I use this for making sauce from my garden tomatoes. It works just as described and stands up to multiple large batches. Cleans up easily enough. And the hopper is good sized for such a small press. A couple of tips: the instructions say that you don't need to blanch the tomatoes first, but I'd recommend you do. It feels like the unit struggles somewhat with just raw tomatoes. I cut large tomatoes in quarters and blanch for 1 minute and transfer right to the hopper to cool a few minutes before processing. You do not need to peel or seed them first because this does a good job. The plastic parts do feel a little thin/light so not sure if it will last 50 years like grandma's did, but this is the first season I used it and it made a LOT of sauce just fine. Will update the review in a year or two if it doesn't hold up. I recommend.Have canned tomatoes the traditional way- blanching and skinning- and using this Weston tool. This tool is at least 10x faster and 100x easier. I just wash and core then purée through this tool. I can do so much more in a day. I let my mother in law borrow it and she called me to say she was shocked at how much easier and faster it is- and she’s been canning for decades!! Have only used it for tomatoes, it is dishwasher cleanable but I use a toothbrush to go over the screen. There are a couple small parts you need to be careful not to lose. It is easy to assemble- once you do it the first time.I had prepared about 1/3 of our tomatoes before I bought this on my daughter’s suggestion. This is 10x faster and so easy. I got the maximum amount of sauce. It removes skin & seeds at the same time. I recommend it.Sorry if this gets long, but I'm going to do a thorough review, address problems others have written of, and provide a few helpful hints, if I can.I'm 67, have been canning for almost 50 years. Being old-school, I've always blanched my tomatoes, peeled, cored, seeded with a sieve/pestle, spending hours at these chores and making a total mess of my kitchen. This appliance takes care of all that in one easy step.Assembly: Read the directions more than once and look at the diagrams. It's easy if you follow the directions and use a little intuition and common sense. Be sure you've attached the Screen correctly, and don't forget to tighten the Screen Thumbscrew. There's no hole to put it into; it's a pressure fit. Several people have complained about leakage. I didn't have any even the first time I used it. They may have forgotten to tighten the Screw or insert the Screen Gasket. That's important.Stabilize the appliance: You have options of Suction or C-clamp. I began with the Suction, and if you use that, remember to dampen the suction with a little water. It'll adhere better to your surface. I did have a little problem with the suction, but it's easy to reapply, even in mid-use. I was doing this on my kitchen table, so engaged the Suction and added the C-clamp, which won't mar your table top because it never touches it. The two together kept the appliance rock solid.Use: Fill the Hopper with your quartered tomatoes. It holds a lot, and use the Stomper to direction them down to the Spiral auger. Some reviews found the stomper flimsy. I think it's just right. Yes, it's plastic, but it lets you feel what you're doing. One review says the spiral auger (which is plastic) edges were becoming rough, and the reviewer was afraid of bits of plastic breaking off and going into the pot.Hint: You can feel it if the stomper comes in contact with the auger, which may have been the problem. Lift the stomper out and send more tomato down the hopper.Hint: The spiral auger forces the tomatoes against the screen, and as the screen holes are small to contain the seeds to be pushed into the waste bowl, the screen can become slightly clogged with tomato meat. This is a good thing! It means all that goodness is going where it should. If you feel the appliance is bogging down, reach your hand in and scrape the mash on the outside of the screen off and onto the Chute. You can't hurt yourself. The screen doesn't move.Everyone advises putting the skins/seeds in the waste bowl through the appliance again. I did so, but only one time through. What came out as waste the second time was almost dry.Cleanup: Not a problem. At least I didn't think so, as it didn't include wiping down walls!Hint: When you're through, keep turning the crank for a minute. There's still waste in the spiral auger, and you want to get as much as possible out before you disassemble the appliance. There'll still be stuff you have to clean out, but that's inevitable with any appliance. Rinse the pieces off and wash in soapy water.Observation: Some reviewers don't feel this would be dishwasher safe. I didn't try it, as my dishwasher was busy sterilizing jars. Personally, I feel it would be safe for the dishwasher. The metal