I bought this a while ago and have used it for about 12-15 pounds of venison sausage so far in small batches. For the money, it seems to be a fine performer. The 3 supplied cutting plates allow the choice of fine, medium, and coarse grinding. I prefer to grind meats coarsely, then add spices, wine and other additions, mix, and re-grind at medium or fine. This seems to result in an excellent sausage with additives well-dispersed throughout. You will find better results from chilling both the meat and the detachable grinder parts before grinding (I've been doing about 30 minutes in the freezer beforehand.)The grinder is noisy while in operation but I expected that. It doesn't move while grinding, and so far hasn't choked on anything, even when I neglected some bits of silverskin in cleaning up the venison beforehand. (The bits of silverskin ended up clustered on the inside of the grinding plate where it was easy to collect and discard.) I have not tried to feed it meat with sizable tendons or sinew and would not be surprised if you had to stop and clean mid-stream if you did that.The sausage-stuffing bits seem to work just fine, I got as much as 8' of casing on it at one go without too much trouble, and it fed just fine with the occasional air coming through if I wasn't consistent enough in feeding the meat in. (I had done some sausage-making before this, but was hardly expert.)All the parts that come in contact with the meat clean up fairly easily, although I do have to work a little harder in getting all the stuff out of the main grinder body. I always clean by hand so I have no knowledge of how it does in the dishwasher. The grinding plates themselves are the only thing that looked to me like they might rust, so I dry them off well, oil them slightly, and keep them separate in a ziplock baggie, and haven't had any trouble with them with that treatment.All together I am impressed by this machine for this very affordable amount of money. If I was grinding up 100 lbs in a week, repeatedly, I might go for a more expensive and powerful version, but I might not. For those of us with lighter duty cycles than that, this is recommended.