I purchased this Gideon Hand Crank Manual Meat Grinder with Powerful Suction Base / Heavy Duty with Stainless Steel Blades / Quickly and Effortlessly Grind Meat, Vegetables, Garlic, and fruits for my wife. She do a whole lot of grinding meat and vegetables and the one that we had surrendered already, thus I am getting her a new one. Based from the reviews here, I then decided to give this a try. Upon getting this on hand, my wife was well pleased with how it looked like. First, the size is perfect for the small counter that we have in the kitchen. At least, this thing will not be taking up much space. Next, this is so easy to assembled and easy to be cleaned up as well. There are two kinds of blade that are with it for a bigger or smaller size for grinding. Replacing the blade is as easy as pie as well. After having been cleaned, comes the testing part. As my wife worked on it, she was like, wow! This thing really worked! It was liked so easy when you are looking at it. I could tell that she was having fun as she was doing the whole process. She tried this with spices as well, like onion and it worked great. She was truly happy getting it and we consider this as a very worthy purchase.

Product gives nice strong pulses, but I noticed that after only a couple uses, the protective covering on one of the contact points is wearing off and I am now getting zapped just trying to take this thing off!

I received the 2013 version of this as a gift and enjoyed it. A chunk of the enjoyment was on the back side of each daily cartoon. The 2014 version has a blank back side. Next year, I will be trying a different calendar.

I bought this in size XS to replace a worn out Eddie Bauer messenger-type purse (lasted about 6 years). This is heavier than the Eddie Bauer due to the heavier fabric and the waterproofing. Overall volume is about the same, but distributed differently.