"mm" > wrote in message:
> I bought electric meat grinder less than a year ago. It's Back to
> Basic model 4500. So far I have used it only three times + the first
> time when it didn't word due to setup error. So you can see that I am
> a small time user. I tried finding out info on alterantive to buying
> a meat grinder.
>
> The purpose of buying it was to get lean ground chicken. I find that
> using it to make kleab ground chicken is time-consuming because eat
> gets stuck on all pieces that would get dry if I didn't wash it
> immediately. Then I need to do towel dry so that the parts won't get
> oxidized. Parts have oxidized when I failed to dry with towels and I
> got white stuff into the meat and so I got replacement.
>
> I will need to sell it or put it away since I just can't afford to
> spend that much time cleaning up.
>
> So what is my alternative to makign grind chicken meat, in small
> amount (cooking for just one person; I don't like to eat the same
> thing again and again in a row and so I make multiple dishes at a
> time). There will be mainly 2 dishes with this meat: Thai style stir
> fry with basil and making pot stickers.

I run into the same problem of time consuming cleanup, and I don't think
there is a solution. What I do is grind larger quantities of meat and then
freeze it. I haven't ground chicken, but I have done beef and pork. With the
beef I might put some of the ground meat into a meal like stuffed cabbage or
peppers, and take the rest and make it into hamburger patties and freeze
them. When I grind pork, I'm making sausage patties, the bulk of which get
frozen for future use. The cleanup isn't such a big deal when grinding
larger quantities.

I suppose you could grind large quantities of chicken, then freeze the
ground meat into serving size portions for future use.