All in all, I'm pretty happy with this slicer. For the money, it does a nice job. It really isn't too hard to take apart and clean. The few things I do not like is the slide tray doesn't have quite enough travel past the leading edge of the cutting blade, leaving a portion of uncut meat if your meat item isn't partially frozen. There is too much of a gap between the slide tray shelf and the blade itself. This gap allows unfrozen meats to droop into that gap and messes up consistency. Also, the blade was not sharp when the slicer arrived. This is dangerous and unacceptable. I had to sharpen the blade for it to cut well.