Meat Grinders

[AlanB]

Not sure where you are at Jerry, or if you just want to do it for the pleasure of having done it yourself, but we are paying about $60-$100 a deer to get them processed up, summer sausage, breakfast sausage, smoked links etc made up. Depends how much cooking and the weight for the price.

I offered to set my buddy up last year with the grinders, the saw and all to do what he and my son shot, he would just rather pay and be back out in the woods.

They are on their way to drop off the 6 point Dean got in the backyard this afternoon, I think it is all about to become summer sausage.

Good luck whichever way you go, Rural king had a big selection of that stuff, and the bandaw, and stainless table etc. etc. last time I was in there (last week) For me at least, I like being able to touch and feel the things prior to buying them.

Oh and in the FWIW category, I cannot concieve of doing them by hand.

 

[Highbeam]

I just yesterday used the kitchenaide attachment to double grind just under 50 lbs of deer meat. I have ground beef in it ibefore in 10 lb jobs but never 50. It worked extremely well. No issues. I added pork fat and it went right through just fine. For prep on the deer meat I removed all easily removed pieces of fat and other non-meat debris since I want the meat to be less gamey. I generally cut the meat into tubes of a diameter less than the throat of the grinder or smaller. I never realized how much meat was in the butt. Saved myself 85$ and I know that the meat in my freezer was the deer I shot.

The only complaint or should I say item of concern is that you stand in front of the grinder so as meat is being ground you will get a belly covered in squirted blood and meat.

 

[Bird]

you will get a belly covered in squirted blood and meat

The reason the pros wear aprons, huh? I hadn't thought about that in a long time, but my mother (and most, if not all, of the other women in the family) always wore an apron in the kitchen. And I don't think we even have an apron in our house now.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Not sure where you are at Jerry, or if you just want to do it for the pleasure of having done it yourself, but we are paying about $60-$100 a deer to get them processed up, summer sausage, breakfast sausage, smoked links etc made up. Depends how much cooking and the weight for the price.

I offered to set my buddy up last year with the grinders, the saw and all to do what he and my son shot, he would just rather pay and be back out in the woods.

They are on their way to drop off the 6 point Dean got in the backyard this afternoon, I think it is all about to become summer sausage.

Good luck whichever way you go, Rural king had a big selection of that stuff, and the bandaw, and stainless table etc. etc. last time I was in there (last week) For me at least, I like being able to touch and feel the things prior to buying them.

Oh and in the FWIW category, I cannot concieve of doing them by hand.

We give away most of the deer we shoot. There is a guy in the area that will take and utilize any deer we give him. That is very handy since my wife doesn't like deer meat (at least she thinks she doesn't), and we don't eat much ourselves. I plan on taking a doe later this season and making summer sausage. That will probably be the only deer I will process myself so I don't need a powerful or high capacity grinder. I'm mostly just doing it for the fun of it. I found a sausage recipe on the internet that I want to try. I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[reb]

If you are not in a hurry you might find a used one from a butcher. I bought an old grinder with an honest 2 horsepower motor for about $100 a few years ago. It is large (about 2 1/2' x 1', and about 2 1/2' high on a stand), so storage is a consideration. It will go through a deer in less time than it takes to clean up afterwards.

 

[AlanB]

We give away most of the deer we shoot. There is a guy in the area that will take and utilize any deer we give him. That is very handy since my wife doesn't like deer meat (at least she thinks she doesn't), and we don't eat much ourselves. I plan on taking a doe later this season and making summer sausage. That will probably be the only deer I will process myself so I don't need a powerful or high capacity grinder. I'm mostly just doing it for the fun of it. I found a sausage recipe on the internet that I want to try. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Let me KNOW

Need to get you and mike B44 up here to Clarksville and we will have a Venison sampling. Bring the better half and I will get Hanna to make her famous venison stew. More folks that "cannot stand deer meat" absolutely love that stew (but we usually change the name )

In all seriousness we should do something along those lines, or down there in the Nashville area and we could haul some in.

 

[Bird]

I haven't had any venison myself in a long time now. I had a sister who used to work for a wealthy fellow who went hunting every year, shot deer every year, even had them processed and packaged, then gave it all to my sister because he and his wife didn't eat it. And my sister occasionally gave me some of it. It's hard for me to imagine why anyone would not want it to eat.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Let me KNOW

Need to get you and mike B44 up here to Clarksville and we will have a Venison sampling. Bring the better half and I will get Hanna to make her famous venison stew. More folks that "cannot stand deer meat" absolutely love that stew (but we usually change the name )

In all seriousness we should do something along those lines, or down there in the Nashville area and we could haul some in.

We'll have to do that Alan. My farm isn't too far from Clarksville. After deer season is over maybe you and Hanna can visit and she can make bring some of that famous stew and fool my wife. I'd like to prove to her that deer meat prepared properly is a delicacy.

 

[AlanB]

Just let me know when.

 

[czechsonofagun]

+1 for the Kitchen Aid attachment. Worked like charm for me and it cleans easily too.

And yes, the apron is necessery too