I have been given this candy machine and am thrilled! At first I thought it was not very easy to assemble the parts, because if you put the white plastic bowl on the bottom thing, you really have quite a force apply. The instructions I found partly in this regard is not quite as useful because the individual parts are marked with strange names. The picture front it has finally helped me. Then I tried to make the first cotton candy. That was wrong, everything was full of caramel and my cane hung just a sad white lumps. I then started a second attempt, and since it was already viiel better and I found out a real nice cotton candy. She was delicious !! It takes a few applications until you get the hang of it, but then it works really great, and the manual how exactly you have to turn and hold the stick, also helps. I am surprised that you can so get a good result with such a small device. The cotton candy tastes like on the train station, only she is naturally smaller, but what I personally find the right place. However, I would recommend (if any) to take thicker than the wooden sticks that are included in the package. Where the cotton candy just does not have as good liability, which made it hard to rotate them. A great side effect is still that settles at the cotton candy places in the bowl caramel. The so has an interesting shape and structure that I'll use it to decorate cupcakes. Overall, an absolutely recommendable product that I'll have a lot of fun certainly!