We have this cotton candy machine for about half a year and get really like, despite the disadvantage that as in a previous review already described jump off the upper plastic ring regularly. This we have now solved with a few blobs of silicone. In addition, making our a quite a noise here and there and "wanders" partially across the table due to the vibration. With normal sugar sizable cotton candies come out with, but we have bought, and it definitely works well! We tried various sweets, but somehow come because only quite mini cotton candy at out in strange sticky consistency. All in all we are apart from the various small problems but satisfied and happy about every single cotton candies :-)