Customer Reviews

Krups 402-70 The Butcher Shop Meat Grinder

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A wonderful grinder for those of you on a tight budget. For those of you making dog food, this grinder easily handles a whole chicken cut up, however, I don't suggest grinding wings with the Krups Butcher Shop Meat Grinder....it will immediately jam up and take forever to unclog. Why do I like it? It breathes through chicken with no problem, does veggies/fruits/boneless meat with nar a sniffle...even handles leafy greens without getting all gummed up. To be a small household grinder, it doesn't take up much room, excellent and light for elderly or otherwise physically handicapped person. Also, its excellent space saver for apt people who want to be able to make their own ground meats, etc. ... takes up little room in or out of the cabinet. I recommend it to everyone.

I've been using the Krups 402-70 grinder for the last 9 months now and it works fine..if you grind good cuts of meat with no fibers. Otherwise with cheaper cuts, the blade gets clogged with the meat fibers pretty much 10 seconds into grinding and untangling them is a pain in the butt. Also, the blade dulled very quickly and is difficult to re-sharpen. One of the most disappointing parts of the grinder is of the two plates with different size holes for the meat to be pushed out. They are not stainless steel, rust easily and produces a funky smell. After I wash these plates I need to dry them right away before they start to rust. If you truly need a meat grinder, look into getting something else. I think once we burn out this one, i'll get something with a little more power than the 150W Krups has to offer.

My husband purchased this for me after hearing me complain about the poor quality - i.e. full of gristle, off odors, and flavorless grocery store ground beef.

It is a struggle to grind any meat with this underpowered, only 150 watts, machine. Every 7-10 minutes I have to stop the machine and remove the screw assembly in order to remove the meat fibers that plug up the perforated force plate. If you have tons of time on your hands this may be the machine for you. Meat is squished through the force plate, not ground, so that you end up with a kind of meat paste. Also, I have to spend a lot of time trimming and cutting up meat into very small pieces so that there is less clogging. Did I mention that it is very noisy? Did I mention that it also grinds the side of the plastic chute that is used for grinding cheese?

I will never purchase a Krups meat grinder again. We're taking our time and evauluating a Northern Tools meat grinder with a .8 hp. Motor to replace the Krups.

I returned the item promptly after the first use:

The 150wt motor whined laboriously, went HOT HOT HOT and nearly died when grinding 2 lbs. lean pork meat with fine disc. It also took forever! When grinding veggies, unless you cut them up really small (much smaller than manufacturer's instruction), it won't grind properly.

The disc rusted after only one-time use.

Other accessories are made of cheap plastic and very thin metal -the ice crusher drum looked too fragile to handle the job although I never tried. The drums all look too fragile, and God knows how soon they'd rust.

The plastic motor case cracked after a 2 feet fall onto hardwood floor and couldn't be fixed.

This is a cheap machine, poorly made.

I don't want to be critical of the last several reviewers, BUT... What kind of a doofus puts tendons into a meat grinder?

ONLY boneless and skinless meat should be put into it! DUHH!

This is perfectly good grinder if you are reasonably skilled using a meat grinder, and if you READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!

Like some other reviewers I too had problems whth some of the connective tissue when grinding pork shoulder for sausage. Unlike others I had the ability to sharpen carbide. I did and it did no good. I substituted the cutter from a broken Rival Model 2275 and all problems disappeared. The grinder went through 30 pounds of pork with ease.

The cutter plates are made of high carbon (very hard) steel and it does rust quickly. I dry mine by hand and rub them with a little olive oil before storing them (I use plastic sandwich bags).

Cleaning is a matter of rinsing off the large debris and putting the parts in the dishwasher. As I said I dry and oil the cutter plates by hand.

I have had very good service from this machine after finding the blade switch trick Gook Luck !

It looks tiny when you put it together, but then you start feeding it and it grinds through a lot of meat like it was a pro from the butcher store! We make our own sausage, and with this grinder it's a breeze. We did 8 lb of country smoked sausage today using this machine. We even used the salad attachment for onions and herbs that goes in the sausage. And did I mention that the sausage funnel attachment works great as well? And finally it's great to have something in the kitchen that isn't made in China. This one is put together in France.

I was excited at the prospect of making my own ground beef. However, ANY meat I've ground comes out like paste with one disk, and too coarse with the other, and only after my patience is entirely worn out fighting the fibers tangled in the blade. And yes, the blade and discs rust immediately, no matter how fast you clean and dry them. But I've never tried another electric meat grinder, so maybe the others work the same?

Assembling the thing is a trial EVERY time, as is cleaning it. Last night I ground chicken for making Won Ton soup. The Won Ton were spectacular, but an hour of work with the grinder to get a cup of ground chicken? Not ever again!

I almost didn't buy this because some of the reviews were so negative, but it turns out to be just what I was looking for to replace a product that has done us good service for 30 years.
(the only reason I wanted to replace it was that it's pedistal base cracked last year and it was a bit wobbly when I was grating stuff)

I didn't buy this for the meat grinder, I bought it for the salad attachments. Many years ago, my mother bought a small appliance called "kitchenworks", and this product is certainly an exact duplicate.

Some reviewers here thought the grating/slicing drums were a bit flimsy, but I compared them to my old product and they are the exact same weight and temperance as my current product, so I expect them to hold on for as many years. As for the comments on the meat grinding attachment rusting, I would have to say that these attachements are NOT stainless steel, so they should be towel dried after cleaning, rather than left to air dry in a dish drainer.

As a whole, this product is a good buy, even if, like me, you never use it for anything other than grating veggies and cheese.

Very good grinder. I grind most of my meat in a commercial grinder and needed a small unit for small jobs. I grind about 40 lbs of meat during late hunting season and this works fine for me. I can double grind about 20 lbs of venison in 25 min. which includes cutting the meat to fit the feeder.