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you have to know how to use it, in addition to understanding how to grind meat on a less than professional meat grinder. Those of you who have written terrible reviews on this product, do not know how to properly grind meat on low cost machines and you came in with expectations too high. I assure you if you simply shove hunks of meat in this machine any old way and expect it to grind, it will not. It might even clog and break.
A $1500 professional meat grinder will almost grind any meat you feed into it without worry. Home use grinders do not. That is why they are a fraction of the cost. You must have reasonable expectations, and in the end, befriending a local butcher who will custom grind your meat might be the best option for you.
Here are some rules to grinding beef on this grinder, as well as most other home use grinders.
1) Make sure you trim the filmy connective tissue off your cuts of meat. If you don't, they will wrap around the grinding spool, clog the holes in the grinding wheel and cause problems.
2) Cut your meat into small 1 to 1.5" pieces. No larger!
3) Very important! Never ever put meat into this type of grinder unless it is very very cold. Almost frozen, but not quite frozen. It should be very firm, but not hard like a rock. Put your meat in the freezer for at least an hour, no more than two before grinding. Another tip would be to take apart the grinding spool, blade and grinding wheel, and keep them in the freezer until you need to use them. Assemble and use. Keeping the grinding parts of this machine cold helps too, especially when you get to the fatty pieces.
4) Use the larger course grinding wheel, especially you are using fatty pieces of meat. You can run it through again on a smaller grinding wheel for a finer grind if you wish.
5) Feed the fattier pieces of meat in first, especially when making burger patties. If you run them through at the end, they may become to warm and start to smear, which is not what you want. They can also clog the holes in the grinding wheel. You want firm speckled pieces of fat in your ground beef for best flavor results.
6) If the meat starts coming out more slowly after halfway through, you might be getting some clogging due to smearing of fat. Stop and take apart the spool, blade and wheel to clean.
7) Slowly push the meat down the feeding tube, do not shove it down with force. This machine will actually grind about a pound per minute if you let it. forcing causes clogging.
I know this seems like a lot of trouble, but it really isn't. Lean cuts of meat like chicken breast are much easier to work with. It is the fattier pieces of meat that you have to use more care with. It was 35 years ago when I last worked in a steakhouse as a butcher. I remember how those machines worked. You could feed almost anything into them at almost any temperature and you would get great grinds. Commercial machines are designed that way. Home machines work fine for the occasional grind of meat as long as you know how to use them.
Hope this helps in your decision.
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This was a BIG mistake! The grinder is very cheaply made, and I mean VERY.. I got things all ready to grind some meat, turned it on and it spit out 5 or 6 meat grindings and then made a horrible noise. I quickly turned it off, and took the grinder apart. Meat was wrapped around the screw (the one that turns to push the meat out, which had to be cut off very slowly with a knife and pair of scissors. After finishing that long task, I saw at the end of the grinder screw that the plastic nut was cracked in 4 places(which explains why I had plastic chunks in the few strands of meat that did come out). It hadn't been cracked when I put the grinder together. I had a huge mess to clean up, not to mention all the aggravation I went through with . I absolutely DO NOT recommend this product.Best Deals on Maverick MM-5501 Mince Master 575-Watt Meat Grinder, White
I bought another meat grinder that got good reviews on Amazon but it didn't work well for my purpose--grinding chicken necks for dog food. I ended up selling it to a hunter after I used it once. Then I bought this Maverick and have used it four or five times with no problems--it is excellent for grinding chicken necks. Do not put the aluminum pieces in the dishwasher on sanitize setting however--they will end up dark with a powdery coating that comes off on your hands.Honest reviews on Maverick MM-5501 Mince Master 575-Watt Meat Grinder, White
I have used this product for a few months to grind chicken and cheese. Both work great on fine grind die. I am confused about the advertisement that Amazon claims it grinds nuts because the safety instructions say in one place that it will grind nuts but then on another page it says not to grind nuts... confusing. I have saved over $90 buying frozen chicken breasts at $2/lb and grinding it vs the $6/lb I used to pay. I have seen complaints about the plastic components but have not had troubles as of yet; they may have never bought it or didn't read the directions and over tightened the assembly. I ground about 4lbs in less than 20 mins. The longest is prep and cleaning which is way easier than I though it would be. Buy a special bruch that will clean the dies they hard fairly hard to clean (at least the fine one is due to the small holes). I have owned the product between two and three months.I still use this at least once a month with no problems. It still works just as well as it did when it was new. The savings of grinding my own meat has been a life saver. No more costly preground meat.
I bought a baby bottle brush and it works great for cleaning out the fine attachment.
February 5 2013 EDIT:
I still use this whenever I buy bulk chicken with no problems at all.
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