I bought this after reading the positive reviews on here. Have now had it for about 2 weeks and I cannot recommend this product highly enough. It minces everything I've thrown into it: beef, chicken, lamb and even makes short work of any sinuey off-cuts. As others have said it is quite noisy, but that's probably because it has a powerful 1800W motor and it's not as though it's a machine you leave running for hours. Making sausages is also a piece of cake, just attach the sausage nozzle and away you go.