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A meat grinder or meat mincer is a kitchen appliance for fine chopping ('mincing') of, or mixing of raw or cooked meat, fish, vegetables or similar food. It replaces tools like the mincing knife, for example, which has been used to produce minced meat, filling etc. The producer puts the minced food into a funnel, which is placed on the top of the grinder. From there the material goes on a horizontal screw conveyor. This screw conveyor, that can be powered by a hand wheel or an electric motor, squashes and partially mixes the food. At the end of the screw conveyor there is a knife installed directly in front of the fixed hole plate. At this opening the minced meat comes out of the machine. The fineness of the meat depends on the size of the holes of the plate. By changing the hole plate it is also possible to produce breadcrumbs or fill sausage casing. After the drop from the retainer, it is possible to change the hole plate. By removing the fixing screw the grinder can be disassembled completely for cleaning. Besides the domestic manually or motor operated grinders, there are also grinders for butchery (table- or shop-grinders for example) and for the food industry. Some large machines are able to produce several tons per hour. ==History== The first meat grinder was invented in the nineteenth century by a German revolutionist, Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn, also known as Karl Drais. The earliest form of the meat grinder was hand cranked and forced meat into a metal plate which had several small holes, resulting in long, thin strands of meat. As time passed, the hand-cranked machines became powered by electricity. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://best-electric-meat-grinder.bereviews.com/history-of-meat-grinders/ )〕 The electric meat grinders we now know today can process several pounds of meat easily and uniformly. Current models of electric meat grinders have different attachments, such as sausage, kebbe, and juicing attachments which have really broadened the way meat grinders are used.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.meatgrinderreviews.org/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「meat grinder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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