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recommendation for meat grinder

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:23:51 -0500, Brooklyn1 wrote:


i guess you *didn't* read your own cite:

In order to prepare catgut, the intestines are cleaned, freed from fat, and
steeped for some time in water. After that, the external membrane is
scraped off with a blunt knife. The intestines are then once again steeped
for some time, in an alkaline lye, and then smoothed and equalized by
drawing out.

so, wrong again. but no one is surprised by that.

blake

recommendation for meat grinder

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:48:52 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
wrote:


Sinew, tendon, ligament, all the same thing. However when you grind
your own meat you can cut that tough stringy connective tissue away,
the butcher grinds that in... actually what they do is first trim it
out, grind it, and then add it back to the batch and grind it again so
it's not noticable... all that scrap adds weight... it's perfectly
legal. When you buy preground mystery meat guess what much of it is
composed of... you're lucky if only tough connective tissue. When I
prep a bunch of large cuts for grinding I trim out as much of the
connective tissue as I can find, especially the silver skin. All
together it's like 10% of the meat. I toss that out for the critters,
the crows attack it with gusto.

recommendation for meat grinder

In article ,
notbob wrote:


Understood. And I wouldn't change a thing. I've never used a Linux OS,
though Mac's OS is essentially a Linux app, I think. I have used
Windoze and I don't much care for it. And if I had a valid email
address for you I wouldn't have posted this; I'd've emailed it. :-)

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Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:17:24 -0800, sf wrote:


I have just taken it out of the box, but won't put it through its
paces until the weekend.

I got the lift bowl and it is a good 4.5" higher than the Kenwood.
Dunno where in hell I am going to keep it now.....

Boron

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On Jan 31, 6:21?pm, Mark Thorson wrote:

Hi,
What I did many years ago buy a manual big grinder ( the cheap
aluminiym of$20 bucks, buy a " fly wheel "
connect it via a v belt to an electro motor, 500 lbs an hours easy...
but you will have to work a bit to put the
hole thing up on wooden blocks, belts and engine

Henk

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Re: [email protected]

Mark Thorson wrote:


Resurrecting here, I saw an episode of Iron Chef the other day, in the
Mexican Chocolate episode IIRC, where meat was being ground with a KA
attachment.

MartyB

recommendation for meat grinder

Pete C. wrote:

And back to what it is... pork butt. Once you start having to trim to that
extent, given its multitude of different muscles and connective tissue,
might as well cube it up. When it's working well it make a nice crisp sort
of popping sound as the meat goes through. I've learned to go by the sound
to know if it's cut up properly and when to add meat.

recommendation for meat grinder

Melba's Jammin' wrote:

That's because I live in the future to avoid that
really awful . . . oh, I'm not supposed to tell you
about it. You'll know soon enough.

recommendation for meat grinder

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:01:05 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


I did use one. I particularly didn't like the very light heft. And I
found it didn't slice better than a decent metal knife, my every day
knives cut better and handle better... I often flick the blade at the
end of a cut to separate slices and use the blade to transfer food...
the brittleness of the thin ceramic was always on my mind, and
especially with crusty foods, so I didn't feel comfortable as I do
with my regular knives that become an extenion of my hand... using the
ceramic knife handicapped me, felt like I had to use the same caution
as when hand washing delicate stemware... with ordinary knives I don't
have to think about it. I got that knife as a gift from a bank for
opening a checking account. I gave it to my daughter, she included it
in her travel trailer kitchenware, found out later she dropped it and
it broke. Did you look at the expressions on the faces of those women
on the Yoshi blade ad, they all look lobotomized/drugged.

recommendation for meat grinder

notbob wrote:

I'm wondering if this applies to ceramic knives.
I got one for Christmas, but haven't used it yet.