Well its my daughters 2nd bday and BBQ is on the menu. Smoked 2 butts last night and will be dropping some ribs in the sous vide here in a few. My girlie loves Smoked meat or as she calls it nummy nummy.

I let her open a present earlier last week as I needed to borrow it. She was ecstatic.

Got the top attached. Definately not commercial grade, but still a nice addition.

Chef the world is an interesting place. My sister is visiting and so she can help with the new baby. Yesterday I spun up a few meatgistic videos and she kept remarking about how I watch some strange stuff. Though she never asked me to turn it. One video was the blood sausage episode and I had to agree it wasn’t that appealing, but it was interesting.

Then dinner rolled around and she kept raving about how good everything was and kept asking questions about the technique. My father in law kept telling her he probably has a meatgistics video you can watch if your interested.

Even with all the not so wonderfulness that’s going on we are privileged to live in a time where you can learn about or how to do anything without leaving the comfort of home. For those skills and techniques that are hard to come by I encourage all of you old timers to document them and pass them on.

Austin

Howdy Guys,

I am from and live in Southeast Georgia
I have not done a tone of processing, maybe a few deer here and there.
I enjoy pepperoni, salami, and all forms of sausage and have just stocked up on some fresh sausage seasoning and equipment from waltons.
I have a ceramic cooker, a flat top grill conversion, a Stumps Gravity Feed clone, and a reverse flow tow behind, sous vide, Oven fryer, convection oven, Commercial style deep fryer, and a cowboy ring.

I enjoy cooking and have been working on getting “tooled up” and sharpening my skills on things outside of traditional bbq pork dishes.

My short term plans include: Taking a hack at the Canadian bacon tomorrow. The Chicago Brats maybe this weekend and Kielbasa in a few weeks.

Chef

That is a very nice cooker. You must cook for entire Armies. Fortunately I do not have that many friends or I would have my whole paycheck going towards feeding them. This is my little cooking space with my other cooker I built, a reverse flow tow behind from an old 120 gallon propane tank. It also has a gas burner down the middle which helps it double as a grill for burger burns. I am still in hobby land, but maybe one day I will get to play for a living.

Today was stuffed pork tenderloin.

Chef . I hear ya. My wife wanted to know what our 1 year old daughter was getting for her 2nd birthday. I said a sausage stuffer and mixer. She got a little upset and asked what she was gonna do with those. I then reminder her of the box she plays in all day that my kamado smoker came in.

TexLaw Ditto on the grams. Measuring and converting 1/16th of a lb takes way to much time.

So we had our son at 4am this morning. I told my wife that canadian bacon was good enough to enduce labor. She believes me know.

lkrfletcher we did pickles for the first time this year. My cucumbers were gangbusters till the pickle worm found them. Fought those bastsrds for two months.

Here goes Nothing.

Got the printer together and have it calibrated. First test print was a little piggy.

YooperDog those look good. I need to get me a brisket and get to work.

So in my venture I have come to the conclusion that this style knife does not fit these manual grinders. The edges are too fat and they get caught on the housing. They can be ground down, but allot of people do not have the equipment to do that.

Parksider Yeah it is a little scary. Mine currently has a light switch and a foot pedal. I just got a smaller pulley to put on the motor which will slow the auger down quite a bit. I have done some research and my motor is capable of running in reverse so I might put a double pull switch on it just in case it gets clogged at lower speeds, but at this point I just turn it off and back it up manually. After all the effort I will of put into it I could have done something as good with allot less effort, but Its all about learning and making something with my hands.

This is it currently.

lkrfletcher Best way to do that for sure. I’ve had great luck buying the Smithfield preseason packs and cooking them in their packaging at the same temp you did. Makes for a delicious easy weekday meal.

Jonathon when you think something cannot be improved upon - add bacon.

PapaSop I bought the 10" 240W BESWOOD250 after much consideration and allot of research. I love it. That said it is very similar with the 10" weston I believe. These types if slicers are deli/pro quality they are belt driven and are significant in weight. Not something your going to put in a home kitchen cabinet very easily. It will however I believe do anything you could ask it.

Tex_77 Some quick searches and I doubt you will find a grinder attachment, but as Johnathan pointed out I think you can process the meat with the cutter to get the consistency you would with a grinder. Instead of using a plate for the particle size I’m guessing processing time would dictate size/consistency. I have always wanted one after having to manually chop 60 butts for a fund raiser. It would make cured sausage easy too. I’m telling ya I would buy one for a $100 today if I found one. Those people clearly have no idea what they have.

This is the first one that came up on my search. Mind that price tag.

Well I have searched the world via my web browser and it seems no one makes the shute adapter for these grinders anymore. I got as far as talking to someone who had one that fit a #22 Manual grinder that they “thought” would work if I ground off some lip, but I wasn’t down with that. So its time to get busy engineering my own.

These are the units I was trying to purchase.

This is the first one:

And this is the second one:

Either would accomplish my goal of adding some functionality, but more importantly some safety. Both were from the same supplier, but from different manufacturers and one I was told was actually manufactured by walton’s at one point, but alas no one makes either anymore.

So The second option decked out with tray and Pusher was $220 with shipping so I decided that is my new budget. A 3d printer has been on my list for a while and recently the Ender3 has gone on sale for $167. An upgrade for self leveling bed puts the unit with filament and extra nozzles at $220. So here we go. I did order a digital caliper, but I’m not counting that .

Here is my initial drawing using measurements with a measuring tape I had in the garage. I used Fusion360 which has a free version of the 3d modeling tool by Autocad.

Stay tuned! The printer should be here in a week or so and the Calipers today. My goal is to make something that slips over the current mouth of the grinder and attaches at the same point as the back feet. I would like the whole assembly to be no more than 2 pieces.