True to form, The RIVAL Co., has totally destroyed another great American product.  White Mountain freezers were the best made freezer in the country.  Now, they have been cheapened to being outsourced in China.  Believe me, you do not get what you pay for.  What I would give for The Rival Co. to go back to the original design they obtained, when they bought White Mountain, and return the product to the quality it once was.  It is no longer worth owning, at even half the price.  The electric motor is now made in China, and the first one I received of the 'new' inferior quality had to be returned because the gear mechanism was torn up when I plugged it in for the very first time.  Upon receiving a second one, the quality is totally inferior to the old product standard.  The metal can can be bent with a finger, and the aluminum canister top is so thin, it would break if dropped from a countertop distance.  The only thing that hasn't been degraded yet is the dasher.  I believe it is because they haven't found a satisfactory way to make a dasher out of plastic.  The cast metal one is indestructible, but the dasher alone doesn't make for a quality product.  Besides, in another year or two, the dasher will be changed, or else RIVAL will pull the product from their line as a 'non-seller'.  Planned obsolescence I guess!  More credit to the good ole' USA and greedy corporations.  DEFINITELY NOT worth the price charged.