Maverick MM-5501 Mince Master 575-Watt Meat Grinder, White

This Machine Works Fine, However......
you have to know how to use it, in addition to understanding how to grind meat on a less than professional meat grinder. Those of you who have written terrible reviews on this product, do not know how to properly grind meat on low cost machines and you came in with expectations too high. I assure you if you simply shove hunks of meat in this machine any old way and expect it to grind, it will not. It might even clog and break.

A $1500 professional meat grinder will almost grind any meat you feed into it without worry. Home use grinders do not. That is why they are a fraction of the cost. You must have reasonable expectations, and in the end, befriending a local butcher who will custom grind your meat might be the best option for you.

Here are some rules to grinding beef on this grinder, as well as most other home use grinders.

1) Make sure you trim the filmy connective tissue off your cuts of meat. If you don't, they will wrap around the grinding...

Total piece of junk!
This was a BIG mistake! The grinder is very cheaply made, and I mean VERY.. I got things all ready to grind some meat, turned it on and it spit out 5 or 6 meat grindings and then made a horrible noise. I quickly turned it off, and took the grinder apart. Meat was wrapped around the screw (the one that turns to push the meat out, which had to be cut off very slowly with a knife and pair of scissors. After finishing that long task, I saw at the end of the grinder screw that the plastic nut was cracked in 4 places(which explains why I had plastic chunks in the few strands of meat that did come out). It hadn't been cracked when I put the grinder together. I had a huge mess to clean up, not to mention all the aggravation I went through with [...]. I absolutely DO NOT recommend this product. [...]

no problems
i have owned this grinder for 1 1/2 years. i grind whole chicken up with no issue for my dogs. all chicken bones have gone thru with no problem. you need to have REALLY cold meat and cut it up to appropriate sizes. i just got thru grinding 6 split breasts and 8 - 10 thighs with no issues. i ground up frozen green beans along with the chicken and that was no problem either. i take all the skin off so if you tried grinding that i have no idea what would happen.

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