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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    @JustineCaseyFeldown Well since he specifically asked how this ice held up I was commenting on that. Nugget or flaker machines are wet ice by design.  Don't play semantics. 
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,880
    NPHuskerFL said:
      Don't play semantics. 
    That's a mighty long word there brother Husker ;)

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  • NPHuskerFL
    NPHuskerFL Posts: 17,629
    @SGH Hopefully I used it in the correct context or somebody will by to correct me on that. :perturbed:
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,880
    @SGH Hopefully I used it in the correct context or somebody will by to correct me on that. :perturbed:
    Being a former English professor I can say with confidence that you used it perfect my friend. 

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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    SGH said:
    @SGH Hopefully I used it in the correct context or somebody will by to correct me on that. :perturbed:
    Being a former English professor I can say with confidence that you used it perfect my friend. 
    That sure was a lot of lengthy words my friend.  I believe you are right.
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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 17,981
    Wouldn't it be perfectly? 
  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,880
    edited November 2016
    Wouldn't it be perfectly? 
    Hell I don't know. I'm about as much of an English professor as I am a liberal =) I just like stirring $hit up :D

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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    SGH said:
    Wouldn't it be perfectly? 
    Hell I don't know. I'm about as much of an English professor as I am a liberal =) I just like stirring $hit up :D
    You sir Make America Great every day, perfectlie!
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  • SkinnyV
    SkinnyV Posts: 3,404
    edited November 2016
    SkinnyV said:
    I like it, how does this stuff hold up if you filled a freezer with some for later use? 
    Are you asking if ice goes bad, or if it will still be ice?

    :|

    because i think the only issue is if you lose power and the ice magically becomes water
    All about the texture...hence why some would pay $500 for the ice machine. I was asking if it holds to form if stored in the freezer and when you pull it out if it can easily be broken up and return to original form.
    i think Husker may be right and it probably becomes hard masses which would defeat the purpose. But it does not hurt to ask.

    i can tolerate my fridge ice in its crushed form...but I do like ice and use "lots" of it daily. Heck I round up my kids leftover ice sometime and finish it for them after dinner. Weird... but lightly flavore ice ( we drink 70% soda water mixed with 30% any soda around here) is a treat!

    theres my cutting soda trick for addicts 70-80% Soda water crossed with non diet soda. Try it, it's plenty sweet enough.
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  • HofstraJet
    HofstraJet Posts: 1,162
    edited November 2016
    KM-61BAH

    I love the portability of the Opal, but that would never keep up with my ice usage.

    Was so happy to get this to replace the Manitowoc I had. We use a lot of ice, especially when packing coolers. So easy to stick under the counter near the sink. Tapped water and used drain from sink, so plumbing was minimal. Just plugged it in and away we go.
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    Kinda disappointed...came back to this thread later tonight hoping to read some expansive essays on the nature and being of ice.


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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 18,884
    So... It takes an ice machine to bring you back to the fold...

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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    caliking said:
    So... It takes an ice machine to bring you back to the fold...
    Yep. The thing that brings Carl back is a post about poop ice(I do miss the unit we had on the unit in Trauma, drink the water and chew the ice; meal all in one)
  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    It does block up but separates just as easily as any bag of ice when dropped on the ground a time or two.

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  • Foghorn
    Foghorn Posts: 10,051
    caliking said:
    So... It takes an ice machine to bring you back to the fold...
    Yep. The thing that brings Carl back is a post about poop ice(I do miss the unit we had on the unit in Trauma, drink the water and chew the ice; meal all in one)
    That ice is best consumed from a handheld urinal jug. 

    XXL BGE, Karebecue, Klose BYC, Chargiller Akorn Kamado, Weber Smokey Mountain, Grand Turbo gasser, Weber Smoky Joe, and the wheelbarrow that my grandfather used to cook steaks from his cattle

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  • Foghorn said:
    caliking said:
    So... It takes an ice machine to bring you back to the fold...
    Yep. The thing that brings Carl back is a post about poop ice(I do miss the unit we had on the unit in Trauma, drink the water and chew the ice; meal all in one)
    That ice is best consumed from a handheld urinal jug. 
    Damn, thought I was the only one!

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