The first time I used it, to chop apples, it worked but pulverized them. It was hard to get uniform size pieces- pulverized some but left some chunks. Immediately after I tried to chop cranberries- machine didn't work loud noise-couldn't get the blades  to rotate. Despite many attempts to take bowl/blade/lid (cutting self in process-blade very sharp) apart and reassemble, chopper won't work/no blade rotation. Don't buy one !