I've let this stand mixer after much looking and Find give birthday. In the beginning it was used almost daily, as the halt so is every week with new things, now (6 months later) not so often, but 2-3 times. As I said, the unit is now almost six months old and has not completely met my expectations. All I have to date thrown into it, was completely crushed or pureed, nothing is somewhere spilled over or came out, so everything tight and the knife, and any other small items are still just as good shape as in the beginning, although I mainly Smoothies so with lots of ice, do. With frozen fruit pur he has a little trouble, but since then is very muddy and sticky, but with a little water or milk can easily be remedied. Overall, I gained on this unit a lot of joy and it does exactly what I want, to an excellent price, I think. In the end, it should be mentioned that the glass container is of course another ultimate selling point.