I bought this to make hiking snack sticks. It is terrible. Takes forever to stuff sausage of any length and the stuffer does not fit the vertical column to feed the meat into the spiral. This means that the meat goes AROUND the stuffer and shoots back up, so you are literally accomplishing 15% of the sausage you should be. No way recommend, I'll be looking for a new sausage stuffer or will just have it done professionally.