This mincer is wonderful - highly recommended -. It is simple and safe on the countertop and works fine - as desired in thought. There really is nothing like an electric meat grinder. Manually operated grinders I had enough of my life. - Here is the snail is sharp, do not squeeze the meat juices out and leaves the rest back into the auger. You do not need a table substructure, where the meat grinder - of course at some point fit - are been mounted mühsehlig muss.Dazu I have to say: In the first assembly I had big trouble because I am not the "great engineers and readers of manuals". It is a lever, which you have to press "up", then snaps the so-called. Grinding function. Only insofar as the general function and handling for people who in technical things are like me just as clueless. My son has clarified that. Description this is ok, you have to you can only "read". IE