Grinding your own beef

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:22:05 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I bought a 2 hp grinder at Cabela's for $49.95.

I've only ever looked at Waring blenders.

What brand is yours and how do you like it?

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Sheldon said:

Nowadays butchers/meatcutters don't clean anything. A cleaning crew
comes in after hours and steam cleans everything, including the
grinder, saw, work tables, walls, floors, everything. The only
cleaning the grinder sees during the day is when the type of meat is
changed, say from beef to pork, then a half loaf of cheap white bread
is pushed through, that's it. Stupidmarkets will have no more than
two grinders, but one is kept on standby just in case the one in use
conks out. There is no reason to have more than one meat grinder in
use, those big commercial grinders are capable of handling 20lbs of
meat per minute, probably more.... my little home grinder does 4lbs/
minute.

Sheldon

I've not measured just how fast mine grinds, but it's fast enough that
we have to really go for it to keep up with it. :-)

It's really awesome.
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In article said:

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:22:05 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

I bought a 2 hp grinder at Cabela's for $49.95.

I've only ever looked at Waring blenders.

What brand is yours and how do you like it?

The grinder or the blender? :-)

The blender is and Oster and it works fine.

The grinder? Ok, you are making me get up to read the box and stuff. I
bought it at Cabela's and it had the Cabela's logo on it. Dad peeled it
off and I chewed him out for doing that! <G>

Let's see...

Say's Cabela's heavy duty Butcher shop and smokehouse meat grinder.
One of the package inserts says PragoTrade.

It's model # 33-0101

Seems it is a proprietary unit marketed for Cabela's.

As for how do I like it??? I LOVE it!
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Omelet said:

Sheldon said:

Nowadays butchers/meatcutters don't clean anything. A cleaning crew
comes in after hours and steam cleans everything, including the
grinder, saw, work tables, walls, floors, everything. The only
cleaning the grinder sees during the day is when the type of meat is
changed, say from beef to pork, then a half loaf of cheap white bread
is pushed through, that's it. Stupidmarkets will have no more than
two grinders, but one is kept on standby just in case the one in use
conks out. There is no reason to have more than one meat grinder in
use, those big commercial grinders are capable of handling 20lbs of
meat per minute, probably more.... my little home grinder does 4lbs/
minute.

I've not measured just how fast mine grinds, but it's fast enough that
we have to really go for it to keep up with it. :-)

I don't know which grinder you have (capacity should be in the manual)
but even the smallest electric home grinder will handle about 3lbs/
min... many commercial grinders the sze used at stupidmarkets can
grind a pound a second, about a ton and a half an hour:

http://tinyurl.com/2tfh3w

http://www.alliedkenco.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=23_22_109&osCsid=900d0d34c2e07a62426ccf9ad5b22ffc

But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
hehe

Sheldon

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Sheldon said:

Omelet said:

Sheldon said:

Nowadays butchers/meatcutters don't clean anything. A cleaning crew
comes in after hours and steam cleans everything, including the
grinder, saw, work tables, walls, floors, everything. The only
cleaning the grinder sees during the day is when the type of meat is
changed, say from beef to pork, then a half loaf of cheap white bread
is pushed through, that's it. Stupidmarkets will have no more than
two grinders, but one is kept on standby just in case the one in use
conks out. There is no reason to have more than one meat grinder in
use, those big commercial grinders are capable of handling 20lbs of
meat per minute, probably more.... my little home grinder does 4lbs/
minute.

I've not measured just how fast mine grinds, but it's fast enough that
we have to really go for it to keep up with it. :-)

I don't know which grinder you have (capacity should be in the manual)
but even the smallest electric home grinder will handle about 3lbs/
min... many commercial grinders the sze used at stupidmarkets can
grind a pound a second, about a ton and a half an hour:

Did some searching, it's 400 watt.

Quoted message said:

But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
hehe

Sheldon

That's MY biziness!
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Omelet said:

Quoted message said:

But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
hehe

Quoted message said:

Sheldon

That's MY biziness!

It's to your sausage biziness that I was referring. hehe

Sheldon

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Sheldon said:

Omelet said:

Quoted message said:

But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
hehe

Quoted message said:

Sheldon

That's MY biziness!

It's to your sausage biziness that I was referring. hehe

Sheldon

Mmmmm...

Sausage!

http://i12.tinypic.com/2ai2352.jpg

From my home made series the first time I used the new grinder. ;-D
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Omelet said:

Sheldon said:

Omelet wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
> yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
> hehe

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> Sheldon

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

That's MY biziness!

Quoted message said:

It's to your sausage biziness that I was referring. hehe

Mmmmm...

Sausage!

http://i12.tinypic.com/2ai2352.jpg

From my home made series the first time I used the new grinder. ;-D

Those are lewd! ;-D

For fresh pork sausage I tend towards making patties, much easier to
prepare and they cook up crispy... but I get your point... you like
boy sausage like how I like girl sausage.

Sheldon

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:00:58 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The grinder? Ok, you are making me get up to read the box and stuff. I
bought it at Cabela's and it had the Cabela's logo on it. Dad peeled it
off and I chewed him out for doing that! <G>

Let's see...

Say's Cabela's heavy duty Butcher shop and smokehouse meat grinder.
One of the package inserts says PragoTrade.

Thanks!

Quoted message said:

It's model # 33-0101

Seems it is a proprietary unit marketed for Cabela's.

It must have been a close out sale.... which one looks similar to you?
http://tinyurl.com/2s4vcl but it looks like you got quite a deal!
Let me know if you ever stumble onto another deal like that. 🙂

Quoted message said:

As for how do I like it??? I LOVE it!

OK, thanks... I see Cabela's is just online for California.

