The idea is good, the machine is very small, they can therefore leave permanently because it does not take much space and it is therefore often used. Here outweigh the disadvantages The filling opening is too small, a cucumber must be halved, so that it fits into the filler hole. When rasps much falls apart from the collection container. The machine itself is very loud and very difficult to clean because they indeed must not rinse. In the space or in the groove at the bottom always collect vegetable scraps, which must then be laboriously scraped with a narrow cutlery. After about 10 months, and little use the machine rasped no longer, the grating disc is no longer turning. We got a new sent, this time company Hoberg, the machine is absolutely identical to Beem. We have then the broken machine unscrewed to see what was the cause of the defect. Inside are installed cheap plastic gears, where some teeth had broken through normal use. Very annoying that gears should be stable because they are stressed at each use, are made of plastic. That speaks for itself, because no longer has to be said a lot. A bad cheap product that is not recommended. From company Beem or Hoberg we buy nothing.