wff_ng_7 wrote:
> "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.
>

Biggest problem with freezing the meat is that ground meat doesnt' keep
frozen as well as larger pieces of meat. Ground meat has a very short
'shelf life'. And small pieces like ground patties keep the shortest.

Melondy