When we moved a few states over for my husband to consult on a new bar opening, the Opal came with us. While I spent only a few weeks with the newest Opal, I’ve been using a prior model since 2017, and it’s worked flawlessly for over six years. And the GE Profile Opal 2.0 starts making “the good ice” in less than 10 minutes. If your freezer doesn’t have an ice machine and you tend to go through a lot of the stuff, there’s great appeal to a dedicated ice maker. Without the side tank, the machine costs a bit less and takes up 3 fewer inches of counter space-but makes only one-third as much ice before you need to refill. If you’re having an event where you serve a lot of drinks upfront, then gradually re-up throughout the evening, the Opal can keep pace so you won’t have to run to the corner store for a bag of ice. The Opal makes enough crunchy, delectable nugget ice to chill 12 small drinks at a time. And it replenishes at the rate of a pound per hour. It holds nearly 3 pounds of ice (roughly 10 cups) when full, enough for about 12 small drinks. My pick for the best countertop ice machine, the GE Profile Opal 2.0 with a 1-gallon side tank, cranks out enough to keep an event going. The bin holds about 3 pounds of ice, more than any other machine I tested the appeal of little ice nuggets always at the ready is considerable. The Opal reliably drops a pound of uniform ice nuggets per hour, and with its sleek look and attractively backlit pullout drawer, it feels like a restaurant-caliber machine.
Given its size and shape, it’s also ideal for filling a cooler or wine bucket to ice down drinks in. Whether straight from the bin or scooped into a drink, each nugget is perfectly munchable. What does this mean, in a practical sense? With its additional surface area, nugget ice chills down drinks faster than standard ice cubes or “bullet” shapes. The sleek Opal produced about a pound of ice per hour in my tests.
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