Manual meat grinder
A clamp-on hand grinder for grinding your own beef, pork or chicken
Hopper, auger, die plate, clamped to the counter and turned by hand. Grinding at home means choosing the cut and the coarseness. Those two choices are most of the gap between a good burger and a supermarket tray. For a couple of pounds at a time it beats an electric grinder once you count the cleaning, at a fraction of the price. Keep the meat and the parts cold. Warm fat smears rather than cutting, and the texture turns pasty.
People on record
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- J. Kenji López-AltDoes it
Chef and food writer · The Food Lab
Grinds his own beef because he wants control over the grind, while saying store-bought ground beef is fine. He used to run an electric grinder and moved off it: for the amounts a home cook deals with, he finds a clamp-on manual one does the job faster and with less trouble.
Source: kenjilopezalt.com: 7 Gifts for Burger Lovers
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