GE’s nugget ice maker is nearly half off if you buy it refurbished

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GE’s nugget crystal shaper is elemental to acceptable up. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge

If you’re looking for ways to marque staying chill and hydrated easier this summer, Woot is presently selling a refurbished GE Profile Opal 2.0 Ultra Nugget Ice Maker for $264.99 done June 3rd. That’s $184 little than buying caller astatine its afloat price, and comes with a 90-day warranty. If you privation a marque caller model, it’s besides connected merchantability for $359 ($90) astatine Best Buy, oregon $449 ($50 off) with a broadside vessel included (Amazon, Best Buy, GE).

GE Profile Opal 2.0 Ultra

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If you’re unfamiliar with nugget ice, it’s the soft, chewable crystal that cools drinks rapidly and doesn’t melt arsenic accelerated arsenic crushed ice. In the week she spent investigating it, my workfellow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy said the countertop appliance rapidly became her family’s “favorite room gadget,” making drinks sensation amended and adjacent encouraging her kids to enactment hydrated. It’s elemental to usage and makes crystal quickly, churning retired up to 38 pounds of chewable nugget crystal per day. Setup is comparatively simple, too, arsenic it doesn’t necessitate plumbing. The instrumentality besides supports Wi-Fi, allowing you to docket crystal accumulation oregon power it with Amazon Alexa oregon Google Assistant.

While the crystal shaper does necessitate a batch of maintenance, GE besides added immoderate upgrades aimed astatine making it somewhat easier, including a scale-inhibiting h2o filter, a reusable aerial filter, and built-in alerts that fto you cognize erstwhile it’s clip to sanitize oregon descale. There’s besides a interaction show for checking presumption and connecting to Wi-Fi, on with a stainless alloy scoop and a magnetic scoop holder.