How to sharpen knife for the meat grinder

How to sharpen knife for the meat grinder

Meat grinder necessary attribute of any kitchen. Its main purpose is to mill big pieces of meat in small pieces which are called forcemeat. But except meat the normal meat grinder it is possible to grind both onions and carrots, and other fruit and vegetables and even to squeeze out juice. Depending on that what nozzles you have put on outlet pipe of the meat grinder, it is possible to do forcemeat small or to chop meat with large pieces, for example for manti.

It is required to you

  • For sharpening of knife of the meat grinder it will be required to you:
  • - abrasive paper No. 1;
  • - abrasive paper No. 0;
  • - cleaning agent;
  • - water.

Instruction

1. The basic making elements of the normal meat grinder it: the screw by means of which meat suppression is served on knife; crosswise knife; disk with round openings for access of the gained product. When loading meat it begins to move to the receiver under the influence of the screw deep into of the meat grinder, in the receiver meat already begins to be chopped with small pieces due to cutting by its screw. As it has rather keen edges and gap between the screw and the body of the meat grinder very small too. Further meat arrives on knife which rotates along motionless grid with holes. Here what gap between grid and knife depends on that quality of the milled meat. Than sharp there will be knife, that closer it will nestle on grid and more small to chop meat.

2. Disassemble the meat grinder, look whether something has rusted at it. Examine grid and knife if the grid has some jags, then it needs to be ground too. Put on table or any other plain surface abrasive paper with surface No. 1. Pick up knife and begin to drive it sharp surfaces (blades) according to paper, at the same time strongly pressing it. Move go such circular rotations on nazhdachka. Check whether the edges of knives are evened, whether there are they sharp. So sharpen it minutes two. Then put nazhdachka No. 0 and make most too, on it you will grind knife edges to very sharp state.

3. Now take grid also grind it on emery papers, as well as knife, it is possible to sharpen it from two parties, removing all jags and roughnesses. Pick up knife and grid, combine, look whether easily the knife moves along grid, whether at full coincidence of their surfaces at rotation. Now take cleaning agent, wash out carefully knives grid from residues of metal and abrasive stone of paper. Carefully dry, collect the meat grinder, try to grind something. If still the meat grinder grinds very badly then at you the screw has ground off during operation. Find metal washer by the size of rear axle of the screw 1-2 mm thick. Put it on axis, collect the meat grinder, now the knife will nestle more densely on grid and more small to chop your meat!

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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