meat grinders

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I have a meat grinder/sausage stuffer. The cheap kind that you clamp to a counter top and turn the
crank to get your ground meat. I tried using it for the first time and did not assemble it
correctly. Now the meat is very so ground up it looks like mush. I want to make meatballs out of
this. Do you think it will be OK for meat balls? I used a round steak.

Also, is a top round roast a good meat to make ground beef? It is on sale now and am considering
getting one if OK to grind. Otherwise, I would not know what to do with a top round roast. What
are other meats good for making ground beef?

Thank you, Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

Your "mushy" ground meat will probably result in rather compact meatballs, but you might test one
first, then adjust your other ingredients accordingly. I would probably add some breadcrumbs made
from fresh bread to lighten it a bit.

Top round would make excellent "ground round", as would a sirloin roast make excellent "chopped
sirloin". If you're used to seeing various degrees of fat in the ground meats at your supermarket,
you might want to bear that in mind and include some fat in the grind to achieve the percentage you
prefer; e.g., 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% fat. Ground meat with absolutely no fat is often rather dry and not
as tasty, regardless the quality of the meat.

Wayne

meatgrinder said:

I have a meat grinder/sausage stuffer. The cheap kind that you clamp to a counter top and turn the
crank to get your ground meat. I tried using it for the first time and did not assemble it
correctly. Now the meat is very so ground up it looks like mush. I want to make meatballs out of
this. Do you think it will be OK for meat balls? I used a round steak.

Also, is a top round roast a good meat to make ground beef? It is on sale now and am considering
getting one if OK to grind. Otherwise, I would not know what to do with a top round roast. What
are other meats good for making ground beef?

Thank you, Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

Sorry for the error. It is not a top round roast on sale it is a sirloin tip roast that is on sale.
Is this a good meat to make ground beef.

Thank you. Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I already have
the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for ground meat. Jane

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meatgrinder said:

I have a meat grinder/sausage stuffer. The cheap kind that you clamp to a counter top and turn
the crank to get your ground meat. I tried using it for the first time and did not assemble it
correctly. Now the meat is very so ground up it looks like mush. I want to make meatballs out of
this. Do you think it will be OK for meat balls? I used a round steak.

Also, is a top round roast a good meat to make ground beef? It is on sale now and am considering
getting one if OK to grind. Otherwise, I would not know what to do with a top round roast. What
are other meats good for making ground beef?

Thank you, Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

Sorry for the error. It is not a top round roast on sale it is a sirloin tip roast that is on
sale. Is this a good meat to make ground beef.

Thank you. Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

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Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I already
have the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for ground
meat. Jane

I have the Kitchenaid meat grinder attachment. It gives good results, and is far preferable to using
a food processor (more even results and no chance of ending up with mush). It is easy to assemble
and clean. One of my favorite things to do with it is to buy a piece of chuck, trim it well, and
make hamburger. The results are far more flavorful than hamburger mande from other cuts, and have
less fat than store-bought ground chuck.

Debbie

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(Jane) said:

Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I already
have the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for ground
meat. Jane

Not only yes but he** yes! :-) I grew up with mom's kitche aid and use the meat grinder on it
whenever I need to grind meat.... It is fan-tastic for it. Very reliable and works great. The
cleanup is pretty easy too, but be sure that you have a nice big bottle brush.

K.

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Debbie Deutsch said:

I have the Kitchenaid meat grinder attachment. It gives good results, and is far preferable to
using a food processor (more even results and no chance of ending up with mush). It is easy to
assemble and clean. One of my favorite things to do with it is to buy a piece of chuck, trim it
well, and make hamburger. The results are far more flavorful than hamburger mande from other cuts,
and have less fat than store-bought ground chuck.

Yes - I'm quite pleased with my Kitchenaid grinder attachment. It's easy to use, easy to clean, and
gives good results.

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Debbie Deutsch said:

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Quoted message said:

Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I already
have the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for ground
meat. Jane

I have the Kitchenaid meat grinder attachment. It gives good results, and is far preferable to
using a food processor (more even results and no chance of ending up with mush). It is easy to
assemble and clean. One of my favorite things to do with it is to buy a piece of chuck, trim it
well, and make hamburger. The results are far more flavorful than hamburger mande from other cuts,
and have less fat than store-bought ground chuck.

