I’ve had mine a little over a year now. No issues for mine.

Tried skittles, they didn’t turn out well.

I started with chicken breast and pork chops. Trimmed the fat off. Cooked on the grill and freeze dried. Worked great.

When I did eggs, I changed a preset for the freeze to -20 degrees. (Default is -10 degrees) This makes the machine get down to -20 before the vacuum pump starts. At -10 there is a risk that the eggs aren’t frozen and “explode” all over the inside of the machine.

Only issue I’ve ever had is operator error and I opened the drain with a vacuum in the machine and water in the drain bucket! Oops!