Meat grinder

Meat grinder
For other uses, see Meat grinder (disambiguation).
Disassembled hand-powered grinder

A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen appliance for grinding, fine mincing or mixing raw or cooked meat, fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which has been used to produce minced meat, filling etc. The producer puts the minced food into a funnel, which is placed on the top of the grinder. From there the material goes on a horizontal screw conveyor. This screw conveyor, that can be powered by a hand wheel or an electric motor, squashes and partially mixes the food. At the end of the screw conveyor there is a knife installed directly in front of the fixed hole plate. At this opening the minced meat comes out of the machine. The fineness of the meat depends on the size of the holes of the plate. The meat grinder was invented by Karl Drais in the 19th century.

By changing the hole plate it is also possible to produce breadcrumbs or fill sausage casing. After the drop from the retainer, it is possible to change the hole plate. By removing the fixing screw the grinder can be disassembled completely for cleaning. Besides the domestic manually or motor operated grinders, there are also grinders for butchery (table- or shop-grinders for example) and for the food industry. Some large machines are able to produce several tons per hour.

For these machines the Typ C norm DIN EN 12331 "Food processing machinery - Mincing machines - Safety and hygiene requirements" from 2004-5 with the change from 2007-A2, is applied.

Ordinary sausage making

Contents

Mixer unit

A basic optional feature for larger grinders is the mixer unit. With this unit can be mixed different kinds of meat(for example beef or pork) with each other homogeneously and/or can be mixed the meat with additives, like salt or spices, before grinding it. Without such a mixer unit, the additives must be mixed into the meat after grinding it, which adversely affects the taste and appearance of most products.

Frozen meat grinder

Frozen meat grinders can process frozen blocks of meat, bacon and mechanically separated meat up to –25 °C. The frozen blocks can range from 90x50x15 cm to 90x50x20 cm, and the power can applies from 8.000 kg to 12.000 kg. By the regular cutting the chopped meat can be processed through mixers and grinders, which reach an optimal addition in the cutter as well as a protection of the cutter and knifes.

There are 2 different drive forms, a single rev-drive, which is ideal to grind frozen meat blocks, and a two rev-drive, which promises higher power by the application of a special meat worm.

The first cut takes place in the worm, who peels with his long pulled, sharpen meander/bend approximately 8 cm from the frozen meat and then to pass on for the next cut in the cutting set . The lock protection prevents possible mechanical damages in too high burden/load, for example by a foreign body.

  • Automatic grinder AD 114

  • Feed hopper with the conveying screw of AU 200

  • AM 160-250.jpg

    Mixing grinder AM 200 with integrated hydraulic loading device

  • Mixer of AM130

  • Frozen meat grinder GW 300

See also

External links


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • meat grinder — meat grinders N COUNT A meat grinder is a machine which cuts meat into very small pieces by forcing it through very small holes. [AM] (in BRIT, use mincer) …   English dictionary

  • meat grinder — meat .grinder n AmE a machine that cuts meat into very small pieces by forcing it through small holes British Equivalent: mincer …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • meat grinder — meat ,grinder noun count AMERICAN a machine used for cutting meat into very small pieces by forcing it through small holes. British mincer …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • meat grinder — noun 1. a mill for grinding meat • Hypernyms: ↑mill, ↑grinder, ↑milling machinery 2. any action resulting in injury or destruction the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder • …   Useful english dictionary

  • Meat grinder (disambiguation) — Meat grinder may refer to: Meat grinder, a culinary tool for grinding (finely shredding into bits) meat Meat Grinder, a song by Madvillain from their album Madvillainy Meat grinder refers to an area on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima coined… …   Wikipedia

  • meat grinder — noun (C) AmE a machine that cuts meat into very small pieces by forcing it through small holes; mincer BrE …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • meat — (n.) O.E. mete food, item of food (paired with drink), from P.Gmc. *mati (Cf. O.Fris. mete, O.S. meti, O.N. matr, O.H.G. maz, Goth. mats food, M.Du., Du. metworst, Ger. Mettwurst type of sausage ), from PIE *mad i …   Etymology dictionary

  • grinder — n. (AE) a meat grinder (BE has mincing machine, mincer) * * * [ graɪndə] (AE) a meat grinder (BE has mincing machine, mincer) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • Meat Me for Lunch — Infobox Television episode Title = Meat Me for Lunch Series = Happy Tree Friends Caption = Lifty and Shifty are about to learn that crime doesn t pay Season = 1 Episode = 20 Airdate = ? Production = 119 Writer = Mark Fiorenza Warren Graff Rhode… …   Wikipedia

  • grinder — (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A chopper or pulverizer] Syn. food chopper, food processor, blender, mill, meat grinder, sausage stuffer, coffee grinder. 2. [An abrasive] Syn. grindstone, whetstone, stone; see abrasive …   English dictionary for students

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”