Debbie

Agreed. :-) And, DO try the sausage cone that will attach to the meat grinder for making sausage!
You can buy cleaned, salted casings at most stores... Just rinse and wet them good and slide them
onto the cone, tie a knot in the end and twist the casing according to the size sausage that you
want. QED.

Wunnderful and you can make them lower in salt than most commercial sausages.

Speaking of which, anyone got any good sausage spice recipes to share???

K.

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Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I already
have the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for ground
meat. Jane

It's OK. It has a narrow feed tube which limits the speed of grinding, and only two grinding plates
so you are limited to coarse and medium grinds. For occasional use with small batches it is fine.

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Peter Aitken

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Steve Wertz said:

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Jane said:

Has anyone had experience with the meat grinder attachment for the Kitchenaid? Since I
already have the Kitchenaid mixer, I am wondering if the attachment is the best way to go for
ground meat.

The Kitchen Aid grinder attachment is too small for proper grinding, essentially it's a toy. And
considering that attachement sells for $40-$50 it makes no sense not to add a few dollars more and
buy a real grinder, a dedicated grinder, one that won't ruin that perfectlly good piece of meat
you spent good money for by turing it into mush, one that will grind all sorts ot ingredients that
won't even fit into that stupid plastic toy.

The Kitchenaid grinder attachment works very well. Expensive as is the case for all Kitchenaid
gadgets, but its fine for small (10lbs or less) jobs.

Mush? Hardly. The design of of the KA attachment is the same as all other grinders on the market.

-sw

Yup we just used ours for the first time tonight. Did us proud with a chunk of brisket and some pork
for chili meat. I'm satisfied so far.

modom

meatgrinder said:

I have a meat grinder/sausage stuffer. The cheap kind that you clamp to a counter top and turn the
crank to get your ground meat. I tried using it for the first time and did not assemble it
correctly. Now the meat is very so ground up it looks like mush. I want to make meatballs out of
this. Do you think it will be OK for meat balls? I used a round steak.

Also, is a top round roast a good meat to make ground beef? It is on sale now and am considering
getting one if OK to grind. Otherwise, I would not know what to do with a top round roast. What
are other meats good for making ground beef?

Thank you, Meat Grinder today. Italian cook tomorrow !

I posted here a couple of years ago looking for additional plates for our Kitchenaid. A reply was
posted by Hartmut Kunze, a certified master chef, who said that the plate size of the Kitchenaid was
a #5 or #8, and that made it a toy (he doesn't mince words). I replied that it was what I could
afford, and he countered with a web page to Allied Kenko, where I purchased, for $36, the manual
Porkert grinder (have you ever seen a better name for a grinder?) that I've been using since. I make
sausages and the difference in the resulting product is obvious, as is the process: When grinding, I
can hear the pings of the knife going past each hole.

Hartmut said that if I didn't have large plates and sharp knifes, I'd produce
mush sooner or later. Looks like you had that problem. I had, too, but hadn't
recognized it. I've been using my Kitchenaid as an example of a small grinder.
But if your plate is more than 2.5 inches in diameter, it might be a #10 or
#12, just dull. I'd keep that grinder and just get a new knife and plate(s).
Here's a plate site: cmcchef.comGrinderSpecs.htmOpen ↗ to tell you about plates, and below is
where to get them. Hartmut's site is brimming with great info and instructions, as well.

cmcchef.comcmcchef.comOpen ↗

alliedkenco.comgrinder.htmOpen ↗

I hope this has been of some help.

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meatgrinder said:

I have a meat grinder/sausage stuffer.

A reply was posted by Hartmut Kunze, who said that the plate size of the Kitchenaid was a #5 or #8,
and that made it a

toy.

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I replied that it was what I could afford, >and he countered with a web page

to >Allied Kenko, where I purchased, for $36, >the manual Porkert grinder (have you ever seen a
better name for a grinder?)

"Chuck Boy" ! ! !

Idiots!

Ahahahahahahahahaha. . . .

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Chuck Bollinger said:

alliedkenco.comgrinder.htmOpen ↗

Hi Chuck, glad to see you are still about. I used the pan you gave me to make a pilaf just the other
day. RE: the above site: I loved the "what causes mushy meat" section, with this photos tucked into
the text. Helpful and oddly funny at the same time. blacksalt the poster formerly known as "tj"