I will stop there. The machine is stable and you can etc.gut cut bread when the following problem would not be with me. After a short time there was occasionally noise while cutting bread. Since they were not so serious, I then made me not worry about it. Meanwhile, for something over a year, it is no longer possible to cut a slice of bread with no problems, right now it's all I have to interrupt very briefly when cutting a slice of bread 8 to 10, so it goes on. When plastic sprocket from the knife several teeth are broken off and only the bread cutting. In my opinion, so what should not happen in a brand unit. Perhaps exchanges Krups the knife as a goodwill gesture, but probably not with my luck. Will ask again. Without this deficiency, I would give the device probably 5 star, but so ...............