Midea Bullet Ice Maker has the best record for speed: 18 of 23 shoppers who weighed in said the first ice came quickly and it kept up. Frigidaire Compact Ice Maker is close behind at 15 of 20, and Simzlife Nugget Ice Maker trails at 6 of 10. This page rests on just 3 ice makers, each with a small group of shoppers, so treat it as an early read.
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Share of shoppers who stated an outcome for speed. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Best record Midea Bullet Ice Maker 18 of 23 say it made ice fast and kept up See price & reviews on Amazon Noise splits the field: 31% of reviews for Midea Bullet Ice Maker call it quiet, while 29% of reviews for Simzlife Nugget Ice Maker call it loud.
Praise and complaints are the points shoppers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
Midea
Best for easy, quiet use
62% of reviews say it makes ice fast, and 38% say it's easy to use. 31% call it quiet. Complaints are few, split between ice melting in the bin (15%) and slow batches (15%).
Frigidaire
Speed is the praise here, with 48% of reviews saying it makes ice fast and 17% calling it good value. Complaints spread out: 17% say ice melts in the bin, 14% say it stopped working and 10% call it loud.
Simzlife
Best for nugget ice
24% of reviews praise the nugget ice, but it has the weakest record here at 6 of 10. 29% say it stopped working and 29% call it loud. On Simzlife's own site, 9 of 9 said it made ice fast, which we show but don't count.
The 3 products ranked here carry 315 reviews at Target. We read the newest reviews of each product (up to a thousand per listing), kept the ones that talk about speed, and counted up to 40 per product, posted between Apr 2024 and Sep 2026.
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Midea Bullet Ice Maker has the best record, with 18 of 23 shoppers saying it made ice fast and kept up. Frigidaire Compact Ice Maker is close at 15 of 20.
It varies by model, so check the maker's own figures on the box. We count whether shoppers said the first ice came quickly and the machine kept up with what they needed. 18 of 23 said so for Midea Bullet Ice Maker, and 15 of 20 for Frigidaire Compact Ice Maker.
Shoppers mention it for all three here, from 15% of reviews for Midea Bullet Ice Maker to 24% for Simzlife Nugget Ice Maker. Countertop ice makers usually don't keep the bin frozen, so move ice to your freezer if you want to keep a batch.
Shoppers are mixed. 6 of 10 said it made ice fast and 24% praise the nugget ice, but 29% say it stopped working. Just 10 shoppers weighed in, so the record is thin.
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