On 7/10/2011 12:44 PM, Andy wrote:
> Janet > wrote:
>
>> The attachment for the Kitchen Aid works well for me. It's easy to
> clean
>> for this dippy old grandma. I absolutely detest the texture of meat
>> "ground" in a food processor. It's gluey and gooey.
>
>
> Janet > wrote:
>
>> The attachment for the Kitchen Aid works well for me. It's easy to
> clean
>> for this dippy old grandma. I absolutely detest the texture of meat
>> "ground" in a food processor. It's gluey and gooey.
>
>
> Janet Wilder,
>
> The user manual for the KA grinder said to grind once using the large
> hole plate then grind again using the smaller plate.
>
> I guess that's to distribute the fat a little more evenly?
>
> I tried just the large hole plate grind but as burgers, they quickly fell
> apart in the frying pan. Might be suitable for meatloaf? Certainly not
> meatballs.
>
> While cleaning it is really a non-issue, tending to the grinding process
> is, imho. Especially having to grind twice! Ugh!
>
> I do remember Jack-in-the-Box ("Gag-in-the-Bag"), a fast food restaurant,
> weighed out a specific ratio of lean and fat to grind a specific quality
> (or lack thereof) for their burger meat. My friend worked for Western
> Scale and would go around to customers every month and check and re-
> calibrate their industrial scales to maintain guaranteed weights and
> measures quality.

Andy,

I use the small holes. I don't think I've ever used the large hole
plate. I make great burgers with mine. I am certainly not so
sophisticated as to weigh fat and meat.

After all these years of cooking, I can pretty much eyeball what's going
to be a good mix of fat in the ground meat. My mom ground her own beef,
so I have been well trained. She had a Hamilton Beach electric meat
grinder. It was a motor and you could get a can opener and, I believe, a
sausage and a salad maker attachment for it as well as the grinder.

I had one that I bought at a moving sale when I was a young bride, but
it must have been sold in our own moving sale in 1996 when we moved from
the house in NJ into the RV.


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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