If you stopped it that means you’ve started to wear the gear teeth. The metal used for the gears is weak (though apparently there was a period in the late 90s/early 2000s where they briefly used plastic gearing, stupid). If you one day hear a chunk and then the normal mixing noises but the hook is no longer moving then congrats, you’ve stripped the teeth. Bagel dough def makes sense

I would also LOVE a slicer. I don’t eat meat but I like to make fake lunch meat out of wheat gluten and pea protein sometimes. slicing it with a knife is never the same as I’d get with a slicer. But it’s just so much space! If I ever run across a deal at a restaurant or deli closing down though I’ll probably pull the trigger. I do love going to auctions whenever a place shuts down, it’s how I got my wok burner