There’s nothing more enticing to your senses and taste buds than the smell of a fired-up grill. However, grilling is not just about tossing the burgers on the cooking grate, but there’s a lot more that goes into the process—this is something I learned the hard way! Therefore, to help you avoid the same mistakes,…
I’ve been giving some serious thought lately to switching my two German Shepherds to the BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) as an effort to improve their coat and overall health. Since I had my dogs on kibble all their lives, it was important to transition them slowly to a raw dog food diet, and one…
When my good ol’ electric meat grinder broke down last year, I was struggling to replace it with a new one, owing to the shortage of stock during the pandemic. However, the store did have a vast array of food processors to choose from, so I picked one up to see if it would deliver…
I wanted to grind a really large amount of meat that I’d picked up on sale at my local butcher’s a couple of years ago, but I didn’t want to spend all day doing the task. Since my current meat electric meat grinder wasn’t working its best, it was time to upgrade to a much…
Before I bought my meat grinders, I’ve had been using a KitchenAid Meat Grinder attachment with a stand mixer for grinding meat for years, and I have used it many times to grind the perfect hamburger meat. Grinding hamburger meat with a KitchenAid meat grinder is similar to as you would with a regular meat…
How do I process my wild game? This was the big question I had a couple of years ago after my hunting trip in Ohio, since I had moved away from my regular deer meat processor. Therefore, I decided to grind deer meat, and to my surprise, the process was quite straightforward as long as…
A lesson I learned many years ago was that defrosting ground beef wasn’t as easy as I thought, and there’s a right and wrong way to go about it. But defrosting is an important step because you can’t really cook meat that’s hard as a rock, otherwise, you risk spoiling your ground beef. That said,…
Being a meat aficionado, I’ve owned several meat grinders over time, but now this is starting to become a little bit of an issue, as I’m running out of room to store them. But I’ve always cared for my appliances, so I simply don’t want to put up a garage sale or donate them to…
Grinding cooked meat in a food processor wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, because there are a few essential steps to take to ensure the results aren’t mushy above all things. There are several reasons for grinding cooked meat in a food processor including baby feeding, sprinkling on other dishes, or to…
I hunted my first white-tailed deer in Ohio a year or so ago. It was a monster buck, so I wanted to grind most of the meat to store in my freezer, and consumer over the next 6 months or so. But to my surprise, my hand crank home meat grinder just couldn’t handle grinding…
