As with pretty much every machine this lower price range, the first pieces of ice are less durable, but over time they are much better. You can speed up the whole thing by previously about 1 liter of water in the normal refrigerator precools - more is not possible anyway at a time into the container. The ice bin (large sieve) can be removed, a shovel there also. Read As elsewhere on a different machine, I recommend also to produce for parties ice in advance and nachzufrosten in the freezer - then keep the pieces much longer.
What I like about the machine with the best, is the water drain. The fact is easily accessible at the rear right, and it is sufficient to provide the machine slightly tilted to the drain of the sink, then barely a droplet remains in it. What bothers on the opposite side something is in the long run, the operating noise - in contrast to the statement on the package box is quiet for me but then something fundamentally different.
Bottom line, I'm completely satisfied - I bought the machine in the local shopping center for 99.-, and for the price it is hard to beat.
