Will this grind chicken bones?
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Sure, if they've been boiled for awhile. Seems kind of rough on your motor, if they were not boiled enough to be kind of soft. (you are making pet food, aren't you?)
1276479
I'd cook those bones for a couple of hours and then I test them, by trying to cut them (and I mean the heavy long bones) with kitchen shears. If shears will cut them, I would NOT be nervous about asking this grinder to do it. You're going to be standing there, anyhow, turn it OFF if you start to feel nervous about it.
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Betty ,I have never tried that but I woul think no. Whatever is milled must be fairly soft .......tomatoe, boiled potatoes etc. I think you would be much happier with a small hand meat grinder. Here is the least expensive example I found. Starfrit 093347 Manual Meat Grinder
1876438
yes it will grind nuts, be sure to have the plastic lid on since it will grind it as fine as you wish.
231726
Does a great job for grinding meat. Not sure about bones...will possibly dull the blades.
1799327
yes! this works great as a food processor. I've made chicken salad and grinded other foods with no problem
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I have used it for years to grind chicken thighs with bones to make raw cat food. Does not work for bones larger than that though.
809893
Hi Jody...Unfortunately I really can't remember. I made cat food but my cats wouldn't eat it so I had to return the grinder. It's a very good machine and I would assume it would grind the bones but I don't think I tried.
343657
The way it grinds chicken bones so easily, I'm sure it would go right through that paua meat like butter, I made sausage a few weeks ago, was able to grind about 55 pounds of pork in about 21 minutes, very capabile
85517
Yes it will. We used it to grind chicken for a sick puppy and it grinds legs bone and all very well. It ground about 90 pounds of chicken until the puppy was well enough to be put back on regular food.
146332
I do not think this machine is really suited to this purpose. It grinds, but perhaps not for what you are expecting. Personally I use an attachment to my Kitchen Aid Mixer for any grinding of raw meat.
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I have only used it once...grinding wild turkey meat. It worked well and was reasonably easy to clean. For your intended use, I would go up to 1.5 or 2 Hp.
1775941
Hello, I primarily use it to grind chicken breasts, which grind into a nice, clean, burger consistency (has 2 sizes of dies for meat). The product works surprisingly well, is well made and solid, easy to clean, doesn't feel like "cheap" plastic. I just feed the chicken breasts into the hopper (big enough to accept full size breasts), and turn the handle, and it does its thing, hard to believe how much ground meat a single breast makes, you can have pounds of fresh ground chicken in no time. Great buy. Hope this helps.
1861189
Absolutely - it will comfortably grind the coconut for chutney makes it great even if you add chick peas. I make coastal (konkani) coconut recipes with this all the time. This blender grinds it like a stone grinder would.
1316779
Yes, It will grind any meat, and it has several grinding plates to grind from fine to course.
1109231
Hello - I grind whole, raw chicken. Bones, meat, tendons, skin - everything. I chop it into pieces that will fit through the tube. RAW rabbit and turkey bones should be soft enough to put through. You probably know that cooked bones are very hard. I would not grind beef or pork bones in the 1800. Grinding 10-20 pounds of chicken a week since April and this model is still running like new. I hope that helped.
2142719
This grinder is severely under-powered and it can barely process the meat without bones, so I would say no.
1799329
I haven't tried to grind chicken, but it works very well for grinding nuts. I love this blender.