I love the idea of this device, but it's got a steep learning curve especially if you are new to making the batter for medu vadas. the device itself is simple and user friendly, but the batter has to be not too thin, not too thick, not too sticky, and not too firm in order to seep through the opening and create a perfect shape. For one batch of dough, I was able to get about 40% of the vadas perfectly shaped, and the rest turned out like crescent moon shapes or other blobs of some sort. It's easy to clean after a little bit of soaking in warm water, and it's dishwasher safe. Overall, not worth the money especially if you don't make vadas that often.The hopper is small but it still made a ton of doughnuts! I am still trying to work out the kinks but I pulled the plunger just above the oil and they were perfectly round. when the plunger closes it makes some jagged parts on the top of the doughnut. They get nice and crispy though!Cleaning is dangerous I got a deep finger cutIt's smaller than I expected, but this turned out to be a good thing. First, it's easy to handle with one hand that way, and the doughnuts I was making puff up to normal sized after frying anyway. I think if it were as big as I expected I would have giant monster doughnuts. That doesn't sound like a terrible thing to start with, but my waistline would likely argue with you about that.This contraption is well made. I bought it for making medu vada only. But the bottom hole is too big and the medu vada bqatter of the correct consistence does not fall down by its own accord. In order to make it fall, you have to make the batter quite thin by adding more water, in which case the medu vada will absorb lot of oil.. This design can be improved by incorporating a plunger.Item is not easy to fill the batter, and washing also very difficult. I don’t like the item. Also, shape of the Vada donut not looking good.The construction is better than the first one that I purchased, but I do wish that it had come with recipes, because the recipe I used was too thick and it made it difficult to make donutsGoodDoesn’t do donuts. Poorly designed. I have a donut maker very similar to this one and I wanted to give one away as a X-Mas gift. Good thing I tried it before. The metal disk at the bottom of the container where the dough drops into the grease is bigger than the opening thereby not cutting the dough sharp as it should to create the donut shape until it hits the grease. Instead the dough looks more like a pancake with somewhat of a hole in the middle.I bought this thing for a special event I booked where I agreed to make 600 donuts on site. I pounded over 40L of donut batter through this thing in a matter of hours and it did not let me down. I will say it is smaller than you'd think and is a bit had to fill, but other than it is very well built. Solid stainless, the spring has enough tension to hold the batter without leaking, while still enough give to not kill my hand after hours and hours of using. I put this little donut hopper through the ringer and it came out the other side unscathed. Would buy again.Product did not make donut shapes. Just plopped ball of batter into oil. Leaks batter out bottom. When it arrived it looked like it had been used before. It looked like there was old batter in the stopper.I think this is a good idea but it simply didn’t work for us. The batter seemed too thick to come out of the end. Sorry to say … a waste of money.I use to make donuts. I had a plastic one for 25 years. This one is way better quality and easier to fill, wider at the top than my old one. Recommend