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Hoss
Hoss Posts: 14,600
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Buy a grinder from Harbor Freight on sale.BTW anyone have one of these?
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I have only used the KA grinder with a coarse die and double ground the meat.These are way bigger than the KA dies.It came with 3 Coarse medium and fine.Any tips appreciated.

Comments

  • Richard Fl
    Richard Fl Posts: 8,297
    Save the fine for LONEY. I have a KA 600 Pro and have yet to use the grinder.
    My neighbor just placed 125# venison from 3 doe and 1 buck that he processed today. Handed me 7#'s ground and said next week chili. Any ideas for venison chili?
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    the kitchen aid coarse is too small to double grind, the fine kitchen aid is worthless unless maybe making loney? :laugh: those coarser blades are better for things like chourico, chorizzo etc and i like things like chili with a real coarse grind, should work fine
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    u r SUCH an enabler!!! :laugh:

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    Use it just like ground beef in your favorite chilli recipe. ;)
  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    Thanks! BTW,I WILL be makin 'Loney! :laugh: :P
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    how do they make it, im thinking start the cook in a cold water slurry and keep smashing as it slowly heats up
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Well,

    You may not want to know this but you start with feet, bladders, pancreases, kidneys, brains, whatever they scrape off the head and all kinds of other stuff that they can't legally put in dog food. They cook it in real hot kettles and put binders and a bunch of chemicals to prevent any bad reactions. Then they extrude it in to plastic casings and let it solidify. It is soooo good! :whistle:

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    YUM...YUM!!! 'Loney,it's what's for DINNER!!! :P :laugh:
  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    Be patient.I'll show you in the steps to follow. ;):)
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    sounds good, might even smell good :laugh: i used to do some work in a jello plant, believe me, it dont look or smell so good, stuff would be oozing green, dripping out of the dump trucks, probably coming from the loney plant :laugh: dumped on the hot pavement for days, then wallah, green red and yellow jello :woohoo:
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    cool, make some hickory smoked Tabasco loney :) always wondered why they dont have flavored loneys, seems like a given :laugh:
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    We used to do palletizers, depalletizers, bottleing lines and conveying systems for the food industry. I stopped eating everything that I saw made. I won't eat chocolate cause I worked at a plant one summer. Canned soup..no. canned ham, spam, cocktail sausage..no. Funny thing though, I worked at all the breweries...yesss!

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    You ain't right!

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    I would think so too. :whistle: They have flavored vienna sausage,oil sausage,sardines.I might make Tobassco and cheese 'Loney. :laugh:
  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    Now THAT IS funny! :laugh:
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Hoss, I have some stories about the beer places. Next time we get together eh.

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    its all good again if you ever worked in a rendering plant :laugh: would rather eat a dead raccoon i drove by in august for 5 days than even enter that plant again. oh what a stench
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    ;) I've heard that before.....somewhere. :laugh:
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    Man,

    I worked in dog food/rendering for most of my apprenticeship. They would send us from there into an office building and the looks we got were nasty. :laugh: Did hides and skins too :sick: The kill floors at packing companies for both cattle and hog. The poultry packers were the worst in midsummer. I used to strip on the back deck year round cause the smells never came out of the work clothes ;)

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    one friday i went to the bank to cash my check, maybe 50 inline, they all stepped aside and let me go first :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: this rendering plant wasnt making food grade.
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    I was working at the packing company many years ago doing the automation on a packaging line. We needed to put sensors on the real old rotary canners. The sh!t was spraying us all day long and I had an apprentice that was bichin his brains out about the goo. After work one day I stopped at the rendering company I used to work at to say hi to the boys. He puked his guts out and on the ride back to the shop I told him in a gentle sort of way that I wasn't terribly interested in listening to his whining B)

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,895
    my dog in the middle of no where, northern maine found a dead bear, tore of a big section of rotten hide and ran around wearing it like he was underdog, didnt smell so bad :laugh: :laugh: :ermm: :laugh: :laugh: lake was just above 32 f, was not good
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
  • I have had one for 2 years and love it.
  • Hoss
    Hoss Posts: 14,600
    What plate do you usually use for grinding burger and sausage?
  • you guys need to contact" mike row from dirty jobs!!!!".... you'll be heroes.... lol... rr
  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    Hoss, I need the model # please.
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
    Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
    LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE