Works great. Things you should know…. First it is larger than I imagined. I was thinking in terms of the size of a Mr. coffee type coffee maker, but this is about 1/3 larger. It’s not easy to have out or put away. Secondly, it works on the premise of a heating element and a cooling fan. The fan makes noise. Not awful, but also not quiet. Next, I took advice from previous reviews to buy a distiller with a glass carafe. People complained that the plastic carafes passed along a detectable “plastic” taste. This glass carafe is of an old fashion type of basic glass. Not thin like Pyrexx or a coffee pot glass, and not tempered therefore breakable. By the time you get a gallon of water into this heavy, thick glass, it might be too weighty for some folks to lift and reasonably pour into another container. For that reason, you might want to consider plastic. Also, this glass carafe requires you to assemble the handle. You will need smaller pliers and a Phillips screwdriver. The assembly instructions are not clear, and counterintuitively you have to reverse bend the stainless bands back around the carafe to assemble the handle. Yikes! That took me a day to figure out. The carafe doesn’t nest right next to the unit. You have to linen it up carefully with the drip spout to make it all function. As far as cleaning, it does come with a container of cleaning agent I believe to be granular citric acid for the interior of the main stainless unit. I have read reviews were folks are very dedicated to clean the unit every single time. I didn’t want to be dependent on continually buying cleaning agent. I tried using some lemon juice and it did the trick. I will continue to use lemon or vinegar to clean every second or third use not letting the white mineral buildup get too concentrated. Lastly, it does shut off automatically. That wasn’t clear to me either in the listing or in the instructions. All that being said, the unit works very well. I bought a budget friendly model and it does e