All Topics  
Meat grinder

 
Meat Grinder

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Meat grinder
 
 
  Topics Meat grinder Topic Home

A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen
Kitchen

A kitchen, is a room or part of a room used for food preparation including cooking, and sometimes also for eating and entertaining guests, if the kitchen is large enough and designed to be used that way....
 appliance
Appliance

Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow Function :* Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input.** Small appliances...
 for grinding, fine mincing or mixing raw or cooked meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
, fish
Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, vegetable
Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
s or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which has been used to produce minced meat, filling etc. The producer puts the minced food into a funnel, which is placed on the top of the grinder.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Meat grinder'
Start a new discussion about 'Meat grinder'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Fleischwolf Zerlegt
A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen
Kitchen

A kitchen, is a room or part of a room used for food preparation including cooking, and sometimes also for eating and entertaining guests, if the kitchen is large enough and designed to be used that way....
 appliance
Appliance

Appliance may refer to a device with a narrow Function :* Home appliance, household machines, using electricity or some other energy input.** Small appliances...
 for grinding, fine mincing or mixing raw or cooked meat
Meat

In modern English usage, meat most often refers to animal biological tissue used as food, mostly skeletal muscle and associated fat, but it may also refer to offal, including livers, skin, brains, bone marrow, kidneys, in some countries lungs, and a variety of other internal organs as well as blood....
, fish
Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, vegetable
Vegetable

The term "vegetable" generally means the Eating parts of plants. The definition of the word is traditional rather than scientific, however, and therefore the usage of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective, as it is determined by individual cultural customs of food selection and food preparation....
s or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which has been used to produce minced meat, filling etc. The producer puts the minced food into a funnel, which is placed on the top of the grinder. From there the material goes on a horizontal screw conveyor. This screw conveyor, that can be powered by a hand wheel or an electric motor, squashes and partially mixes the food. At the end of the screw conveyor there is a knife installed directly in front of the fixed hole plate. At this opening the minced meat comes out of the machine. The fineness of the meat depends on the size of the holes of the plate.

By changing the hole plate it is also possible to produce breadcrumbs or fill sausages. After the drop from the retainer, it is possible to change the hole plate. By removing the fixing screw the grinder can be disassembled completely for cleaning. Besides the domestic manually or motor operated grinders, there are also grinders for butchery (table- or shop-grinders for example) and for the food industry. Some large machines are able to produce several tons per hour.

For these machines the Typ-C-norm DIN EN 12331 "machines for the food industry - butchery grinders - safety- and hygiene requirements" from 2004-5 with the change from 2007-A2, is applied.

Mixer unit

A basic optional feature for larger grinders is the mixer unit. With this unit can be mixed different kinds of meat(for example beef or pork) with each other homogeneously and/or can be mixed the meat with additives, like salt or spices, before grinding it. Without such a mixer unit, the additives must be mixed into the meat after grinding it, which adversely affects the taste and appearance of most products.

Frozen meat grinder


Frozen meat grinders can process frozen blocks of meat, bacon and MDM up to –25 °C. The frozen blocks can range from 90x50x15 cm to 90x50x20 cm, and the power can applies from 8.000 kg to 12.000 kg. By the regular cutting the chopped meat can be processed through mixers and grinders, which reach an optimal addition in the cutter as well as a protection of the cutter and knifes.

There are 2 different drive forms, a single rev-drive, which is ideal to grind frozen meat blocks, and a two rev-drive, which promises higher power by the application of a special meat worm.

The first cut takes place in the worm, who peels with his long pulled, sharpen meander/bend approximately 8 cm from the frozen meat and then to pass on for the next cut in the cutting set . The lock protection prevents possible mechanical damages in too high burden/load, for example by a foreign body.

See also

  • Ground beef
    Ground beef

    Ground beef, beef mince or hamburger meat , or mince meat is a ground meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder....


External links

  • Information on using and maintaining meat grinders.