I am interested in buying a meat grinder for making burger out of some of my deer kills. I have always steaked the deer for the most part with a bit taken to someone else to grind it but now want to do my own grinding.I love deer chili !
Can I get a decent one for $150.00 or less ? Will be using for 2 or 3 deer a year.
The grinding attachment on a kitchen aid will work for small batches like your talking about. Also I just saw an Lem #8 at sportsmans warehouse in that PRIc e range.
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The grinding attachment on a kitchen aid will work for small batches like your talking about. Also I just saw an Lem #8 at sportsmans warehouse in that PRIc e range.
This. We've ground a moose, 6 caribou, and 4 deer in the last three years with my wife's mixer and the grinder attachment.
In the past I've used the hand crank cast iron type as well as several stand alone tabletop electric units and the KitchenAid kicks their ass. I keep the blade sharp with the surface grinder at work but they can be stoned if you don't have a grinder at your disposal. Keep it sharp and it will chew trough an amazing amount of trimmings in a pretty short time.
The $60 special from WalMart has not broken yet for us, and we've probably ground about 15 deer/antelope with it.
Same here. I bought 2 on clearance for $30 each about 8 years ago. The "spare" is still in the box. Mine looks very similar to this one. Check out the reviews.
That's the one to try on the cheap. Mine worked good till I over did it with a hunk of too frozen buck and it blew out the plastic gearing. Next, got a LEM #8 Big Bite and very happy with it for about $260 on sale. Just sucks the meat right in. Of course a #12 would be even better but that little Weston-branded unit gets it done.
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Only thing I can say is do not buy a grinder with plastic gears, get a grinder with metal ones. Had an Outdoor Edge, 3 deer and bang.. Not worth trying to fix it. Bought a LEM no issues 8 deer and counting. Basically you get what you pay for.
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I am interested in buying a meat grinder for making burger out of some of my deer kills. I have always steaked the deer for the most part with a bit taken to someone else to grind it but now want to do my own grinding.I love deer chili !
Can I get a decent one for $150.00 or less ? Will be using for 2 or 3 deer a year.
Thanks Craig
I was in the same place a couple of years ago. I ended up the 1/2 hp Cabelas commercial model #8. Got it on sale and an with a discount... No regrets, it will really grind meat. One thing I notice on some of the cheaper units is that they used plastic or composite gears, that turned me off.
Buy once cry once...
good luck,
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The cheap grinders, like the $60 Walmart, will work a long time on 2 deer a year. They'll be slower than bigger grinders, but so what? It's not like you'll be grinding tons of burger.
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I don't find the kitchen aid to be hatefully slow. It surely isn't as fast as a decent dedicated unit, but if the meat is firm, preferably with a few ice crystal in it, it grinds fairly fast. Edit to add: the sausage stuffer IS painfully slow. I'm looking at a dedicated stuffing unit for Christmas.
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I used the inexpensive wal mart one for 5 years and 13 deer. plastic gear gave out, I picked up another on amazon for $50. 4 deer so far on that one. Processing one deer pays for itself. Ill continue with what has worked so far.
