EUHOMY Ice Maker Review: Is the Sonic-Ice Dream Worth $145?

Quick overview

Short version: yes — it makes the real thing. Soft, chewable sonic-style ice, first scoop about eight minutes after you plug it in, from a tank you fill yourself. No plumbing, no installation, light enough to ride along to a party or the RV. Plan for around $145. But before you click anything, know that this machine has a split personality: most owners adore theirs, and a smaller group would happily throw theirs off a bridge. The difference between those two groups comes down to one habit — and I'll show you exactly what it is.

The question you're actually asking

You're not really asking whether this machine makes ice. You're asking whether it'll be the appliance version of a gym membership: thrilling for two weeks, then a $145 monument to good intentions humming in the corner. Fair question — some owners would tell you that's exactly what happened to them. But when I read their angry reviews side by side, they were all telling the same story. And it's not the story you'd expect.

The one-star autopsy

I read my way through this machine's angriest reviews so you don't have to, and here's the plot twist: almost nobody describes a machine that never worked. They describe a machine that worked beautifully — and then slowly stopped. The ice gets smaller. The cycles get longer. A sour smell moves in. That's not bad luck; that's limescale. These machines drink water all day, and if you feed one hard tap water and never run the cleaning cycle, the minerals quietly choke it. The angriest owners are, almost word for word, the ones who never ran the cleaner. So the real question isn't "is this a good machine?" It's "which kind of owner will you be?"

The whole owner story in one picture — the happy majority, and the tail who skipped the cleaner:

The three-star truth

The middle-of-the-road owners — the honest ones — agree on the headline: the ice really is the good stuff. Soft, crunchy, the kind you order a second drink just to keep chewing. Their gripes are the liveable kind: the tank needs topping up more often than you'd like on a busy day, and since this is a countertop machine rather than a freezer, ice you don't scoop out melts back into the tank to be made fresh later. Nobody in the middle regrets the ice. They just wish the tank were bigger and the bin were colder.

How to use and clean the EUHOMY ice maker

1. Set up. Place the unit on a level counter with clearance for ventilation, fill the 1.2 quart (1.1 L) tank with water, and power it on. First nugget ice arrives in 6 to 8 minutes.
2. Run it through the day. The ICE FULL indicator stops ice-making automatically when the basket fills, so you can leave it running and scoop with the included scoop as needed. It produces up to 34 pounds (15.4 kg) across 24 hours.
3. Transfer ice you want to keep. The basket is not a freezer. Move ice you want to store into a freezer bag or bin; meltwater drains back to the tank and gets reused.
4. Run the auto-cleaning cycle. Use the built-in auto-cleaning function on a regular schedule, and empty plus dry the tank between uses. Regular cleaning is the single habit that separates the 5-star experience from the 1-star one on machines like this. Check the included manual for the exact clean-cycle steps and any cleaning-solution guidance for your unit.
5. Refresh the water. Swap in fresh water rather than topping up old water, especially after the unit has sat unused. The removable top cover makes tank access straightforward.

Where it shines, where it bites

What 16,939 owners are really saying

Picture everyone who owns this machine at one long dinner table. Most of them are evangelists — they'll make you chew a piece of their ice before you're allowed to leave. A few are happy but muttering about refilling the tank again. And down at the far end sits a small, furious group whose machines went sour — and almost every one of them, if you ask enough questions, skipped the cleaning cycle. The maintenance routine below is the entire difference between the two ends of that table.

EUHOMY ice maker: real buyer questions

Walk away if this is you

If what you actually want is a machine you plumb in, forget about, and never clean — walk away. That machine exists, it costs several times more, and this isn't it. Same if you expect the bin to keep ice frozen overnight; countertop units don't do that. But if you can spare two minutes a month for a cleaning cycle, you'll be on the happy side of this machine's story — and the routine below is exactly how.

So, is it worth it?

For most people, yes. Around $145 gets you the real sonic-style nugget ice, fast, from a machine you can put anywhere there's a plug. The owners who love it are the ones who give it two minutes of cleaning a month; the ones who hate it mostly did it to themselves. I'd buy it for the chewable ice alone. I'd only skip it if you want a plumbed-in, set-and-forget machine — that appliance exists, and it costs several times more.