Review on 🔪 Commercial Meat Cutter Machine - Electric Shredder, 850W Power, 330LBS/H Output, Stainless Steel, for Pork, Beef, Chicken Breast - 5mm Meat Cutting Slicer by Connie Love

Conclusion: The operation is great after you clean it. The cut is crisp and fast! But this device requires work before first use. If you're not a fan of needlework, look elsewhere. The quality control, fit and finish of this cutter does not match the high cost of the device. You must disassemble this item to clean before first use! Let me preface this review. I bought it for my wife to help her in the kitchen. I'm an electrician and good with tools so disassembling the unit was within my ability. When you receive the cutter, you will find that it is well packaged. I haven't had any setbacks or dents. The weight of the cutter depends on the built-in motor. But when you open the package, there is a very strong smell of kerosene, and it lingers. There are a couple of pouches in the box with the cutting block. The first bag has a spiral hose with a cleaning nozzle. When you open the packaging, you can smell the strong smell of kerosene again. The nozzle is shown in the photo on the product page. They are connected with compression fittings which can burst if the water pressure is high enough because I tried and there was hot water everywhere. It connects to a standard faucet like this https://www.amazon.com/Peerless-Single-Handle-Kitchen-Faucet-P110LF/dp/B0054Y3LDU, but if like me you have a faucet with https://www. amazon.com/Moen-One-Handle-Pulldown-Kitchen-Faucet/dp/B007Y6LL1K?th=1, the cleaning hose does not fit therefore the cleaning nozzle will not work unless you remove the spray head and connect it to the retractable end of the tap hose (NOT RECOMMENDED). I tried and the faucet hose slipped out of my hand and caught in the faucet neck. It was the bear pulling him back. I soak the included hose and nozzle in hot soapy water (Dawn) to get rid of the gas smell but it didn't work. There was also a slight smell. In the end, the supplied cleaning hose/nozzle ended up in the trash can. My faucet can reach the cutter if I pull it close enough and use a pipe cleaner to get between the 7mm blades. The second package contains a cleaning cloth and a soft cleaning brush. These items also smell of oil. The brush bristles are too soft to clean everything inside/between the blades. As I mentioned earlier, a pipe cleaner works best. Items from the second bag also ended up in the trash because they were unusable. Now for the cutter itself. I didn't find any dings or dings due to the hard packaging, but it also smelled like it had been dipped in oil. The included instructions (image side) 'show' how to disassemble it for cleaning and cleaning when needed. The entire unit is covered with a blue protective film that must be removed. When I removed all the blue plastic I found glue cured on the stainless steel parts underneath the blue plastic. I had to use acetone to remove that stickiness. Then I removed the top cover, which is held in place with two thumbscrews for the top cover first flush. With the cover removed you can see the inside of the knife from above. What I saw was very poor quality control. There is a motor turning a nylon gear. The engine was free. The engine body nuts have NOT been tightened. The engine just hung out there. Then I took this thing apart to tighten the mounting nuts. Four screws in the front, four in the back, and four feet hold the outer shell in place. Once these brackets/feet are removed, you can carefully unplug the electrical cords from the switch on the back of the unit. I found that one of the wires was not crimped properly and the connector fell off. I ended up soldering the connector back on. You will also need to cut the zip ties securing the starting capacitor to one of the horizontal brackets. They didn't design this with a proper capacitor mount, so it's slipped over the motor on a mount. Pay attention to the wiring as you can spin the motor incorrectly if you don't connect it correctly when reassembling. With all of the edges of the sheet metal exposed I used a file to remove the sharp edges on the outer shell, top cap, funnel outlet and anywhere there was an edge which is basically the entire block. They didn't do it for you, so you won't be circumcised. So I did this so my wife wouldn't cut herself while operating this cutter. Instead of tightening the nuts for the motor I now chose to remove the motor, bearings, gears and horizontal supports. I wanted to clean this up. You need special tools for this. I didn't want to ship food without thorough cleaning. I put everything back together and there is still a slight smell of gasoline coming from the engine which you don't want to wash. If you can do it all, this cutter will do well for what it was designed for. But I don't think most of them would be comfortable taking it apart for the necessary initial cleaning, let alone have the troubleshooting tools. This cutter is NOT plug and play. All in all I spent over 2 hours cleaning/repairing before using it. I did this because I had the opportunity/possibility and needed a slicer. If this company had better quality control, fit and finish, and cleaned this product before packing and shipping, this could be a 5 star cutter. But because of the above cleanup/fixing, this is two stars at best.