For those who home process their game

Tried using a friends Cabelas brand grinder this year, kept gumming up....went back to the kitchen aid and she plowed through about 28lbs of ground with ease. May look at a bigger grinder for next year, but tried and true kitchen aid has come through
 
I have a Dominion #10 grinder that I got from Value Village for $15. Tried hand cranking once, went in the garage to cut the head off a 5/16" bolt, chucked it in a 1/2" Makita d-handle drill, and had a powerful electric meat grinder. Highly recommended! But a commercial electric grinder would be nice ;-).
 
3 of us split on a craftex meat bandsaw and grinder all in one with 1hp motor about 12 years ago. it's here at my house now since we moved here 10 years ago and the 3 of us hunt here at my place. can run on 110 or 220v. looks new still and has never missed a beat. a purchase we've never regretted. only ever used the bandsaw table a few times when we've taken a deer late season and meat started to freeze. but the grinder is used on every deer. have used our kitchenaid 6qt mixer to grind meat as well, works fine but you do have to make sure you cut pieces to the right size to fit in the opening.
 
We had our pieces cut small and chilled, we started with the kitchen aid mix master attachment. Small and chilled we didn’t even need the plunger. Easy clean up and sterilized (bleach water, a slight mix) and back in the storage bags and box. The one thing I will do is order a couple of cutting knives from the states, thanks to Boo for that comment / suggestion.
 
I bought the highest rated $100 meat grinder. A Sunmile SM G33. It works great for moose, deer, bear and pork. It has tubes for sausage but I bought a horizontal 5lb sausage stuffer. Didn't like the meat getting ground twice.
I had 3 hand grinders, sold 1. Keeping 2 if power is an issue. Love the sausages we make. Mainly a breakfast sausage.
Going to have to look into that drill powered hand grinder idea. I have the Makita 1/2 inch drill as well.
 
I have a Cabelas 3/4 hp grinder for going on ten or twelve years now. It’s been great. If it ever needs to be replaced I would go with a larger one. This one will get warm if doing a large batch. We stopped using it to stuff sausage after maybe two years - it pushes it out too fast for me to contend with. Bought a fifteen pound vertical stuffer and never looked back
 
I murdered a Kitchenaid one time years ago by grinding lots of meat. I then realized that I had also murdered the machine that gave me cookies. That was dumb. I'm rather fond of cookies.

So I bought a standalone grinder.
 
Titan 08 said:
Actually it is, it comes with the stuffing tubes, etc so that you can do sausage, everything from breakfast sausage to brats to summer sausage, it also comes with the stuffing plate. You might want to check your source again.
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I think what pzkw108 meant was that it will put out too much meat through the tubes too fast and you won't be able to keep up.
 
DFarmer said:
I think what pzkw108 meant was that it will put out too much meat through the tubes too fast and you won't be able to keep up.
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Maybe he could clarify what he meant. If that’s the case it would be good to know as I have access to a manual stuffer although it is a pain with my hands. If it’s a situation of pushing out the stuffing too fast can you control it by only putting a limited amount of meat through at a time.
 
I use the cabelas 1 3/4 hp grinder.. it’s big, heavy and a pain to clean up after but it grinds meat as fast as you throw it down the chute 2 man feeding process to keep it grinding continuously... 2nd grind is abit slower Did I mention it’s big heavy and a pain in the ass to clean up
 
Have used a Weston #8 grinder for the last 4 years, it’s been rock solid. I generally use it to grind up trim and front quarters from 2 deer annually as well as any rabbits and bear I end up with for sausages, plus any of our excess roosters we grow out for meat. The sausage making accessories work well but I’d prefer a hand crank stuffer but that’s what I’m used to growing up while making sausages with my old man. I like the level of control a hand crank gives you while stuffing casings, just haven’t found one I want to buy yet.
 
BigUglyMan said:
I murdered a Kitchenaid one time years ago by grinding lots of meat. I then realized that I had also murdered the machine that gave me cookies. That was dumb. I'm rather fond of cookies.

