Manual meat grinder problem

[Bones]

So I bought a Weston #22 manual meat grinder for grinding up pheasant and quail breast. I used it last night and the blade and plate kept getting clogged I had to clean it every 3 minutes is this typical with manual meat grinders or am I doing something wrong.

[Bowhunter444]

Meat needs to be real cold going through a grinder or it heats up and gums up everything. You might want to go through a bigger plate to start then regrind through the smaller plate

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[Stan Putz]

They clog easily, that's why most people use an electric grinder. Meat has to be cold & plates & chopper knives have to be sharp.

 

 

[hammer4reel]

Might need a bigger motor 

[Woodsman416]

Keep the meat cold. Just above freezing. Keep the grinder in the fridge too so the metal doesn't warm the meat.

[Bones]

Sounds like I need to dig a little deeper into my pockets and get an electric one.

I get most of my deer done at a butcher so it will be o my for upland and the occasional deer when it’s warm or road kill

 

[Roon]

I used a hand grinder for many years, if meats warm not as easy but NOT the issue you are having,  your cutter is not tight to the plate. Take it apart and check contact between plate and cutter,  if not tight might need to shim back of cutter to push tight to plate.

Fix that and it will work like a charm 

[Bones]

I’ll try it thanks 

[jerseyhunter]

Besides the meat barely being frozen and the cutter and plate are tight have the grinder cold also.  Once you have used the grinder mark the plates and cutter with a file so as to put them on the same way each time so that they will marry each other and act in sync not fight each other as in real life.

[Liv2hunt]

I have a manual grinder as well. After a year of doing it by hand I decided to go a different route. I welded a socket onto it where you would put the crank. I have a Big 1/2” drill since I started using the drill instead of hand cranking it.. it just pumps the meat out...