Lidl mincer?

[4535jacks]

I am tired of my hand mincer so time to upgrade. Lidl are selling Silvercrest 350W mincers for £35 and i am of picking one up to do burgers and sausages so it needs to be capable of grinding pork belly.

Has anyone got any experience of these mincers? Are they worth £35?

TIA,

Gary

 

[John_R]

I've had mine for years, and it certainly works on pork belly etc.

Learning the trick of putting diced meat in the freezer just long enough to firm up has helped it with some of the sinew in venison.

The only time it suffered was my own fault, used the handle of a wooden spoon to poke meat down which jammed and stripped a plastic gear. I made a new gear and it's up and running again.

 

[25 Sharps]

Mine works really well, I'd say they were worth the money

 

[Colonel]

The first mincer I bought said to use for 15mins and rest for 30mins, I took it back that day

 

[Sonicdmb73]

£35 and a three year warranty. I think I will have one of those myself.
Probably better than the Kenwood mixer one I use atm.

 

[Smudger243]

Been user a lidl mincer for over 3 years works fine provided you use the plate with the correct size holes. Don't forget to oil the plates after cleaning. Sausages take a bit of practice and if you can get someone to help feed the filling in as you need both hands up front. Do it yourself and you tend to get pockets of air in the skins.

 

[Stacey1]

Gotta love a lidl bargain
Had one for a while and its been fine

 

[oxfordshirestalker]

I bought one the other week, works brilliantly, can’t fault it in that respect.
Only problem which none of us can understand was that I found little bits of rubbery plastic in the mince on the first use? I thought I had cleaned all the parts thoroughly and there was no risk of there being anything like that in the meat as it was straight off the carcass. Just worth looking out for. Nothing in the next batches so there must have been a bit of packaging or something stuck in it.

 

[bryn]

Had one and ended up getting a luvele instead no worrys now about chilling the meat first or sinews clogging it up.

Bryn

 

[User00001]

I bought one from Lidls a couple of weeks ago along with a vac packer. Quite impressed with both items to be honest. Obviously they are nothing like the ones I had when I was running a commercial larder but they seem perfectly suitable for home use. I did think the mincer wasn't working properly to begin with but I was using the wrong plate.

 

[woody]

Have one, brilliant for the money. Only thing some of the parts don't like going in the dish washer, not sure what it is but there is a dark film on them so hand washing all metal parts is better. Bought a vac packer as well.

 

[d0nni]

I had one for 2 years. Done me well. The drawback with it is its plastic geared. doesn't take any abuse at all. Would still have mine only 1 heavy piece of fat run one of the gears and that was that. I then decided to spend the extra we bit of coin (see odd one go for £75 - but generally in around £100) and got myself the luvele meat grinder (metal geared). It is an animal for the money. Personally id say spend the extra we bit and get something that will not sh*t itself first trial it gets.

 

[lochty]

I got one of the Andrew James ones, around the £45 mark and it's fine as long as you don't try to mince 100's of pounds of mince at one go. I restrict mine to about 10 lbs and then give it a rest. As above, better with meat that's chilled or dry from the larder. So I would presume that the Lidl one will be the same

 

[Odders]

I picked up a traditional, cast iron mincer in the US a couple of years back. This is fixed to a chunk of 40mm kitchen counter offcut which has the same bolt pattern as the piece my Rockchucker's mounted on, so both bolt to the same bench.
It's a hefty piece of kit & I can run 5kg of meat through it in a few minutes, even without help shovelling the meat in (partially defrosted minces much better than unfrozen).
Only been making Cumberland so far but intend moving on to venison as soon as I get a chance.

 

[Thetownie]

Just had one from Lidl. Goin gto use it on pheasant breast and venison for game pies and sausages.

 

[YorkshireJoe]

Had mine a year now, works well for money. Care needs to be taken with how long it’s ran for and small portions at a time, as the motor can overheat easily.

 

[Thetownie]

Homemade venison sausages and game pies.