skyking
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Well ,i'm already thinking about hunting season.Been wanting a meat grinder and dont know which kind to get .Hand or electric. Any suggestions?
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Meat grinder
- Thread starter skyking
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Mr.Nutcase
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A knife?
Toymeister
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electric, no question. Meat grinders are sized by the grinding plate. I can't recall if they end in 2 or 0 but the sizes are something like 12, 22 or 32. The 12 is too small, you have to cut the meat too small for game processing. 22 is fine.
Hand crank are generally 12s such as the kitchen aid meat grinder attachment.
Hand crank are generally 12s such as the kitchen aid meat grinder attachment.
tjmonsen5
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if you go hand grinder, you should go to the flea market. There are always at least 10 to choose from.
machine_punk
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If you already have the large Kitchenaid mixer, you might consider their attachment for grinding meat. I've been using it to grind my own meat lately (buy a pork and beef roast and grind them down into a pork/beef mix for 'hamburger.')
You want the meat 'almost frozen' when you grind it (the warmer the meat is, the worse the results). I put the roasts in the freezer for a good hour before grinding.
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You want the meat 'almost frozen' when you grind it (the warmer the meat is, the worse the results). I put the roasts in the freezer for a good hour before grinding.
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BWS
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+1 on finding hand grinders at the flea mkt.I'd pick one up....then take your time looking for a deal on an electric one.
bobcatdan
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I would second the kitchen aid mixer attachment. They work very well.
jjjrmx5
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Kitchen Aid and the sausage grinder attachment.
The bigger issue is the stuffing device.
I suggest the vertical drum stuffer with the top handle and front output stuffer tube.
I can't think of the mfgr off hand but well worth the money spent. Not cheap, but will last a lifetime. Some can be found used as well.
The bigger issue is the stuffing device.
I suggest the vertical drum stuffer with the top handle and front output stuffer tube.
I can't think of the mfgr off hand but well worth the money spent. Not cheap, but will last a lifetime. Some can be found used as well.
Outlawmws
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Unless you are doing an awful lot of meat, a hand grinder is perfectly fine. you are not likely to be doing the whole animal, (I'm thinking deer sized game here) and 5-10 lbs of meat through a hand grinder is nothing. Plus as mentioned, they are cheap second hand...
If you are going to make it all into sausage, that may be a different story.
If you are going to make it all into sausage, that may be a different story.
Not Born Yesterday
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I process a whole deer almost every deer season. Everything gets ground up except for the back strap. I use a Kitchen Aid mixer grinder attachment and sausage stuffer tube for packaging the ground meat into a plastic wild game wrapper. I must admit that it takes most of a day to process it with the Kitchen Aid but it works well and doing it once a year is tolerable.