Hi,

With the publicity about BSE, I expect a lot of people will start grinding
their own hamburger. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one?

I have in mind one of those old-fashioned types that clamps onto the table,
and it would be nice if it would also grind nuts. I want to use it to make
almond flour.

It would also be nice if it was easy-clean. :-)

Anybody have any experience along those lines?

TIA,

Chakolate

--
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
Voltaire

Chakolate wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With the publicity about BSE, I expect a lot of people will start grinding
> their own hamburger. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one?
>
> I have in mind one of those old-fashioned types that clamps onto the table,
> and it would be nice if it would also grind nuts. I want to use it to make
> almond flour.
>

I used they type that your thinking of for the first time yesterday. It
works OK. Mine only has one plate for the meat to come out and it is a
little more coarse then the ground beef from the grocery store.

I used a round steak and did not trim off the fat. Some of the fat did
not go through well. Next time I will try and trim off the fat and pre
chop it and see if that works better.

Not sure how it would work for grinding nuts. It was about $10, so if it
grinds meat OK, I guess it is worth it. It also has some sausage
stuffer attachments. I want to try these also. But that will be a
couple of weeks.

> It would also be nice if it was easy-clean. :-)
>

I thought it was easy enough to clean. The worm is very easy to clean.
The shute is large enough to get an average hand in for cleaning.

> Anybody have any experience along those lines?
>

My .02. HTH

Meatgrinder yesterday. Italian cook today !!!!!

> TIA,
>
> Chakolate
>

You might consider a KitchenAid stand mixer with the meat grinder
attachment. It will work fine for home quantities of ground meat, and you
have a mixer (so that you can make your own hamburger buns, or pasta dough
for ravioli, et al). The mixer also has a grain mill attachment for flour
(I don't know if it would handle nuts; you might have to pre-chop the nuts
in a food processor to grain-size bits), and pasta roller, etc.

May I ask what you do with almond flour?

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"Chakolate" > wrote in message
.4...
> Hi,
>
> With the publicity about BSE, I expect a lot of people will start grinding
> their own hamburger. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one?
>
> I have in mind one of those old-fashioned types that clamps onto the
table,
> and it would be nice if it would also grind nuts. I want to use it to
make
> almond flour.
>
> It would also be nice if it was easy-clean. :-)
>
> Anybody have any experience along those lines?
>
> TIA,
>
> Chakolate
>
> --
> The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
> disease.
> Voltaire

On 28 Dec 2003, Chakolate > wrote:

>With the publicity about BSE, I expect a lot of people will start grinding
>their own hamburger. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good one?

Most people, if they have a grinder, only have one. So it's a rare person
that can actually compare grinders. This is a slightly newer model of what
I have:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...0016969515656a

It worked fine for 25# of bison. Done in three batches. We ground the first
third with the large holed plate. Then did it again through the small
holes. The other two thirds we only did through the small holes.

We did not use the sausage stuffer. While we did make sausage, we formed it
into balls. Then used a patty press, with patty papers, to form a patty. My
press is thinner than this and maxes out at a 4 oz. patty:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...tml?id=0005993

Patty papers:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...0021209516082a

The grinder was not too hard to clean. (And much easier than a meat
slicer!)

Warning -> While we put a patty paper on each side of the patty in the
freezer the papers stuck together and I had to use a screwdriver to get
them apart. Ideally frozen flat on trays before stacking in plastic bags.
Or we were thinking next time to put each patty, with the papers, into a
basic sandwich bag. Then no stick issue, and can leave in the bag when
defrosting. And less chance for the meat to get dry along the edge that is
between the papers.

> I want to use it to make
>almond flour.

For small quantities I use an oval Krups coffee grinder. But the new style
is no good. Has to be the old style with the higher blades. (Barely used
old style ones readily available on eBay.) If I was doing larger quantities
I get one of the burr grinders, as shown he

http://waltonfeed.com/self/grinders.html

Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

meatgrinder > wrote in
newsPHHb.681305$Tr4.1703595@attbi_s03:

> Not sure how it would work for grinding nuts. It was about $10, so if it
> grinds meat OK, I guess it is worth it. It also has some sausage
> stuffer attachments. I want to try these also. But that will be a
> couple of weeks.
>

But what was the brand?

