How to put a knife in a meat grinder?

A meat grinder is a household appliance that quickly “rooted” in the kitchen and became popular. Today, with its help, many culinary processes are carried out, semi-finished products are prepared for further use. It is hard to call a meat grinder an aggregate difficult in the device, but nevertheless, some difficulties may arise. One of the pressing questions is how to insert a knife? That's what we’ll talk about in this article. The instructions, which will be described in detail here, will enable the user to assemble the device without much effort and problems.

All meat grinders that are currently represented on the consumer market, can be divided into 2 types.

• Manual or mechanical. This unit was also used by our great-grandmothers. The mechanism is quite simple and straightforward - the device must be assembled and, rotating the handle with the help of the hand, perform the necessary processes.
• Electric. A more advanced, modern meat grinder, it is the brainchild of scientific and technological progress. The mechanism of this device, of course, is more complicated.

Let's take a closer look at exactly what details each of the above types consists of.

Manual meat grinder consists of:

• auger shaft - an element in the form of a large spiral, during rotation of which the product falls on the knife;
• knife - it can be a disk or a four-wing propeller, it must be installed correctly, this will make it possible to process most products;
• gratings - has the form of a flat disk with many holes, is responsible for grinding the product;
• clamping nut - it is twisted on top and secures the grill and knife to the shaft;
• pens - mounted on a screw shaft and secured with a screw, it is she who drives the mechanism.

An electric meat grinder should consist of:

• the main building - in most cases, metal or plastic is used for its manufacture;
• gratings;
• a knife, while there are electric meat grinders with two knives, which makes it possible to perform work even better and process the product;
• fixing disk;
• engine;
• pusher;
• receiver for products;
• screw shaft.

Here are just a handheld device is brought into operation by the physical strength of a person, and an electric one by connecting the device to the mains and by pressing a button.

For a household appliance to work correctly and meet the requirements, it must be properly assembled. Consider how to do this. The assembly process of manual equipment consists of the following steps:

• in a metal case you need to place a screw shaft;
• attach the knife and grill to the thin end of the screw shaft, and on the other side the handle;
• when the handle is fixed using a special screw, you need to proceed with the installation of the knife;
• Next, you need to attach the grate, which is fixed with a clamping nut;
• after that, the meat grinder is simply installed on the surface and tightly screwed with a foot to the countertop so that there is no slipping.

The process of assembling electrical equipment consists of the same steps, only at the end of the assembly, at the final stage, a loading bowl is installed. The big advantage of an electric appliance is availability of instructions for proper assembly and operation. If you have questions about installing any of the parts, you can always “spy” the necessary information.

In most cases, a meat grinder is used to grind meat into minced meat. That is why one of the main parts and components of the mechanism is the knife, which is responsible for the quality of grinding the product. If it is not installed correctly, the meat will not be chopped. Of course, the mechanism will work, with the help of a screw the product will be pushed to the grill, but the process will not go further. Consider installing a knife in each of the types.

1. When the screw shaft is installed in the housing, you can begin to fix the knife. It must be inserted at the thinner end of the shaft.
2. Of great importance is the correct location of the knife. The convex side should be inward and flat outward.
3. Next, the cutting element is attached to the grill.

1. After installing the screw shaft in the housing, you need to fix the knife.
2. The screw shaft has two sides. One, thicker, is installed inside the case, but a knife is put on the thin side.
3. To process food products correctly, you need to place the cutting component with the flat side out.
4. After that, the grill is attached to the knife.

As you can see, the installation process of the knife in both meat grinders is identical. It is imperative to do everything as described above. It repents both the manual unit and the electric one. Since an electric meat grinder is a modernized thing, it can be used to grind not only minced meat. Of course, this remains a priority, especially since the newest models of the device are also equipped with various nozzles with which you can grind the meat, for example, into cubes. In an electric grinder, you can also grind vegetables, fruits, most importantly, choose and install the nozzle correctly.

As for the manual meat grinder, this is a rather ancient device, which nonetheless can be found in every second house. However, many housewives continue to use a hand-held device. Unfortunately, a manual meat grinder does not have as many additional functions and capabilities as its “opponent”.

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