So I bought a standalone grinder.
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agreed. I use the Ankarsrum "mincer" (meat grinder) attachment. After overheating my buddy'S kitchen aid a couple times and since my wife wanted a stand mixer I ended up with the ankarsrum. It has no issues getting through an entire dear or bear. Definitely different than what we are used to seeing in north america though. It's the old-school volvo or saab of kitchen appliances.

There was a company out in saskatchewan clearing out the previous model boxing day a couple years back. No regrets.

Only "downside" is the inlet hole is about 2in, so the meat needs to be cut into cubes or long thin strips. Not a dealbreaker for me.
 
sawatzky said:
My dad found a good deal on a #32 hand crank grinder. He found a reduction gear box and repurposed a 1hp motor and fabricated his own powered grinder. It may not pass csa approval, but it works great and chews meat up in no time. We can grind a couple hundred pounds of beef in 15-20 minutes as long as the cutters are sharp, a smaller animal like a deer is done in no time.
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I did virtually the same, except with a #10 hand grinder - a winch for the gear box from Princess Auto and a 3/4 horse motor in my case. Did up a V-belt drive with pulleys on motor and gear box to end up about 55 to 60 rpm on the grinder. Not even close to "CSA approval", I am sure, but works just fine to grind. Sucks as a sausage stuffer though, even though I bought multiple attachments - I need a "real" stuffing machine if I ever go back to that. But have the grinder part under control!!!
 
A buddies dad rigged up a motor to a hand grinder with a series of pulleys.The ground meat hit the wall on the other side of the room about IC pattern! Red Green would have been proud.
 
mbogo3 said:
A buddies dad rigged up a motor to a hand grinder with a series of pulleys.The ground meat hit the wall on the other side of the room about IC pattern! Red Green would have been proud.
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Too funny!! Bigger on driven end or smaller on driving end - needs to slow that puppy down, just a tad!!! Of course, Red Green's version would have left dents in the drywall - hoping your buddy's Dad was able to clean his off!!!
 
We have a Waring Pro MG100 which was about five years old when given to us about 8 years ago.
Came from a hard core hunter so I know it was used every season before we got it.
Used every year since. Likely about $99 new way back when..

Now it 'IS' noisy, (as in I wear ear protection when grinding 20+ lbs), it takes its time and a gentle pressure on the plunger is required, but works well for fine or medium grind. I always take the time to shave off all the silver skin, no tendons, and cut the meat into about 1" square strips when practical, and almost freeze the cut up meat before feeding into this grinder.

For my wife and I and the volume of meat we grind - works like a charm!
 
Titan 08 said:
I have been fighting for years with a kitchen aid meat grinder, the kind that goes on a mixmaster. Yesterday my wife tried it. We processed two deer, she saw what a pain that grinder is. Today she kicked me out the door to go buy something decent, I never complained to her about it before. We did the research, checked the reviews and I picked up a LEM Big Bite, .5 hp grinder. We did 40 pounds in ten minutes without having to use the plunger. Very heavy duty stainless steel components and unit. She got into it and wouldn’t let me do the grinding which I have always done. She told me to get a good one, screw the cost, $545 including gst. Easy to operate and very quiet, easy to put together and take down, no reverse though, however from what I saw I won’t need it. It is also a sausage stuffer. I’m not advocating you go out and buy this one, but if you home process your game, do yourself a favour and don’t procrastinate like I did. I just love that lady, also tells me to buy any firearm I want as she knows it’s better than throwing it away on beer and wings, which are also a great thing. You just gotta love a good woman, 40 years together and it only gets better.

PS, between my son and myself we have a bull moose, one mule deer buck, one mule deer doe, two WT bucks and two does. It sounds like a lot but with specialty products and normal cuts it all gets used. My son can’t eat beef, he reacts strongly when he eats it.
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I have an LEM Big Bite, yesterday it took longer to clean up than it did to grind 53 pounds of moose.:cool:
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I've been using this Hobart for about 20 yrs. Countless moose and deer, never let me down.

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