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Cabela grinders

theeggcellentchef
theeggcellentchef Posts: 138
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My kitchen aid grinder attachment recently cracked and I stumbled across the cabela deluxe and heavy duty meat grinder. Was wondering if either of those cabela options is a worthy upgrade. 

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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,989
    I don’t know anything about their “attachment” grinders. But their Carnivore series grinders are impressive. I have a friend that has one. It is awesome. He has the 1 3/4 hp model. 

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  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    I have a Cabela's 1hp grinder and it's seriously heavy duty. It'll plow through a 100lbs of venison faster than you can feed it. I love it.

    That said, it's extremely heavy and kind of a pain to clean, so don't get one unless you plan to use often or need to process large amounts. If you're grinding anything under 10lbs stick with the KitchenAid. 

    https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cabelas-commercial-grade-1hp-carnivore-meat-grinder
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  • theeggcellentchef
    theeggcellentchef Posts: 138
    I’m in that no mans land. About 20 lbs
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  • CornfedMA
    CornfedMA Posts: 491
    The Cabelas grinders pre-Bass Pro were fantastic. Heavy duty, almost all stainless. I’m sure the Carnivore grinders are good but I was disappointed to see them go away from mostly stainless construction. I’m getting ready to buy and think I’m going to go with a Weston or LEM. I’ve used both to process elk and mule deer in the past and they’ve left me thoroughly impressed. 
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  • kdink
    kdink Posts: 336
    If you have costco membership you can get the Weston 1 hp model 
    33-1301-W for $140.00 delivered. 
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  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    CornfedMA said:
    The Cabelas grinders pre-Bass Pro were fantastic. Heavy duty, almost all stainless. I’m sure the Carnivore grinders are good but I was disappointed to see them go away from mostly stainless construction. I’m getting ready to buy and think I’m going to go with a Weston or LEM. I’ve used both to process elk and mule deer in the past and they’ve left me thoroughly impressed. 

    I have the original stainless model, but I’ve looked at the new ones up close and they seem to be just as well-made except for powder coated steel instead of stainless.
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  • theeggcellentchef
    theeggcellentchef Posts: 138
    I got the deluxe one for 139 and it blew threw two passes of 22 lb mixture of brisket short rib and chuck. My only prior experience being a kitchen aid attachment, the cabela grinder blew me away. 
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  • Runamuck
    Runamuck Posts: 38
    Any of them would be a big improvement over the Kitchen Aid. I was afraid I was going to burn my mixer up, so I bought an old cast iron 100# unit. Loved how it worked, but wanted something newer that could accept attachments. I would go with a #12 if you can swing it, they are much heavier duty than the smaller ones. I went with an LEM, as they make a really nice unit. Thought I'd go a little bigger, so wanted a #22. Couldn't get my hands on a 22, so went with a 32! This one is stupid big and unnecessary. You could just trip the cow and push her right in there! Wish I had gotten a 12 or 22, as I doubt I'll ever need to grind 17 lbs per min.
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,137
    Runamuck said:
    Any of them would be a big improvement over the Kitchen Aid. I was afraid I was going to burn my mixer up, so I bought an old cast iron 100# unit. Loved how it worked, but wanted something newer that could accept attachments. I would go with a #12 if you can swing it, they are much heavier duty than the smaller ones. I went with an LEM, as they make a really nice unit. Thought I'd go a little bigger, so wanted a #22. Couldn't get my hands on a 22, so went with a 32! This one is stupid big and unnecessary. You could just trip the cow and push her right in there! Wish I had gotten a 12 or 22, as I doubt I'll ever need to grind 17 lbs per min.
    Agree.
    I went with the LEM 3/4hp #12 and it's almost over kill. It will grind brisket like it was butter. The only reason I went this large was to have the power to double course grind. On the smaller grinders even the course disc is to fine of a grind to really double grind.
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • paqman
    paqman Posts: 4,923
    does stuffing sausage work well with electric grinders?

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  • SonVolt
    SonVolt Posts: 3,316
    edited March 2021
    I have a sausage stuffer attachment that works ok, but it's more clumsy than using a dedicated vertical/tower stuffer b/c you have to continuously feed your sausage mix down the hopper. With the towers you just dump it all in at once and you're off to the races.  
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