Meat Grinders

[i am a giraffe]

Can someone recommend a good, not too expensive meat grinder that can go through bones? I'm cooking for my dogs, and I need to grind the bones up since they're cooked.

I looked on eBay just for fun, and I saw these old fashion hand crank grinders that look like they're solid cast iron or something. Do those take bones well? Because they look like they could grind a bag of bricks.

 

[Herschel]

Can someone recommend a good, not too expensive meat grinder that can go through bones? I'm cooking for my dogs, and I need to grind the bones up since they're cooked.

I looked on eBay just for fun, and I saw these old fashion hand crank grinders that look like they're solid cast iron or something. Do those take bones well? Because they look like they could grind a bag of bricks.

From what I've heard, most of the consumer models will eventually fail you. Is there any way that you can have someone with a commercial grinder process the food for you, or could you bought it pre-ground?

Alternatively, you could cut the meat off of the bones and cook that, and then just give raw bones + cooked meat.

 

[LoveNewfies]

I looked on eBay just for fun, and I saw these old fashion hand crank grinders that look like they're solid cast iron or something. Do those take bones well? Because they look like they could grind a bag of bricks.

No, not for me - I couldn't crank hard enough to even begin to grind any bones.

If you want to grind bones harder than chicken bones, you'd have to go with a heavy commercial grinder made for grinding bones. If you're doing chicken, check out Northern Tools. I haven't checked them out for some time, but, I had one of their grinders before I bought my commercial Hobart and it served us well. Literally, it ground thousands of pounds of chicken with bones.