I bought this for my wife a few years ago and it didn't hardly get used.  We now make our dog homemade food do to a medical issue and we decided  to use this for slicing the carrots worked  great for about 20 minutes then the blade jammed into the top after I finally got the top off it took me another 10 minutes to remove the blade from the shaft.  The blade rivet had let go. Ok bad qc  so I tried the other blade but not be for i sand and cleaned the cover smooth   this blade lasted about 10 minutes. We have the stand blender mini chopper which we replaced blender stove fridge all great products. I hope this is just a bad design. Now we have to decide buy another kitchen aid food processor or one from another company