KWS TC-12 Commercial 765W 1HP Electric Meat Grinder Stainless Steel Meat Grinder for Restaurant/deli/ Home

After the 3/4 horse Sportsman's Guide broke a plastic gear which couldn't be replaced I decided to look for a nice heavy duty grinder. This 1 1/2 hp seemed to fit the bill and with replacement parts you can buy I thought I'd give it a try. We raised 3 pigs this last year and butchered them ourselves. This grinder kept up with ease, as fast as we could feed it. I don't think the motor even grunted as we made about 50 pounds of sausage. Clean up was easy and looking forward to next years hunting season and possibly raising a cow.

I'm only going to give this machine a 2 star rating even though it is a good grinder. I've had this machine now for about few months and laboriously have made about 25 pounds of sausages. First it's very noisy and I wear hearing protection (ear muffs) while using it as it could cause permanent hearing damage if used for long periods of time. Once the meat has been ground its best to bring the meat temperature to nearly freezing otherwise it is very difficult to load ground meat through the machine to make sausages. The plunger is undersized and designed poorly, I could come up with a better design. When trying to push the ground meat with the plunger the meat just keeps squirting back up around the plunger and when pulling the plunger back out it creates suction now sucking out any meat below it while also lifting the machine of the countertop. Now you have a void creating an air lock when trying to introduce more meat. It is a good grinder and if that's all I was going to use it for I'd give it a 4 star rating.

Really well built, heavy duty and quietly powerful.

ExcelentI have been usr it for more than two years

Truly a heavy duty equipment! Not your household type unit.

Good deal

Great quality product. Easy to assemble and clean. No regrets what so ever!