My opinion on the manual meat grinder

Making our own meatballs and hamburgers is an easy task. By making them at home we get a really superior flavor to those that can be bought regularly, due to the spices and seasonings that we add to our liking. If we also choose and chop the meat ourselves, the results are ten.

Miriam, author of The Winter Guest , has been using manual meat grinders for a long time, so she is talking to us today about this kitchen tool that is becoming more fashionable every day, the Kitchen Craft one.

I am quite a fan of relatively simple and traditional cooking, and if it is reminiscent of flavors of yesteryear and is made with techniques that are still perfectly valid today, even more so. That is why I admit that when I laid eyes on the manual meat grinder I saw myself preparing all kinds of preparations with minced meat and I had to bring it home.

This chopping meat at home is a matter for which I do not see a great need to spend energy other than that of the arm itself; I love manual devices if the difference in efficiency with the electric equivalent is not really great, as is the case with this chopper .

But the advantage that stands out above all else in the fact of being able to mince meat yourself at home is the absolute control you have over the ingredients you use. I don't want this to be understood as a criticism of meat that is sold in stores, but once minced meat reduces its expiration period enormously, since it presents a much greater surface area for germs to attack compared to a whole cut of meat. .

Surely you have noticed that the expiration date of packaged minced meat is less than that of a simple steak. And for that same reason it is necessary to add some type of stabilizer or additive, to avoid at least accelerated oxidation. Well, think that if we mince the meat at home we also save these additives.

This manual mincer is made of iron and weighs its own, but precisely for that reason it is sufficiently stable when using it. Attaches to any table with a clamp, such as pasta machines or vises. It comes equipped with three grinding discs of different sizes, to grind meat into different sizes, as well as having an accessory for sausages.

As the chopper is a fairly simple device in its construction, it is relatively easy to clean. We cannot forget that it is from Kitchen Craft , a brand of kitchen utensils that are always very practical and affordable.

Mincing meat in your own home allows you to prepare all kinds of unconventional meat combinations. I still have to prepare a good French-style liver terrine. And the manual mincer is great if we want to venture to prepare some type of sausage as it was done in many houses and continues to be done in many towns. This is a subject that I still have pending. One of many.

A manual meat grinder is really a fairly modest-sized device that fits almost anywhere and allows you to prepare a wide variety of dishes with all kinds of minced meat. Can you imagine chopping your own meat for hamburgers at the moment? Or the meat to make some championship meatballs? On the blog we have some exquisite Persian kebabs made with this mincer that I encourage you to try.

Mincing the meat at home we can also add all kinds of spices and condiments to give it our most personal touch. In short, if you like cooking and want to surprise your guests with new flavors, this manual mincer would come in handy.