What meat grinder do you recommend?

[KI Jim]

Last night, I made up 2 small batches of deer sausage (breakfast & italian) from some meat I had left over from last year-turned out great ! Anyway, I borrowed a meat grinder from a buddy of mine-it was a Porkert manual Cabellas $39.99 job. It worked okay-not great-just okay. I don't think I would buy one.

Anyway, what do you guys use? Are there any manuals ones you would recommend? How about an inexpensive electric?

By the way, the recepies I used, I picked up off of Eldons Sausage supply website-they were really good.

KI Jim

[el Cazador]

I just use the grinder attachment for our Kitchen Aid mixer...made a batch of sausage this weekend and it worked great.

[POLARBEAR]

probably cheaper yet is "the deluxe food grinder from maverick" i bought it at meijers for about $80. i really like this thing. works well for me.

[Bow Hunter Brandon]

Originally Posted by el Cazador

I just use the grinder attachment for our Kitchen Aid mixer...made a batch of sausage this weekend and it worked great.

Yep I bought the wife a mixer a few years back because she bakes all the time. This year I got tired of the hand crank grinder and went out and got the one that attaches to the mixer it worked great. I used a cleaver to cut the meat into good size chunks and ground it all up.

[skulldugary]

We bought an electric Oster brand for around 89 bucks and it works great...

[wild bill]

this is what i been using the past 5 years. works good for doing 1 or 2 deer a year.

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[schaaed1]

Bought my wife a KitchenAide mixer a couple years back for Christmas. The next year I bought her the grinder attachment (that went over well ... not). It does an OK job. I just wish they had better plates and knives, like a small commercial or the hand grinders. It does however take a while to grind, but it sure beats crankin!!

[PITBULL]

I have a rival 2300, Ive done about 50 deer with it and it is still going strong.
It has the steel body for the hopper I looked at some rivals that they make now and the hopper appears to be made of plastic. I would look at models with a metal hopper. Or that might be the way they are made now?
http://www.rivalcompany.com/support_..._grinders.aspx

[bluegoose]

i bought the electric one from cabelas it was 99.00 works pretty good

[THETOOLMAN]

I bought 1 from northern supply.com it cost $99.00 2 seasons and 10 deer ago. this year I see it is $129.00 works like a dream!! grinds deer up with 0 effort!!

[Raf]

i bought the smallest commercial grade grinder cabelas has its 1/2 hp stainless steel and it works awesome. it will grind up however much meat i put in there.

[Frantz]

Those ones that go on the Kitchen Aid, they looked like cheap plastic, you guys relly like them though? I have been holding off on one but it only makes sense to get one I guess, grind, mix and stuff all in one unit. What ar they like $70?

[alex-v]

The saying "You get what you pay for." really applies to meat grinders, both electric and manual. IOW, spend your money wisely.

I use a very old manual. With it we can grind meat faster than with most of the electrics I have tried. But, it does have a long handle and a larger sized hopper.

Plus, to speed things up it sometimes will be worthwhile to grind twice. The first time with a plate with large holes. Then, the second grinding with the plate with the holes to produce the size of ground meat that you want.

[SteeliePollock]

i have a hand crank one that i made a fixture to hold my 1/2 inch electric drill. so i don't do any cranking at all just turn on the drill on slow and grind away.

[BarryPatch]

I used the mixmaster grinder until the mixer burned up last year. It lasted almost 50 years (was my parents wedding gift). I still have the grinder which is all metal and high quality, I'd have bought a new mixmaster but I never used it for anything else.

I bought a 1hp grinder from Gander for $60. The working parts are crudely cast but it ground up two deer just fine. I can't see spending several hundred dollars on a grinder for 2-3 deer per year.