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Sheldon said:

Omelet said:

Sheldon said:

Omelet wrote:

Quoted message said:

> > But the real guage of a home grinder is how many pounds and inches
> > yours can handle... I bet yours has a PPI rating marked right on it!
> > hehe

Quoted message said:

> > Sheldon

Quoted message said:

> That's MY biziness!

Quoted message said:

It's to your sausage biziness that I was referring. hehe

Mmmmm...

Sausage!

http://i12.tinypic.com/2ai2352.jpg

From my home made series the first time I used the new grinder. ;-D

Those are lewd! ;-D

Thanks!

If you want the whole series...

Quoted message said:

For fresh pork sausage I tend towards making patties, much easier to
prepare and they cook up crispy... but I get your point... you like
boy sausage like how I like girl sausage.

Sheldon

<giggles>

Yeah, I know I could just freeze it in patties, but stuffing is FUN.

<smirk>

It was actually 1/2 pork and 1/2 turkey breast.
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In article said:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:00:58 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The grinder? Ok, you are making me get up to read the box and stuff. I
bought it at Cabela's and it had the Cabela's logo on it. Dad peeled it
off and I chewed him out for doing that! <G>

Let's see...

Say's Cabela's heavy duty Butcher shop and smokehouse meat grinder.
One of the package inserts says PragoTrade.

Thanks!

No problemo!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's model # 33-0101

Seems it is a proprietary unit marketed for Cabela's.

It must have been a close out sale.... which one looks similar to you?

Answered via e-mail.

Quoted message said:

http://tinyurl.com/2s4vcl but it looks like you got quite a deal!

I did. :-) It was a Black Friday sale, probably slated to drag people
into the store to shop for LOTS of Christmas presents.

Quoted message said:

Let me know if you ever stumble onto another deal like that. 🙂

Will do!
Thing is, the newspaper ad only comes out one day before and since I
don't have a subscription, I got lucky and chanced across the ad at work
from a discarded newspaper!

It was fortuitous.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

As for how do I like it??? I LOVE it!

OK, thanks... I see Cabela's is just online for California.

Bummer. :-(
Shipping can negate some savings sometimes, depending on how great they
are.
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Omelet said:

In article said:

On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:00:58 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

The grinder? Ok, you are making me get up to read the box and stuff. I
bought it at Cabela's and it had the Cabela's logo on it. Dad peeled it
off and I chewed him out for doing that! <G>

Let's see...

Say's Cabela's heavy duty Butcher shop and smokehouse meat grinder.
One of the package inserts says PragoTrade.

Thanks!

No problemo!

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

It's model # 33-0101

Seems it is a proprietary unit marketed for Cabela's.

It must have been a close out sale.... which one looks similar to you?

Answered via e-mail.

Quoted message said:

http://tinyurl.com/2s4vcl but it looks like you got quite a deal!

I did. :-) It was a Black Friday sale, probably slated to drag people
into the store to shop for LOTS of Christmas presents.

Quoted message said:

Let me know if you ever stumble onto another deal like that. 🙂

Will do!
Thing is, the newspaper ad only comes out one day before and since I
don't have a subscription, I got lucky and chanced across the ad at work
from a discarded newspaper!

It was fortuitous.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

As for how do I like it??? I LOVE it!

OK, thanks... I see Cabela's is just online for California.

Bummer. :-(
Shipping can negate some savings sometimes, depending on how great they
are.

Cabela's has very reasonable shipping rates, and first class customer
service.

Bob

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zxcvbob said:

Quoted message said:

Shipping can negate some savings sometimes, depending on how great they
are.

Cabela's has very reasonable shipping rates, and first class customer
service.

Bob

Oh I SO agree with the customer service thing based on personal
experience on returns!

Didn't know about shipping rates as they are less than 20 miles away
here.

The store is awesome. I'm putting together a virtual tour of their
store. I need another photography session there...

Right now I only have a bunch of the taxidermy stuff, and some good
shots of the aquarium.

At the very least I need shots of their food court to keep it on topic.
<G>
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MOMPEAGRAM said:

So, you've ground your own beef. What do you add after to make the
burgers? Do you add an egg? What seasonings? Bread crumbs?

i especially like to add a splash of garlic infused bourbon, the
cheaper the better, and not the bitter tasting charcoal filtered ones.
also very good on steaks. also good w/o the garlic.
burpee.

burpee said:

i especially like to add a splash of garlic infused bourbon....

No wonder you call yourself burpee! 😉

nb

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:03:53 -0500, Omelet <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

kilikini said:

Omelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
"kilikini" <[email hidden]> wrote:

I have some Mirin in the 'frige, but have not experimented much with
it yet. I'm also nearly out of mushroom soy sauce.

Lee Kum Kee? That's the dark mushroom soy we buy and it's excellent!

kili

I'll have to check that.
I use a LOT of shoyu so get it at the Asian market in 1 qt. containers.

Don't recall the brand at the moment. I tend to try different ones as
they have a lot of choices.

Thanks for the recommend!

I'm going to jump in here and ditto what kili says. The mushroom soy
is great. I hope you try it.

Koko
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

So, you've ground your own beef. What do you add after to make the
burgers? Do you add an egg? What seasonings? Bread crumbs?

That is meatloaf ingredients. Hamburgers are best wiht pure beef. Salt,
pepper, ketchup after it is cooked, cheese optional.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Lee Kum Kee? That's the dark mushroom soy we buy and it's excellent!

kili

I'll have to check that.
I use a LOT of shoyu so get it at the Asian market in 1 qt. containers.

Don't recall the brand at the moment. I tend to try different ones as
they have a lot of choices.

Thanks for the recommend!

I'm going to jump in here and ditto what kili says. The mushroom soy
is great. I hope you try it.

Koko

Thanks!

Now I may not have to drive to Austin... :-)
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