Norpro Meat Grinder, Mincer, and Pasta Maker

List Price:
$31.99
Price: $31.99
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Product Details
- Stands 7 inches elevated; measures 4-1/4 inches in diameter; made in USA
- Includes: impolite and fine mincing plates, sausage funnel, 3 pasta attachments
- Pattern for grinding hamburger, creating sausage or pate, and blending baby food
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Product Description
Customer Reviews
Talented tool for kitchen
When I purchased the meat grinder, I had reviewed the comments about the outcome. But I still decided to give it a try.
It turned out to be a great try:
1. It is easy to be assembled and works perfectly.
2. It is clean and easy to be cleaned.
3. It is negligible and doesn't occupy too much space.
Definitely a good deal (value for money)!
2010-02-19
(BEACHWOOD, OH, US) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
Handles fat and ligaments very well
My fiance and I received this today and were definitely excited to try it out. We had some pork shoulder in the freezer we cut into strips and fed into the grinder. At first I was worried that the grinder was a bit on the small side but it easily ground through the pork, making astute work of the fat and tendons in the meat. The ground was nice and even, not too big, not too small.
The design itself is very sturdy and effective, it's definitely not cheese-paring plastic. The suction device was very secure and did not budge during the grinding. I have not tried the pasta function since I bought this first and foremost to grind pork for dumplings.
Overall I am super satisfied, especially since it easily ground a fairy athletic piece of meat very nicely. Would definitely recommend it!
2010-01-05
(Upland, CA) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5
Domesticated on first use
During the pasta making dispose of, after about 20 ziti, the spindle wore against the hopper and ended up melting the spindle. The broken spindle continued to profession, but not as intended. If you don't want plastic in your diet, I would recommend NOT buying this piece of junk.
I can't imagine how it would trade for grinding meat if it can't handle pasta dough.
2010-01-04
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 1
first-rate value
I purchased this grinder for a dear neighbor team a few who had recently sworn off red meat (just red) and were not interested in ingesting whatever they put into chicken and turkey and fish patties/sausages (beaks/claws/whatever, you understand :) Well, this arrived tonight and I brought it over to them. We washed up the parts in warm soapy water, dried from stem to stern, put a couple of chicken breast strips in there and away we cranked.
Fantastic. Then we moved onto turkey teat and we ground it up...on fine was quite perfect. Had no good white fish fillet to try out though we would probably get a compare favourably with result.
This thing rocks. The instructions are a bit sparse but anybody with some previous knowledge of a grinder (like I had with a Waring Pro) could conformation out the theory and implementation. The reason I am giving it only 4 stars is the lack of a decent manual or more than two recipes.
My stupendous old electric grinder had a kazillion parts and was quite temperamental. I remember giving up the big heavy electric internal grinding/sausage thing when it started injecting heavy black grease onto the ground meat. I then solely went to a butcher and picked out cuts for them to grind in front of me. But this is a Terrific Choice for a single or couple justified wanting to grind a bit of white meat here and there. We have not tried out the pasta maker yet - only had it one night. I don't think the design is optimal for such but it did such a eximious job on the poultry I am sure they will have a go at rigatoni too!
2009-11-17
| Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 4
A exacting grinder
I like this grinder.
In the nearby I've owned the metal grinders that you have to clamp to a table and the electric kind with big motors that take up most of the space on the caboose counter. They were so clumsy and a pain to clean that I seldom used either one. The electric one failed recently grinding peanuts!! and the old metal enchiridion one got left behind in the last move so I decided to try this Nor-Pro despite it being made partly of plastic.
I was pleasantly surprised at how well it works. You do have to assemble the blades correctly. My first propel was meatballs -- it ground the meat(buffalo stew meat in this case), the onions, a little garlic, earn stems and leaves, and the dry bread all very nicely into the square bowl which is included with the grinder. I grind my own meat to avoid the fat and "parts" from supermarket hamburger. The rough-hewn grind is just right for tacos or wonton filling. Cleanup was easy - I put the pieces in the settled bowl, added some hot water and a squirt of detergent and it was all clean in a few minutes and ready to use for the next meal. The especially pieces fit into a small plastic ziplock bag along with the basic instructions so they are not likely to get separated or lost. The rectangular pan is attractive enough and the right size to take to table to serve sushi or gyoza.
The plastic is nice staunch plastic like that in Lego toys. You do need to have a smooth countertop for the suction to work to stabilize the position(it doesn't work on my butcher-block table). It looks nice sitting on the counter so there it stays and gets tempered to a lot. I only use my blender for smoothies nowadays. Nuts and beans and all sorts of other foods get ground in this little grinder.
One needs to create sure the pasta dough is not too moist... it takes a little practice.
The vegetables and cooked meats typically employed for sandwich salads grind very nicely - even celery. So it is great when preparing lunches for brown bag or picnics. It also does a good job of grinding garlic for garlic bread and/or salad dressing... saves my hands from smelling like garlic forever.
I'm port side-handed and it is still easy for me to use.
2009-09-22
| JK (AZ USA) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 5