On Jun 11, 1:10*pm, Janet Wilder > wrote:
> Last night I was making a baklava and thought I'd grind up the
> store-chopped nuts in the meat grinder attachment of the KA Artisan. It
> stopped dead. No turning, just motor groaning. I shut it off and tried
> to open the ring on the front of the grinder attachment but it was stuck
> like it had been glued there.
>
> I kept running water through it and finally, DH, with the aid of one of
> those rubber gripper jar openers was able to get the ring loose. *What I
> found inside was a form of concrete that was made from the nuts and nut
> oil solidifying into a cement.
>
> Got out the Cuisinart and did my chopping there.
>
> Moral of the story: *Don't put your nuts in the meat grinder.

<suppressing emasculation anxieties> Tonight I ground a nice chuck
steak tonight into four nice burgers. I just got one of those rubber
things as a freebie at the checkout the other day. It'll come in
handy for my wife who has little arm strength, but we both know how to
spank the jar. Now get your mind outta the gutter. We both know what
I mean.
> --
> Janet Wilder
> Way-the-heck-south Texas
> Spelling doesn't count. *Cooking does.

--Bryan