Deni 3500 800-Watt Professional Grade Meat Grinder

Excellent product that lives up to the promise.
We were nervous about ordering this unit because it had no reviews when we did. But it had the best power rating; it was big enough to feel comfortable that it wouldn't burn up the first time you use it and a low enough power (800 watt versus 1350+ watts on the largest home units) that it wasn't going to blow breakers when you plug it in. It seemed like just the right size - and it was (is).

We bought this because we refuse to buy any store ground meat anymore; we haven't done so for a couple years - neither sausage nor hamburger. We grind our own. We do have to buy the meat to grind but we find it as fresh as we can and rinse off the outside well with cold water before beginning. (Update 6-11-10: Now we have learned that experts say don't rinse the meat. What's in your water might be worse than what's on the meat!) That's about as safe as you can get, I think.

We've been using a manual grinder which I don't mind so much but ours is a heavy duty one that...

Grind Away
Plenty powerful. The throat that you feed the meat into could have been a little larger, and the attachments for grinding the meat, coarse, medium or fine are not stainless, so they tend to start rusting after the first use, so make sure you put a thin coat of veggie oil on them when you are done.

Absolutely awesome
This grinder is absolutely awesome. Just make sure you put it together correctly. I put the cutting blade in backwards the first time I used it and what a horror show. It took me over an hour to mangel six pounds of pork butt. The picture showing how the cutting blade goes on is too small and you need a magnifying glass to see it. Make sure the rounded part of the blade is not facing you and the flat part with the blades is facing you. I would highly recommend this grinder to anyone. It ground up the meat faster than I could feed it and the hamburger was great plus the taste is unmatched.

Today I ground 6 plus pounds of pork butt in around 3 or 4 minutes.

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