• The best reason to buy and use a meat grinder is to control your own ground meat. Prepackaged ground meat can be sourced from multiple suppliers at multiple worldwide locations. This, along with the meat and trimming parts, which are not whole cuts of meat but instead meat next to bones, hides and extremities, helps to contribute to the difficulty in mass producing ground beef that is free of food borne pathogens like E. Coli or salmonella. Further, A meat grinder allows more control over fats, salts or other additives that go into your food and ultimately in your diet.
• Meat grinders can save money. Buy larger, unprocessed cuts of meat and later grind and process them yourself.
• Grinding whole cuts of meat like beef sirloin, sirloin tip or top round for lean burgers or boneless beef chuck steak or roast for more flavorful burgers will result in the best hamburgers you will taste.
• The meat grinder you choose should be selected according to your expected use. Manual meat grinders are fine for the occasional use and or small batch processing. However, if you plan to use a meat grinder more often to grind several pounds of meat at a time, then an electric meat grinder is the best choice.
• A meat grinder works and operates by forcing meat through sharpened blades. Initially, meat goes into a meat grinder through a hopper or funnel positioned at the top of the meat grinder and then goes into a horizontal screw conveyor. The hand crank or electric motor turns over the conveyor and forces the meat through a series of sharp blades and then pushes it out various sized plates or screens. The fineness of the meat grind can be changed by switching plates.

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Published 5/14/2011 12:00:00 AM

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