Once upon a time, to cook cutlets, chefs all over the world worked hard, working with knives in order to finely chop meat and cook minced meat. Since then, the term "minced meat", "chopped meatballs" remained in the cooking business.
This method of cooking mince is still used today. It is believed that in the minced meat, cut with knives, there is more juice left, which makes the patties tastier. However, you won’t make many cutlets in this way. Therefore, once in the 19th century, a mechanical meat grinder was invented to help cooks and housewives. She allowed to process meat in a shorter time, with less effort. Now mincemeat could be cooked even from the most sinewy pieces of meat.
Since then, little has changed in the design of a mechanical meat grinder. True, she had a competitor - an electric meat grinder, which generally does not require any effort from a person. With high power, such a machine will grind into forcemeat meat of almost any rigidity and sinewyness. However, the mechanical meat grinder is still in use. There are a number of reasons for this, the first of which is a small price, which is several times less than that of electrical analogues. The second reason is compactness. These are very small manual machines. Again they are less electric.
And if it is more convenient to install an electric meat grinder stationary, this requires a place in the kitchen, and it needs to be connected to the network, the only drawback of a mechanical meat grinder in this sense was that it needs to be fixed with a screw on the edge of the table. But this problem has now been solved with the help of a vacuum suction cup. After the work with the mechanical meat grinder is finished, it just needs to be disassembled, washed, dried and removed before the next use. Unassembled, it fits in any drawer in the kitchen.
The case of a mechanical meat grinder is made of steel alloys, or of aluminum. Now their bodies can even be made of plastic. Any of these materials must be high quality and chemically passive with respect to meat. They are mounted on the countertop either as before, clamping the edge of the countertop with a screw, or using a vacuum suction cup located in the base of the housing. Everything else in the design has not changed since its invention.
Two types of gratings with larger and smaller holes and four-blade knives are included in the kit, and, of course, its main detail is the screw, which is actually the Archimedes screw, and the handle screwed onto it, where one human force is applied. In addition to meat, a mechanical meat grinder allows you to process vegetables and fruits, make curly dough.
Almost every housewife has a mechanical meat grinder. They are popular and in demand. They are produced by the best companies engaged in the production of high-tech equipment for kitchen equipment. These are French Vitesse, and English Kitchen Craft, and German Bosch. And experienced chefs believe that the best meat grinder is an old mechanical meat grinder made of cast iron. The forcemeat obtained during processing on it is the most delicious.