Chak

--
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
Voltaire

"Louis Cohen" > wrote in
news:0kJHb.687502$Fm2.594029@attbi_s04:

> You might consider a KitchenAid stand mixer with the meat grinder
> attachment. It will work fine for home quantities of ground meat, and
> you have a mixer (so that you can make your own hamburger buns, or
> pasta dough for ravioli, et al). The mixer also has a grain mill
> attachment for flour (I don't know if it would handle nuts; you might
> have to pre-chop the nuts in a food processor to grain-size bits), and
> pasta roller, etc.

Unfortunately, I'm a grad student, and therefore broke. (Although not yet
broken.)

> May I ask what you do with almond flour?


I low carb, so almond flour is a great substitute for flour. Frying,
cheesecake crusts, whatever, almond flour is so much better than wheat
flour.

Chakolate



--
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
Voltaire

Don Wiss > wrote in
:
>
> Most people, if they have a grinder, only have one. So it's a rare
> person that can actually compare grinders. This is a slightly newer
> model of what I have:
>
> http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...ard-item.jhtml
> ?id=0016969515656a

Yeah, that's a nice one. But I forgot to mention that I'm a student and
have zero income, so I need something cheap. Maybe I'll go look on e-bay,
though. Thanks.

> Warning -> While we put a patty paper on each side of the patty in the
> freezer the papers stuck together and I had to use a screwdriver to
> get them apart. Ideally frozen flat on trays before stacking in
> plastic bags. Or we were thinking next time to put each patty, with
> the papers, into a basic sandwich bag. Then no stick issue, and can
> leave in the bag when defrosting. And less chance for the meat to get
> dry along the edge that is between the papers.
>

Or you might just try putting two papers between each pattie. The papers
are less likely to stick to each other, and it's friendlier to landfill.


> For small quantities I use an oval Krups coffee grinder. But the new
> style is no good. Has to be the old style with the higher blades.
> (Barely used old style ones readily available on eBay.) If I was doing
> larger quantities I get one of the burr grinders, as shown he

Unfortunately, with a coffee grinder I keep making almond paste. :-(

>
> http://waltonfeed.com/self/grinders.html
>
> Don <donwiss at panix.com>.


Thanks, Don. The suggestions are much appreciated.

Chakolate


--
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the
disease.
Voltaire

On 29 Dec 2003, Chakolate > wrote:

>Don Wiss wrote:

>>> I want to use it to make almond flour.

>> For small quantities I use an oval Krups coffee grinder. But the new
>> style is no good. Has to be the old style with the higher blades.
>> (Barely used old style ones readily available on eBay.) If I was doing
>> larger quantities I get one of the burr grinders, as shown he
>
>Unfortunately, with a coffee grinder I keep making almond paste. :-(

Yes, in the new ones that is what happens along the bottom. Looking at the
blade the old one has both ends pointing up. New has one up and one down.
The old has a completely flat bottom below the blades. The new has the
blades coming out of a mound in the bottom surface. Also look at the bottom
and see where it was made. The old was Hong Kong and the new is France or
Mexico.

Don <donwiss at panix.com>.

Chakolate > wrote:

> Yeah, that's a nice one. But I forgot to mention that I'm a student and
> have zero income, so I need something cheap. Maybe I'll go look on e-bay,
> though. Thanks.

Find a local thrift store. You can probably find an old
hand crank grinder there, or possibly by checking out
local yard sales. Probably way cheaper than e-bay.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

> wrote in message ...
> Chakolate > wrote:
>
> > Yeah, that's a nice one. But I forgot to mention that I'm a student and
> > have zero income, so I need something cheap. Maybe I'll go look on
e-bay,
> > though. Thanks.
>
> Find a local thrift store. You can probably find an old
> hand crank grinder there, or possibly by checking out
> local yard sales. Probably way cheaper than e-bay.
>
> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, Va.

Be sure to check for rust. Most of these older grinders are galvanized iron
and if the coating has worn off they will rust.


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Peter Aitken

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Chakolate wrote:
> meatgrinder > wrote in
> newsPHHb.681305$Tr4.1703595@attbi_s03:
>
>
>>Not sure how it would work for grinding nuts. It was about $10, so if it
>>grinds meat OK, I guess it is worth it. It also has some sausage
>>stuffer attachments. I want to try these also. But that will be a
>>couple of weeks.
>>
>
>
> But what was the brand?
>

Sorry, I don't know. It is stamped 'made in china'. That's it.
Obviously, they are not proud of their product.

meatgrinder

> Chak
>