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Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« on: August 02, 2012, 05:13:36 AM »
Im looking for a QUALITY USA made manual hand crank meat grinder. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2012, 01:31:07 PM »
Only grinder I have ever purchased was from a website called GrinderGuy.com.  Think he was in Portland, OR.  Advertised free shipping.  I live on the Outer Banks of NC.  The grinder weighed 72 pounds.  Ordered a high capacity model from him and have been completely satisfied for about ten years.  Bought it on halves with a partner.  We thought about grinding fish scraps and selling chum bags, but never did.  We run about 500 lbs of venison through it once per year.  We double grind with 15% beef fat.  Takes about as long to wash up the grinder as it does to process the venison.  We use a big pot of boiling water with a little degreaser to clean the parts.  Works for us.  We then vacuum pack all the venison using a commercial vacuum machine.  Suggest you Google for this business.

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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2012, 11:07:48 PM »
id stick with a LEM or Weston
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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 01:21:12 AM »
I was looking at lem and weston and I think they are being made in china.




Cut Rite is still here but they started coating their grinders with some chemical rather than tin  :-\


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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2012, 12:10:46 AM »
ive got an lem and i dont think anything is coated with tin or chemicals. everything on it is stainless steal. Never heard of cut rite so I cant comment to there quality.
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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2012, 06:23:06 AM »
I think he meant chop-rite.I know some don't like ebay but  a lot of good American made hand meat grinders posted

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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2012, 09:01:59 PM »

I wouldn't worry to much about the coating on the chop rites. I have an enterprise grinder. Chop rite bought them out and didn't change the original designs. The coating on them today is probably safer than the tinned coating on the one I have. It's just a non stick coating that they put on frying pans and such. I have a few with it on them. Guessing teflon is a trademark of dupont, so this other coating must be owned by a competitor.
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Re: Recommend a meat grinder (please! )
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2012, 02:40:54 AM »
sorry, i overlooked the handcrank part of your post
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