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flamin lib (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 01:41 PM
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Any recommendations on a home meat grinder?
I don't anticipate doing much sausage making, but when/if I get one of those feral pigs that roam the deer camp it may be an opportunity to explore the world of custom grinding. Besides, pork shoulder goes on sale for .99 pretty often as does brisket and I'm told that brisket makes a nice medium rare burger . . .
I'd like to keep it under $150 and lower is better.
NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 02:21 PM
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1. if you already own a stand mixer, most of them offer a meat grinder accessory
flamin lib (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 04:40 PM
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3. No stand mixer and not really interested in one, looking for a stand alone grinder, preferably electric.
The defrocked warped primitive:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 03:35 PM
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2. I had a hand grinder years ago
It required a lot of muscle, but it did the job and had an attachment to fill the casings. You can also use a food processor and some of those can be had quite reasonably. The cheap ones won't do bread dough, but they'll grind meat in small batches.
Also good is the two cleaver method, one in each hand, attacking the meat on a cutting board. It's low tech and offers a great deal of control, easy cleanup, and a way to get your aggression out.
If you have a Kitchen Aid mixer, there are great grinder and sausage attachments for it so that you don't have to fill the casings by hand.
I dunno.
After reading the unfrocked warped primitive's comment, a horrid picture came into this head; the image of the defrocked warped primitive "working out" her aggression with a couple of meat cleavers, splattering blood and sinew all over the floor.
The only image worse is that of Alfred Packer, the hippybubby, Grandma's skinflint tightwad husband, hewing away at bones with meat-cleavers.
