Post #326449 by hookilau on Sat, Aug 18, 2007 4:17 PM

funny you should ask. I read the reviews after I had tried it for myself and was quite puzzled by the reviewer who deemed it 'noisy'.

well of COURSE it's noisy-----it's crushing ice! :o

really though, it's only noisy when it's doing the actual crushing
which I totally expected...but I suppose the reviewer hadn't counted on.

You drop ice in the little trap door on top and then turn it on,
the little blue light goes on and it crushes the ice
(noisily but not with more noise than can be expected when ice
comes in contact with the blade I imagine is in there) then when
there's no more ice in the chamber (as it's being crushed,
it's being delivered into a small clear receptacle) the machine
itself gives off a low barely discernable hummmm.

and as soon as you drop in more ice, it gets noisy again but only
as it's crushing the ice.

as for the size of the ice, it's probably 1/4" sized bits. I have
to say though, when added to my cocktail glass I had frost on the outside
of the glass within minutes and it kept my cocktail frosty and truly
delicious. I had a Painkiller ala Grog Log and built the cocktail
in the glass so the ingredients were warm as in not chilled during the
shaking process. (woops---forgot I had that mai tai first, prolly should've
stopped at one cocktail)

in my opinion, it was well worth the 35$ I spent for it as I did'nt really
think it would make that big of a difference in the enjoyability of the drink.
but it kept my drink frosty and less watered down.

oh yeah and as for the even-ness, since this is my first experience
with an ice crusher, all the ice came out to be 1/4" bits at the largest,
accompanied by a negligable amount of 'snow'.

The picture on the box (which is the same picture in the link given above) was a very accurate rendering of the finished ice
in size and texture. :)

[ Edited by: hookilau 2007-08-18 16:27 ]