone. The scheduling feature is great, and allows me to have ice in the morning and when I get home without wasting energy when I'm away. It's decently quiet for the amount of ice it pumps out with the occasional fit of light noise, mostly quiet squeaking every now and then. That is if you get one that works properly. Now, for how expensive this thing is, I would expect some good QC. My first unit developed a rapid tapping noise whenever it was running within the first couple of months. Since this was near a major living area in my home, this was unacceptable. I do not have hard water where I live, and I only ever put filtered water through it. I cleaned it whenever the cleaning light came on, and I took very good care of it. After some fruitless troubleshooting, I decided to contact customer support only to find out you can only CALL them since Opal apparently has its own support separate from GE. This would have been fine, except I had to take time off work to contact them, as their business hours lined up perfectly with my own work schedule, not that I could have known that going in since Opal Support doesn't have its hours posted anywhere at time of writing. Having done that, they actually took my call quite quickly and were pretty friendly and attentive despite connection issues from a storm at their office at the time. They sent me an email so I could reply with the information they needed. Their computers seem to have trouble with certain video files, so if you need to send them videos, make sure you sufficiently compress them and do NOT use HVEC encoding or the MP4 video format. After working through the technical difficulties in communication, they sent me an advance replacement, which was great and more than I was expecting. I thought that'd be the end of it, but I had issues with the replacement immediately. The replacement I got looked used (not refurbished), and since I initially paid for a NEW unit, I was pretty disappointed. There was a large scratch across the top panel, a scuff on one of the sides, and a chip in the front control panel that could be seen from across the room. Even after bringing this up with support in a follow-up email, they said I still had to send the first one back since the RMA was tied to its serial number and I would need to initiate another exchange, so I set up the second ice maker and cleaned it thoroughly. After turning the second one on, it was noticeably louder than the initial one. It buzzed loudly like a power transformer, but that wasn't even the worst thing about this one. On top of making ice more slowly than the first one, it shuts off and refuses to make ice seemingly at random. Every time this happens, it needs to be unplugged for 20-ish seconds, then plugged back in and have the power button pressed, which is tough on my knees since it's plugged in under my counter. Consequently, the scheduling feature, one of my favorite things about this machine, is no longer reliable since no one knows when it will decide to go on strike. I tried to contact support via email again, but even after a few attempts over the course of just over a week, I didn't get a response, so I had to take more time off work to call their support line again to talk to a rep. This time, I was on hold for about 15 minutes with an estimated wait time of 0 before being connected to a rep. This rep, unlike the first, made me feel like I was inconveniencing her by seeking support, and like I was an idiot for asking clarifying questions to make sure we were on the same page. She also seemed like she wanted to pass me off to Opal WiFi support (which is bafflingly ALSO its own separate service) to troubleshoot the "connection issues" I wasn't having with this device. I was told to send more info to our existing email chain and the rep hung up to "let me do that" rather than just hanging on the line while I did. After sending the info, I was connected to a different rep and had a better experience similar to my first contact (no wait time, friendly rep), which was a relief. A second exchange is now arranged, but this time I'm not getting an advance replacement and I will be without ice for about two weeks. For something this expensive, this level of QC is frankly embarrassing. I bought it in May of 2024 and still don't have an acceptable unit. I'm starting to think they're taking this long on purpose to dodge honoring their 1-year warranty. With service and QC like this, I cannot in good faith recommend this product, as much as I liked it the first month I had it.
Trish in So CalReviewed in the United States on September 20, 2022
UPDATE - so after pulling off the back panel & trying everything under the sun to get the water tank to start flowing again, my husband noticed the little pump balloon looked clogged. So with a few quick succession of squeezes, water started flowing again. We descaled it using vinegar & through cleaning cycles for about 2 hours. We also used a straw brush to descale the inside of the tubing on the back of the machine. We stopped cleaning when there was no more scale visible in the water. All the issues we were having are resolved. It’s quiet and making ice quickly & nicely chewable. Lol From now on, we will descale each week to keep it clear. A small task given how much we love the ice. Did I mention we love the ice nuggets? Loved this machine for about a month. Then it began screeching like a cat being killed. Then it started making other strange noises. Ice wasn’t made as often. Sometimes not at all. Constantly on defrost. We’ve tried everything to clean it, remove scale & all the other things in the booklet to address these issues to no avail. Now it won’t run water through it when there is water in the reservoir. I’m beyond frustrated. We found a lot of people on diff sites abs even YT to address the same issues we had but it’s been useless. GE warranty is very limited so if they say we did something wrong (like what tho bc we’ve done everything we read in the booklet) we’re out the money. I will call but have my doubts. I wish it worked.
Macy T. JacksonReviewed in the United States on March 31, 2025
It works amazing. It’s exactly like sonic ice and it’s easy to clean and to fill. It’s fast and simple to use. I love it
AndiReviewed in the United States on February 28, 2025
I have had this ice maker for just over 3 years, and have pretty much loved it. It is an automatic kitchen upgrade just because of its aesthetic. The ice is delicious and the regular sound it makes is not bad at all. I also love the "night light" feature. I had my eyes on this appliance for years before we purchased, and I have no regrets just yet! Now for the notes. I have seen my husband do the routine system cleaning and it looks quite laborsome. We have also noticed a really loud kind of "squeaking" sound recently. It got really loud so we have it unplugged this week. A little background, my husband works on household appliances for a living and we still can't figure this out. I would hope this isn't a sign that the product doesn't last longer than 3 years. We are waiting to get some troubleshooting tips from the company. I will update if they send back anything helpful. Overall, it's a nice machine when it's working. However, between the maintenance and the new noise it's making I am having some doubts. Oh and definitely opt for the additional water reservoir!