Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?
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I haven’t tried my bowl chopper to make summer sausage, but I use it all the time to make snack sticks.
It will certainly work for summer sausage but just check your emulsion often while chopping. If you chop too long you may lose some particle definition in the meat mix and end up with a product that no longer resembles summer sausage.
My chopper bowl is about 15" and only can process a few pounds of meat at one time. Not a problem, just takes a little longer.
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processhead - What type of Bowl Chopper do you have?
Pivodog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
processhead - What type of Bowl Chopper do you have?
It is an ancient Hobart combination #12 grinder/ “14 bowl chopper. I think I said 18” earlier, but I checked and it is actually 14".
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Pivodog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
nice! I’ve got the next-gen Hobart
That should be a nice machine. Pictures?
Paul
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Pivodog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
nice! I’ve got the next-gen Hobart
That should be a nice machine. Pictures?
processhead Here you, I just got it a couple of months ago.
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processhead Here you, I just got it a couple of months ago.
Pivodog
That looks like a fine machine. Dare I ask what it set you back? -
Pivodog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
processhead - What type of Bowl Chopper do you have?
It is an ancient Hobart combination #12 grinder/ “14 bowl chopper. I think I said 18” earlier, but I checked and it is actually 14".
processhead That setup looks cool. I bet it has a lot of stories to tell. Some of that older equipment is built to work for several lifetimes.
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processhead That setup looks cool. I bet it has a lot of stories to tell. Some of that older equipment is built to work for several lifetimes.
YooperDog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
processhead That setup looks cool. I bet it has a lot of stories to tell. Some of that older equipment is built to work for several lifetimes.
If you think back 50-60 years ago, equipment like this was often in nearly daily use in small stores and restaurants. The only reason a lot of it got retired was because of sanitary regulations and requirements for businesses to go to stainless equipment.
The meat contact surfaces on the grinder head and chopper bowl are all tin plated cast iron to minimize rust. The only stainless parts are the chopper knives. Everything gets coated with white oil after washdown.
I have no doubt this machine will be grinding and chopping great stuff long after I have departed this world.
Paul
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YooperDog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
processhead That setup looks cool. I bet it has a lot of stories to tell. Some of that older equipment is built to work for several lifetimes.
If you think back 50-60 years ago, equipment like this was often in nearly daily use in small stores and restaurants. The only reason a lot of it got retired was because of sanitary regulations and requirements for businesses to go to stainless equipment.
The meat contact surfaces on the grinder head and chopper bowl are all tin plated cast iron to minimize rust. The only stainless parts are the chopper knives. Everything gets coated with white oil after washdown.
I have no doubt this machine will be grinding and chopping great stuff long after I have departed this world.
processhead I am keeping an eye open for a bowl chopper, just because. I remember back when I was younger with all the small mom and pop grocery stores and meat markets and seeing all that style equipment behind the counter. My family had an old Hobart grinder. That there is a piece of history
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processhead Here you, I just got it a couple of months ago.
Pivodog used to use a chopper just like that at the grocery store back in high school. It was the 90s,but we still made our own salads for the salad cases, etc and we used this all the time.
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processhead I am keeping an eye open for a bowl chopper, just because. I remember back when I was younger with all the small mom and pop grocery stores and meat markets and seeing all that style equipment behind the counter. My family had an old Hobart grinder. That there is a piece of history
YooperDog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
processhead I am keeping an eye open for a bowl chopper, just because. I remember back when I was younger with all the small mom and pop grocery stores and meat markets and seeing all that style equipment behind the counter. My family had an old Hobart grinder. That there is a piece of history
This is my Grandpa in his butcher shop in 1943. Not much meat to be found during war rationing. You can see his old grinder in the background.
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Pivodog
That looks like a fine machine. Dare I ask what it set you back?processhead I paid $1100.00 for it from a local used restaurant equipment store. It was pretty dirty when I got it. I ended up taking apart the bottom plate to remove all of the old crap and polished it up. It looks really nice now. I also replaced the blades and locking collar and nut. I’ve been mainly making frankfurters with it along with a loaf of Leberkasse.
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Pivodog used to use a chopper just like that at the grocery store back in high school. It was the 90s,but we still made our own salads for the salad cases, etc and we used this all the time.
Midwest_kc said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
chopp
It’s a great piece of equipment!
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processhead I am keeping an eye open for a bowl chopper, just because. I remember back when I was younger with all the small mom and pop grocery stores and meat markets and seeing all that style equipment behind the counter. My family had an old Hobart grinder. That there is a piece of history
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Midwest_kc said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
chopp
It’s a great piece of equipment!
Pivodog said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
Midwest_kc said in Making Summer Sausage with a Bowl Chopper?:
chopp
It’s a great piece of equipment!
Did it come with the grinder head too?
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The grinder heads show up on the second hand market from time to time. If you don’t already have a grinder, I would be looking to score one.
You did well.
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processhead I paid $1100.00 for it from a local used restaurant equipment store. It was pretty dirty when I got it. I ended up taking apart the bottom plate to remove all of the old crap and polished it up. It looks really nice now. I also replaced the blades and locking collar and nut. I’ve been mainly making frankfurters with it along with a loaf of Leberkasse.
Pivodog is yours the 84145 or 84186?
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