Kitchen Basics 3 N 1 Manual Meat and Vegetable Grinder Mincer, 3 Size Sausage Stuffer, Pasta Maker Bowl Inluded

This is a really good beginner meatgrinder. I'd never used or had one (my mother had a metal one when I was growing up and used it clamped to the table--it was a vice variety), but I knew that I wanted to make lean sausage and ground meat. Opening it up, it looked really cheap, but as I started playing with it and used the lever to suction it to my freezer top (that's my general work area, though you can use any smooth surface that the suction will cup onto), I was satisfied that it was a sturdy product. It suctions so hard that I put most of my weight against the base trying to get it off, but it wouldn't without cranking the lever back to release the suction. It's pretty easy to fit together. Things screw in place. The handle slots into the screw mechanism that turns the meat toward the blades. It's metal along with the blade itself. Other than that and the plates with the holes for the meat, everything else is 100% plastic. So far, I've used both fine ground and course ground, and it works like a dream. I've turned out both chicken and pork ground meat and haven't spent too much time with anything. I tried the pasta extruder once, but my dough was too thick. I'm going to be trying it again with a difference recipe. For the thickness of the dough, the extruder worked very well. If this breaks, I'll probably not buy this model because it's for beginners, and I want to process more meat than what this unit can handle (I wouldn't do more than 2-3 pounds through this little guy.) I've already specced out an electric unit I'll go for, but until this breaks or the blades wear out, this is my unit.

I purchased the Kitchen Basics 3-In-1 Meat Grinder to grind up small batches of hamburger on the fly. For small grinding jobs, less than 5 lbs of meat, it does a remarkably efficient and quality job. I use the coarse blade plate (about ¼ inch cut) which is perfect for gourmet hamburger using chuck eye, sirloin, brisket, short rib, or just about any other meat you may wish to use for this. Three to four pounds of steak takes less than 10 minutes to produce quality gourmet burger meat. It will handle larger amounts if you don’t mind the time and the cranking. The consistency and toothpack of the coarse ground meat is about as good as you’ll get from a medium priced electric grinder. As others have noted, it works best if you slice large cuts of meat down to smaller pieces before grinding, and the suction bottom requires a clean and very flat surface or the unit may slip around as you crank. It takes apart easily and cleanup is a snap. Best of all, it takes up barely any space in the back of a cabinet which is perfect for keeping the counters clear of excessive appliance clutter. I have not tried this item with pasta or vegetables. In summary, for less than $30 it is well worth hiding in the corner of a cabinet or drawer for occasional small grinding jobs for which pulling out a bigger electric unit might be overkill.

I bet every mom says this but I have two of the pickest kids on the planet. I have to be super sneaky to get vegetables into their diet. A friend suggested I hide them in their food. I gave it a shot and bought this. I used it to grind boiled broccoli. The machine has some definately positives in terms of design like the locking mechanism. It worked with minimal effort. I have a couple appliances with a similar set up and this suction lock works best in my opinion. The handle is fairly long so I had to move it to the very edge of my counter to use it but it wasn't hard to do. It turned easily too, it required minimal effort to grind up the broccoli. The only issue I had was I had to apply a bit of pressure with my potato masher to keep the machine moving along. Once I did it chewed up the broccoli pretty quick. It also didn't leave very much inside when it wss finished. As you can see by the photos the waste was very little. This little machine does a lot, I'm excited to try the sausage maker and the pasta marker attachments. Overall I'm alright with it, I'd probably buy it again.

Don't expect to get a real meat grinder! I have used a kitchen-aid meat grinder attachment, a real commercial electric meat grinder, and a cast-iron hand-cranked meat grinder. Alas, this isn't any of the above in form or function. Grinding anything is cumbersome. The push-stick is much smaller than the intake opening, so good luck trying to push anything down with it. It's useless. You will find yourself pushing the ingredients with your left hand, and keeping fingers on your right hand crossed (which you will also need to use for cranking the grinder) hoping that the grinder doesn't swallow your left hand whole! The blade attachment is counter-intuitive, and one cannot possibly discern which way the blade goes (it fits backwards and forwards, but only one is the correct direction). The instruction manual doesn't offer much help, as the poorly-drawn diagrams aren't discernible to the naked human eye. This takes inordinate amount of force to grind most things. Bottomline: Throw the $20 you are going to spend on this grinder in a blender with yogurt, and enjoy the smoothie, aptly-named, "Money well-spent!"

As a grinder this works reasonably well. The suction cup securely holds the grinder in place while operating it, and the crank turns pretty easily. I have done 10lb batches of meat with this without issue. I do wish the hopper was larger. It also disassembles easily; after each use I take the entire thing apart and throw it in the dishwasher (including the base). Though it can be used as a stuffer, it takes an extremely long time and requires quite a bit of effort; and I would not recommend it. The auger just can't get enough pressure to get a good fill on casings. The only way I could do so was to keep the hopper full and push down on the meat with my free hand as I turned the crank. That seemed to give just enough extra pressure to give a good fill on the casings, but it was a lot of effort to do so. I've never used another grinder/stuffer, so I don't know if that's a problem with this particular unit or with stuffing casings with meat grinders in general.

This works PERFECTLY for grinding and mincing food for babies. My 9 month old started refusing commercial baby food (I can't really blame her- it tastes and smells pretty terrible) but constantly wanted to eat our table food. Rather than laboriously mashing everything up with forks, or chewing it for her, or making giant batches in my food processor that she won't eat, I started a quest for an appropriate grinder. I tried small food processors, but they would not get the food to a uniform consistency and left dangerously large chunks when I was making small amounts. The immersion blender would only puree things with high water content, so it was useless for meat and beans. The dedicated baby food grinders were the embodiment of terrible engineering (why in the world would you want to press down on the food while turning a handle parallel to the food?). Enter this grinder. It is exactly what I wanted: compact and effective, and bonus: it's manual, so it travels. How well does it work? Well, to give you an example, I just stuck a few strips of raw peppers in there just now with a meatball, some rice and curry sauce. Within 20 seconds and with basically zero effort, I had a perfect mash/thick puree that I'm sure the baby will enjoy. My only complaint is that it came with some kind of adhesive stuck to the blades, so I had to soak them overnight in vinegar and dish soap and them scrub them really well to get it off. Worth EVERY penny. Buy it!

Made ham salad and it minced the ham perfectly, very good product

This is awesome. Good grind, suctions to tablespoons stays tight. Quick clean up. Easy store away.

Product delivered (Huamei Mincer / Made in China) is completely different from what was ordered (Kitchen Basics® 3-In-1 Hand Crank Manual Meat Grinder /Made in U.S.). This product does not contain any tray as shown in the picture. I am planning to return it.

I love it thank you