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Always swore by manual grinders until I borrowed a buddy's electric one
I've been telling everyone that hand grinding is the only way to get consistent pork for sausages. Last weekend at a shop in Austin I used a Hobart electric grinder for a batch of 50 pounds of shoulder and it was done in like 8 minutes. Honestly the texture was just as good if not better than my old crank setup. Has anyone else switched over after being stubborn about manual tools?
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price.jake1mo ago
... and dude that Hobart is a DIFFERENT animal entirely. I was the SAME way, had this antique #10 hand grinder my grandpa gave me, swore by it for years. Then I helped a friend do a pig processing day and he let me run his 1.5hp electric grinder. We did 80 pounds of pork shoulder in under 15 minutes and the grind was SO even. I went home and ordered a refurbished LEM electric that same week. Now I only bust out the manual for tiny batches like when I'm just doing a couple pounds for breakfast links. The speed alone changed everything for me.
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felix_coleman8723d ago
80 pounds in under 15 minutes is genuinely insane when you think about it. I've noticed this pattern everywhere lately, like how my dad used to sharpen his mower blades with a hand file for 20 minutes and now I just zip them with a bench grinder in 30 seconds. It's not even about being lazy, it's about realizing your time is worth something and the old way was just a barrier you got used to. The same thing happened with my neighbor and his snow blower, he had a little single stage for years and then tried a friend's two stage and couldn't believe he'd been freezing his butt off for that long. Once you see what a real tool can do (especially when it comes to volume like that Hobart), you can't unsee it.
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