An experience in grinding my own hamburger meat

An experience in grinding my own hamburger meat

8 June, 2009 || Meats, Tweet

So I wanted to write an article about grinding my own hamburger meat, I wanted to tell everyone you can save money doing this, the meat quality is better, and it is easy to do.  My experience fell short in some areas on this.  Now, in our economy I am always looking for creative ways to save on my grocery bill without having to sacrifice anything. In fact I take great pleasure in trying to hone my skills at creating recipes that are less expensive, and taste just as good if not better than their restaurant counterparts.  I must say I did accomplish my first goal, I purchased about 10 pounds of chuck roast for 1.97 a pound or so.  Ground chuck was running around 2.59 a pound.  My first goal was achieved, I had about a 20% savings pound for pound.  I also had to somehow justify purchasing my grinder attachment for my mixer.

I spent about the next 2 hours or so, cutting the meat into smaller pieces and loading up my grinder, to where from my amazement, ground meat came out.  Ah, yes, beautiful ground chuck was going into my bowl, and then everywhere else.  Ground meat ended up on the floor, my dog did not complain, but it also made it all over the counters, the refrigerator, and in many places after a good cleaning I am sure will soon let me know what that lovely scent meat has after being left out for a few days.  I attempted to regrind my meat again, one of my best friends made some Swedish meatballs over the Christmas holidays that were to die for, and she thought part of this was due to the multiple grindings her meat underwent.  Upon the next grinding I had to apart my grinder and clean it out several times because stringy bits were getting caught in my grinder.

Now, after getting the meat ground, I did make some burgers and they were fantastic.  The meat was  so nice and fresh.  Being a single person, and now what to do with nine more pounds meat.  So it is going to be vacuum packed as soon as I post this and placed in my freezer.  Did the meat taste better? Yes.  Do I think that it was better quality than what I would buy in the grocery store, most likely.  I just found the cleaning up process to be a lot more involved than what I signed on for.  Now if I had someone to split some of the labor with, and then package up the meat I would do it again in a heartbeat.  At the very least I will be moving the grinder to a place where it will make a less of a mess.

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5 Responses to “An experience in grinding my own hamburger meat”
  • An experience in grinding my own hamburger meat | CopyKat Recipes - All type of RECIPES!.. says:
    June 9, 2009 at 5:10 am

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  • Sam says:
    July 7, 2009 at 5:16 am

    Try placing a plastic bag directly over the grinding plate, any splatters will be caught in the bag and all of your meat will be ready for storage.

  • Kellie says:
    August 25, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    It sounds like your grinder might not be the best. I use a HUGE bowl under the shoot and put my grinder in the middle of my kitchen island and have little trouble with real mess, unless I don’t clean the parts right away. The key is to toss all the detachable parts in hot soapy water laced with a little bleach (just a little) for a few minutes right after the grinding then scrub the parts under hot water with a tooth brush, then I run them through the dishwaser.

    I have found that I can make extra lean ground meat SO much cheaper and much more lean than what is in the meat case. I buy EXTRA lean sirloins, of either beef or pork, or the skinned breast and thighs from a chicken. I can trim ALL the visible fat. I can make my own sausage and know exactly what is in it AND how much fat.

    I can even make homemade pet food that is human grade quality and spend a fraction of what it cost me at the pet store.

    For me there was no downside, but time and energy were involved. You must be meticulous on cleaning the grinder, and you have to be somewhat organized, having all the meat cut and trimmed and ready grind in one sitting, that way you are not moving back and forth getting meat all over.

    I am sorry this did not work so well for you, but working with another person would help. I have done this a few times with my pet food making since I just have one little cat and it really helps.

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  • Orion says:
    November 1, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    I simply bring the meat to the butcher in the meat department they will usually grind it for you no charge!!

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