A month ago I bought this food slicer, especially for bread to cut it. It was not easy to find a left hook. The machine cuts very well, the engine operates quietly. The extra knife is a good bonus, which seems appropriate for the price. For security purposes, I would like to always use the slide, but that's when bread is not possible to use only the small remainder care of. My elderly parents could share a carriage badly install and remove again. Too bad, it would be technically determined no great effort to equip the device with a larger slide. Therefore, this device gets one star less.