I lost pieces to my Cuisinart and this is equal to the model I had.

I often have a little trouble getting the pieces to lock in together at first

The plastic piece you used to push the food down to be sliced was nice to have, but it did not cut things evenly and did not cut them well

This is a horrible piece of machinery.

Like when I would freeze pieces of fruit (bananas, strawberries) and it would process like 75% of the pieces

Hamilton Beach refused to honor the warranty (since we had to open it to determine what was wrong) so it is basically an expensive piece of landfill that we never even got to use once

And the one piece chute and lid are very easy to clean.