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These picks are the best way to spend your hard-earned cash. If you, like me, love an iced beverage and don't have a freezer that makes ice for you, you know the struggle of enjoying a nice, refreshing, cold drink in the comfort of your own home. To me, there's always been something that feels undignified, tedious, and not-as-good about freezing water in an ice cube tray or buying bags of ice—champagne problems, I know.
And room-temperature champagne at that. Since I discovered that countertop ice makers exist, I've searched far and wide for the right one. Something not too big and bulky, sure, but more importantly, one that produces the good ice.
Real ice lovers know what I mean. The small, crunchy, chomp-able ice. Nugget ice, if you will, that floats perfectly in your drink.
Then I met the machine that does it to perfection— . It makes me thirsty for an icy, refreshing glass of water just thinking about it. $449, JOE LINGEMAN It's the perfect size.
I live in a small New York City apartment, so countertop space is a privilege and a luxury. Most ice makers are oversized, hulking, behemoth machines, and those are simply out of the question for me and so many others. GE nailed the solution—a relatively compact ice machine designed to sit snugly on any countertop.
The Opal 1.0 measures 9.67 inches wide, 17.
1 inches tall, and 17.3 inches deep—trust me when I tell you that you have room for th.