DIY Meat Processing Question
 

OK you do it your selfers. Got a question you guys. How many of you still use a hand crank meat grinder for your burger? More specifically the Keystone one? I run across a good deal on a Keystone 20 for$6...but not sure if it'd be worth breaking a $10 over. Id like to have an electric one, but right now can't justify it with Christmas coming up soon. Maybe next year.

RE: DIY Meat Processing Question
 

Funny you ask. I was butchering a doe I shot last week and went to grind the meat and had lost the blade to my hand grinder. Thats all ive ever used, a hand grinder. My grinder is so old, I can not find a replacement blade, so im going to have to buy a new one. Ill be buying a new hand grinder agian.

Why I like a hand grinder? Its cheap and easy to clean. Besides, my daughter would kill me if I bought and electric. She loves tocrank the grinder.;)

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Oh, yea, buy the grinder. I would.;)

RE: DIY Meat Processing Question
 

for 6 $ idon't think you could go wrong . An electric would be much better but a hand one will get the job done . some are able to hook up a motor to it instead of the crank maybe that is an option

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For $6....you can't go wrong. That's one Big Mac meal.

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Looks to be in great condition. A little surface rust but not readily noticeable. How hard are the blades to sharpen?

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Blads are just single bevled. Ive hit mine with a file from time to time and they keep working fine.

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I use a hand grinder all the time when i grind meat. sure it take a bit longer but hey its not too bad.

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It takes me no longer. I cut the meat, hand it to my daughter and she does the grinding. Doenst slow me down one bit. lol.:D

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Just seems like a pain. Used a grinder like this the last time and it clogged up. I guess I didnt get enough stringy stuff out and enough of the thin film on the muscle off.