frame only needs wiping off, but I wouldn't hesitate to put the plastic pieces on the top shelf of my dishwasher. If you're in doubt, take them out at the end of the wash cycle, before the dry cycle begins, but I don't think even that's necessary.A great many reviews consider the Waste Funnel to be flimsy. It is the most fragile of all the pieces, but I don't see that as a problem. Be gentle with it. It does go on and come off with a bit of difficulty. Don't drop it. If it does crack, or even break, I'm sure it's a low-cost replacement, or use some clear packing tape or even duct tape to fix it. After all, it doesn't have anything to do with the actual use of the appliance, which, I'm certain, could be used without it.Overall, I'm in love with this product! It does everything it's said to do, and is sturdy enough I'm fairly sure it'll last longer than I will.Last thought: I was a bit hesitant to buy this because of the price. I mean, for that price, how good could it be? Don't be discouraged by the low price. This is a quality appliance!We Love this product! We have used it for multiple fruits and vegetables.It did what it said. The screen does not let even the tiniest seeds through. Me and my husband used it for 30 lbs of tomatoes. It clogged up once, which was pretty easy to clear out, put it back together and get going again. Make sure you get everything put together properly. Easy to clean, soaked in hot water, washed, dried and put up. It does get messy but I expected that. It stays stuck to countertop but once tomato juice or base gets wet it slips, use the vice/clamp it comes with to clamp to counter.Great timesaver, no longer have to peel tomatoes! Made blackberry syrup and strained amazingly fast and easy.These tools are great- easy to use and so easy to clean! So happy with this purchase!Plus points makes great Pasata; negative points fiddly to assemble/clean suction thing doesn't work on our wooden worktops but may on others clamp ok wonder how long some components might last(plastic waste funnel thing)... could be re engineered really well overall good for price compared with plasticky ones.....good bit of kitchen kit, It does all the work when making Red Pepper and Tomato soup.The only minor downside is the amount you have to scrape out at the end as it leaves a fair bit trapped.Apart from that it really is greatA bit fiddly to put together and dismantle, but it uses most of the tomatoes if you put them through several times. Despite being fiddly it's a much better option than skinning in boiling water, etc.I was pleasantly surprised to find a screen gasket was included with each of the three screens.I ordered both the Weston Roma Food Strainer, and the 4-Piece Accessory Kit on the 27th of April as I found tomatoes on sale at almost 90% off. The order was split since the items were in different warehouses. Each had problems. The Food Strainer arrived missing the screen. This was quickly replaced. The accessory kit did not arrive and Amazon cancelled my order. Luckily, I was able to re-order at the same price. This arrived on time. I say luckily, as the food strainer increased in price by almost 20% after I ordered it.I tried two methods of preparing the tomatoes for pressure canning. Quartering the tomatoes and running them through the strainer raw was difficult, and produced a separated water / pulp result. I ran everything through four times before the results were non longer worth while.Covering the bottom of a pan with quartered tomatoes, bringing it to a boil while crushing with a potato masher, then adding tomato quarters, maintaining the boil and continuing to crush, produced a non-separated product. It was much easier running the boiled result through the strainer. Twice through the strainer yielded more than four times through with raw tomatoes. I'm much happier with the results provided using this method.I'm looking forward to making salsa with the accessory screen once the tomatoes ripen in my garden.We use this to grind our roma tomatoes for sauce, and have done so quite a few times now. It does the job, BUT it does have a couple of issues: we found that after grinding a couple of hopper loads, the sucker cup "un-sucked", and we had to set it up again. It didn't always suck on the first try despite following the instructions for prepping the countertop. Very frustrating. We also worry about the handle you push down to activate the suck - it's plastic, and it takes a lot of effort to push it down, so we're hoping it doesn't snap at some point. Also, we had to run the "leftover" crushed tomatoes through a second time to get more "sauce". There are a lot of pieces to the device and a lot to put together. Sounds like a negative review, but it's very heavy (good), stainless steel (great), and as I said, it DOES get the job done, but it just takes a little work.