I got a gift card from work, paid for my STX. First grind was a prime rib roast I made prime rib burgers and slap yo momma were they good and this grinder is a thing of beauty! Works like a charm easy to clean love all the tools it came with the patty press is perfection! Makes my Pattie’s look store bought!
I’ve had this grinder for a few years - works GREAT! I’m glad I reviewed this video again before making sausage. You always forget one thing if you don’t use it regularly. Thanks for the video.
I've bought all my meat processing and BBQ equipment through Amazon for the value. I always hand wash and hand dry everything. The metal will spot then rust if you don't. I also keep the boxes and all the packing to store my equipment. Everything works very well if you take care of it.
Thank you for your idea! I will add it to the list of videos we would like to do. We haven't had the opportunity to get back to videos yet, but are hoping to soon.
Whenever I try to stuff the sausage casings it starts out well but then slows down considerably and emulsifies the meat a lot. Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve this process? I literally have to push the meat in with all my might to get it to move.
Tim: Make sure you are using the Sausage Stuffing Plate and do not have the cutting blade inserted when you are stuffing sausage. The "Most Important" part if stuffing sausage is the amount of water that you add to your mixture of sausage. From what you stated, it seems you did not have enough water added to your sausage mixture and the percentage of water to meat is Very Important. I would tell you a percentage, but I cannot because every type of ground meat has a different amount of lean and far meat in it. After you have found the proper texture and your meat stuffed fine, you will get to know the feel of how the mixture should be for proper stuffing. You should always cool your sausage mixture before you stuff it. If you are going to add "any" salt to your mixture, add the salt within hours before you are going to stuff as if you add it and cool it in the fridge for hours or overnight, the mixture will harden way too much. I hope the above information helps. Regards, Sasha Customer Service Tech STX International, Inc.
it seems like a really good grinder, does it comes only with voltage of 110-120 v ? or you also have a product line for european countries that use 220 v ?
Rumor has it that these units are not very user friendly when it comes to stuffing sausage and this video really doesn't show much detail on it. Guess that's not that important. Well so far I have done two grinds and it's miles beyond my old manual grinder but I'll gearing up to do hotdogs soon so it should be interesting to see how it preforms in that arena. I love hotdogs but have never made my own so I'm hoping it will do a descent job! Apparently the trick is keeping air gaps out of the feed tube. We'll see.
Mine didn't come with a sausage wheel like the metal one in your video. There one that look similar. It is plastic and it has a domed projection. Is this to be used for the sausage wheel as in your video?
Hi Michael - You just pick one of the blades to pair with one of the grinding plates. Before it has been used it doesn't matter which ones goes with each other. And while this is recommended, it is certainly not necessary. It will work fine even if you do not do this.
Thank you. Planning on the "Platinum Edition" Turboforce II Heavy Duty Electric Meat Grinder: 6 Grinding Plates, 3 Stainless Blades, so it would be a good idea to pick up a couple more.
Hi Sylvia - We are so sorry that we don't have any stock right at the moment. Our sales were far more than we could have planned for and we didn't have the manufacturing department ready as quickly to respond. We will have them back in stock by the beginning of March. I apologize for the delay. Please give us a call at 402-742-2586 if there is anything else we can help you with!
Hi Xiaohong - No, it would not be a good idea to use this grinder for pork skins. They will get wrapped around the auger and will definitely clog up the unit.
