I recently purchased a manual Ritter Slicer, primarily for my sourdough bread. I also purchased a second blade for soft foods, which I have not used as yet. The Slicer is exceptional, it is everything I expected and more. It looks fantastic, which is great, because I want to leave it out so that I have quick access to it. It is quite an expensive piece of equipment, but worth every dollar. I would much prefer to buy quality and not waste money on replacing cheaper items. Loewen-META were brilliant. I live in Australia and the slicer arrived promptly and very well packaged. It’s always a bit scary buying on-line from anywhere really, but when it is from the other side of the world and you don’t really know the company, it is even more worrying. You need not worry at all with Loewen-META, they are exceptional, and I would highly recommend them.