MEAT! #8 Commercial Meat Grinder .5 HP

Substantial castings and machined components with excellent post finishing- big upgrade over typical sportsmen's grinders out there. Auger has a real machined spline versus a couple flats, hopper not a cheap stamping. Variable design grinds as fast as I can feed it, self clears to the end of the batch. Only surprise was when I went to use it in my cold shop (I prefer processing in the cold) kept tripping breaker. Turns out the gear oil needed to be more room temperature which added a few hours to the day. (Manual correctly pointed this out). Maybe a Multi-viscosity gear oil going forward?

Coming from using a Kitchenaid grinder attachment, this #8 grinder is night and day. The Kitchenaid mixer is a great mixer but not so well as a grinder/stuffer. Doing a little research, the Meat! grinder seems to be one of the best values out there. No issues unboxing, cleaning and using the grinder. The unit grinds faster than I can put meat in the chute. The efficiency of the grinder makes the grinding process stress free. The grinder did not have any problem grinding almost frozen meat. The only thing that would be nice is if the stuffer tubes included with the grinder would fit my Meat! 5# stuffer. Since I have their stuffer, I will probably never use the grinder to stuff sausage.