I am pretty lazy and don't have the best knife skills so this machine is a real time-save for me when I have a lot of veggies to get through. I do like it if I plan to grate a lot cheese at once too. But I don't pull this bad boy out when I only have a little chopping or grating because I don't run my dishwasher every day, so then I end up needing to hand wash it and the end of the meal prep.