Saw a butcher in Austin using a specific trick for cleaning their grinder

They run a piece of stale bread through it after the meat to push everything out clean. Anyone else use something besides bread for this?

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amyc226mo ago

Why waste food when you can just use a grinder brush?

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aarons366mo ago

Seriously though, is cleaning a grinder that big of a deal? A brush takes like 30 seconds and you're not throwing out a perfectly good potato or a slice of bread. Seems like solving a problem that doesn't really exist.

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vale196mo ago

Read about a deli that uses a small piece of potato instead of bread. The starch helps clean out the fat and bits, and you can see when it comes out clean. Seems like a solid trick if you're out of old bread. Might even work better with the potato's texture pushing everything through.

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