Lidl / Silvercrest mincer?

[Donkey Basher]

Anyone got any first hand experience of the above please?

Have got a surplus of Muntie venison in the freezer & getting feed up of stews etc so looking to get a small domestic mincer & keeping my eyes out for these coming into store or possibly just buy online.

Open to recommendations on alternatives but only for domestic use - not looking for one that’ll process heaps of fallow carcasses in one go etc.

TIA.

 

[Jon69]

Tried one - jammed at the slightest bit of sinew, ended up getting launched in the bin mid mincing operation… I’m sure it’s possible they could be workable if you are very careful to trim your venison very carefully and in small pieces but cheap mincers just don’t have the grunt to do the job in my humble opinion

 

[Glevum]

There was a previous thread on these

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Thread 'Lidl mincer?'

Dec 13, 2018

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

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[SikaSeeker]

I had one about 20 years ago, was going fine for about a year. Then while I was using it, the motor blew, it was like a centre fire rifle being discharged in the kitchen. Absolutely deafened and scared the shite out of me.
I know have a Kenwood pro 1600 and it’s flying through stuff!
I used to have an Andrew James mincer and it used to mince everything of a rabbit, apart from its hips. Was very good, unfortunately they don’t make that model anymore

 

[Utectok]

Basically get a decent mincer it will make your life so much easier not mad expensive but 150£ or so or first buy about 6 cheap £40 ones and throw them away like I did ?!

 

[Bugsy]

I’ve had one of theses Caterlite mincers for a while and for the money it’s ok , I’m not putting tons through it for large amounts it would struggle but for family consumption it’s ok .

 

[Howzat]

I have a Lidl mincer, it does all I want, got it free off a pal works OK if you dont overload it, it does go bang now and again , just strip it and replace the blown fuse and of you go

 

[Tazz]

The motors are not designed to deal with sinew such as you will get from Venison, bite the bullet and get a proper one

 

[Crowstalker]

Buy once cry once.

 

[Oh6]

Anyone got any first hand experience of the above please?

Even with the warranty, not worth it, I burnt out a couple of them mincing boned roe shoulders and trimming.

 

[nun_hunter]

I had one about 20 years ago, was going fine for about a year. Then while I was using it, the motor blew, it was like a centre fire rifle being discharged in the kitchen. Absolutely deafened and scared the shite out of me.
I know have a Kenwood pro 1600 and it’s flying through stuff!
I used to have an Andrew James mincer and it used to mince everything of a rabbit, apart from its hips. Was very good, unfortunately they don’t make that model anymore

I have the Andrew James one, bought on eBay as an unwanted wedding gift for £30. I've run chicken carcasses through it with no bother at all and although some venison sinew gets wound around the cutter it never stops and will process 20kg in a session.

 

[tozzybum]

I use the Butchers Sundries 1 from evilbay about £70 .
About 5x better than lidls imho.
Eats what you put through, yes I know 1 day itl pack up but so far so good aft3 years.
Comes with 2 cutters and straps down for cleaning atb.

 

[angusb1]

I use a 1980s Kenwood Chef A901 that you can get for about £80 off eBay. I've had it for about 15 years. I got the A920 mincer attachment for it for about £30 10 years ago. It has a high torque gearbox and I have yet to find some meat I couldn't mince with it. Cheap to replace if it fails but spares are cheap and plentiful. I also have the sausage stuffing attachment that goes on the mincer and that has been great too.

I think it gives much more expensive dedicated mincers a run for their money and there is the added bonus that you can get loads of other attachments for it, plus it's great for making cakes and bread or with the glass liquidiser attachment, soup and cocktails.

 

[Donkey Basher]

I use the Butchers Sundries 1 from evilbay about £70 .
About 5x better than lidls imho.
Eats what you put through, yes I know 1 day itl pack up but so far so good aft3 years.
Comes with 2 cutters and straps down for cleaning atb.

@tozzybum - do you have a link as can’t find this on flea bay & on the butchers sundries site it’s £108 not £70?

 

[tozzybum]

Apologies he's doubled the price since last year. If this helps there's an Andrew James 1 on evilbay (same machine) here the add atb

 

[Donkey Basher]

Thanks @tozzybum - this is early doors for me as far as processing goes so not researched what’s what & found out about same machines different brands etc. Now I know the Andrew James one is the same as the Butchers Sundries one I can look for one of those

Safe to say that I’ll bin the idea of the Lidl one now!

 

[tozzybum]

I did lidls is a jammer with any sinews ,just not got the power. Atb

 

[weblyish]

kenwood chef attachment route is not a bad shout cheap to get old ones off ebay and they work fine

I do a lot of porkfat for salami and it needs plenty muscle so I just kept an eye out for a proper commerial one on ebay local for pickup only and after a few weeks got a beast of a machine for £50 - i know you said you dont want something commercial but it might be cheaper than you expect if you keep your eye out

 

[Ruby Tuesday 2]

I briefly used a lidl one and it was ok if the meat was well trimmed. But the metal was aluminum not stainless and I stupidly put it in the dishwasher and from there on any mince I did had a nice black sheen on it.....

 

[Essexsussex]

I use a 1980s Kenwood Chef A901 that you can get for about £80 off eBay. I've had it for about 15 years. I got the A920 mincer attachment for it for about £30 10 years ago. It has a high torque gearbox and I have yet to find some meat I couldn't mince with it. Cheap to replace if it fails but spares are cheap and plentiful. I also have the sausage stuffing attachment that goes on the mincer and that has been great too.

I think it gives much more expensive dedicated mincers a run for their money and there is the added bonus that you can get loads of other attachments for it, plus it's great for making cakes and bread or with the glass liquidiser attachment, soup and cocktails.

Exactly what I use, they don’t make motors like that in domestic appliances these days! Much better than cheap dedicated mincers