On Feb 16, 2:02 pm, Melondy > wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for this info.
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