Lidl Mincer

kerryman12

Hi Guys

Though this may be of interest to some of my fellow stalkers:

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20080714.p.BifinettMincer

ivanthehunter

Will it last? What kind of money would you pay for a good one, like you might see in a butchers?

kerryman12

I will tell you in a few months how long it will last.

To be honest I imagine as long as you are sensiable with the size of meat chuncks you feed it with it should be ok.
Before I got this one I spoke to a local shop that suppliers butchers with their equipment. They sell new and second hand equipment. When I asked then for prices etc was advised €1000 :eek: :eek:

When I advised him what it was for he pointed me towards Lidl again!!!

Sparks

Depends on what you're feeding into it and how well you look after it Ivan. If you're dropping in bone bits or shot on a regular basis, don't expect it to cope at all. Small mincers like that, or like the one I'd personally prefer, have one thing in common - you really do need to trim the meat you feed them. No bone, no shot, no skin, no sinew, no silverskin. If you trim and clean and debone properly, they'll happily do the job for a lot less than a butcher's model (600 or so is a good price for one of those). But remember, the only reason butchers use "butchers model" mincers is that a lot of the less scrupulous ones will feed those trimmings back into the meat for sausages and such (Well. There's also the amount of meat they'd mince - butchers models can do up to 250kg of meat per hour). If you properly clean, debone and trim your meat before mincing, you not only get proper results from a less expensive mincer, but you also get a much nicer and tastier end product.

jwshooter

Sparks wrote: »

Depends on what you're feeding into it and how well you look after it Ivan. If you're dropping in bone bits or shot on a regular basis, don't expect it to cope at all. Small mincers like that, or like the one I'd personally prefer, have one thing in common - you really do need to trim the meat you feed them. No bone, no shot, no skin, no sinew, no silverskin. If you trim and clean and debone properly, they'll happily do the job for a lot less than a butcher's model (600 or so is a good price for one of those). But remember, the only reason butchers use "butchers model" mincers is that a lot of the less scrupulous ones will feed those trimmings back into the meat for sausages and such (Well. There's also the amount of meat they'd mince - butchers models can do up to 250kg of meat per hour). If you properly clean, debone and trim your meat before mincing, you not only get proper results from a less expensive mincer, but you also get a much nicer and tastier end product.

log on to www.bushwear.co.uk and look at there bush tukka cat,there have mincers from 20 to 350 pounds mincing 10 pounds of meat in 5 mins ,smokers ,spices ,burger presses .knifes saws even curing powder for making jerkies

Sparks

They look decent enough JW, but to be honest, unless you're using it a lot - and by that I mean you're mincing a deer every weekend - I wouldn't bother with them.

For most people and most domestic kitchens, you're looking to save on space and cost where possible - which means no unitaskers - and also to have the best taste you can (and gristle in your burgers doesn't help there).

Personally, I'd say buy a kenwood chef with the biggest motor you can find and a metal body for weight; get the mincer attachment; and clean, debone and trim the meat properly. That's what I grew up doing, and the kenwood lasted for nearly 30 years of daily use for a family of six. It's the setup I have myself today, and it's the second most used bit of kit in the kitchen (the first being a proper knife).

John Griffin

I bought a similar mincer in Lidl about 5 years ago and it still work fine. Does the job.

kerryman12

you cant expect more that that for €60!!

Sparks

Well... yes you can.
The kenwood chef attachment for mincing and sausage-making is usually around €50. Granted, you do have to have the kenwood chef to attach it to But I'd still take that option because the chef will last decades and get used for a dozen other things regularly (I use mine for bread-making, pretty much every kind of baking, as a food processor and for liquidising for soups and such). For a domestic kitchen, multi-taskers like that are a better deal.

So you buy one for herself indoors and buy the mincer for yourself
(That, or you learn to make proper pizza - as in, six-day sourdough pizza - and earn some serious brownie points )


(and who doesn't like building their own wood-burning pizza oven in the back yard? Beats the pants off another BBQ grill...)

kerryman12

are you getting a percentage from Kenwood Sparks???? :P

kowloon

The company (Kompernass I think they're called) who make the Bifinett mincer have a really good customer service, so it'll last to the warranty at the very least. It'll mince the small cuts no bother.

Sparks

kerryman12 wrote: »

are you getting a percentage from Kenwood Sparks???? :P

I wish!

meathstevie

Hold on to your receipt and it's 3 years warranty and speaking from experience Lidl is not fussy about honouring warranty commitments.

kowloon

meathstevie wrote: »

Hold on to your receipt and it's 3 years warranty and speaking from experience Lidl is not fussy about honouring warranty commitments.

Like I said above, the company themselves were very quick to honour the warranty, best not dealing with Lidl at all.

patrickdt10

will the kenwood mincer work on all models of the chef mixers sparks?

Sparks

I'd double-check for the more modern ones partrick, but I know that one from 1975 worked in it's replacement chef bought in '03...

Subtitle

I got a Lidl mincer about two years ago and use it on a weekly basis to make good lean minced beef and minced pork.
I can't fault it, easy to use and easy to clean.

tfox

John Griffin wrote: »

I bought a similar mincer in Lidl about 5 years ago and it still work fine. Does the job.

I have a similar one from lidl.

Works brill, will mince as fast as I can feed it !! Just doesnt like tendons or sinew :mad: they block it up something good !!

Subtitle

Going to try sausages with it. I was looking at these sites this evening:D


http://www.irishcraftbrewer.com/Community/viewtopic.php?t=1118&start=0&sid=34989780dc1960d93d7d7606c85f1b0f

http://lpoli.50webs.com/Sausage%20recipes.htm#FRESH

http://stores.ebay.ie/designasausage