Sausage stuffer and grinder reccs.

[Rjsand70]

I’m wanting to process a few does a year and start feeding my family at least some wild game in form of things we can’t buy raw snack sticks hotdogs etc.

Not a commercial operation, not gonna go nuts with it just could be nice to have especially when I get to go kill an elk.

I’m looking for a reasonable and useful meat grinder and sausage stuffer I don’t want junk just something good enough that it won’t make me hate doing it

 

[Blind Squirrel]

I’m wanting to process a few does a year and start feeding my family at least some wild game in form of things we can’t buy raw snack sticks hotdogs etc.

Not a commercial operation, not gonna go nuts with it just could be nice to have especially when I get to go kill an elk.

I’m looking for a reasonable and useful meat grinder and sausage stuffer I don’t want junk just something good enough that it won’t make me hate doing it

Following, came here looking for this same info.

 

[rem.ostrem]

For meat grinders, I would go with MEAT! grinders. I have the 1 HP grinder and it eats deer meat like crazy. Extremely well built and good warranty.
I have a LEM 5# sausage stuffer that works well for me. I'd like to upgrade to a slightly bigger stuffer someday but this works, you just have to take breaks to refill the hopper.
You could stuff right out of the grinder but I have a dedicated stuffer due to the fact that I almost never grind meat and make stuff at the same time. I also like to add things to summer sausage like cheese or peppers and a grinder wouldn't be the best for that.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

MEAT grinder works well...dont waste your time with a 5lb stuffer, it works but sucks to have to keep reloading it...get a 10lb...a summer sausage is almost 3lbs..so you get the picture.

 

[Pickettpuncher]

I have a 15 pound Hakka bros stuffer that works great. I also have an LEM #8 grinder. I should have went up a size.

 

[keller]

Sign up for lem email they have been having 20% off sales every month

 

[ResearchinStuff]

I highly recommend a LEM double grind grinder, #8 is ok for just a couple of deer a year, if you will be doing a bunch of deer or an elk, at least a #12. MEAT is often on sale cheaper, but to my knowledge does not give you a double grind option.

i've been home butchering for a long time and just got into sausage making this fall. the 5# LEM stuffer works. refilling it takes a little bit of time. All of the cabelas sausage seasoning kits are based on 25# batches, so definitely get something that works with 25# increments, whether that's a 5# or a 25# stuffer. the intermediate sizes are going to leave you pushing out a bunch of air at some point.

Many of the sausages/snack stick kits also require a smoker, only a few are for raw sausages (breakfast sausage, italian, bratwurst).

 

[BBob]

I have a 15 pound Hakka bros stuffer that works great. I also have an LEM #8 grinder. I should have went up a size.

Will that 15lb stuffer do meat sticks? Most 15lb stuffers won’t do it. I use a LEM 10lb for that reason. Too large of a piston gets too hard to try to stuff small diameter casings.

In a grinder I’d look at a LEM dual grind in size 12 minimum. I have an 8 for small jobs and it’s great but I’d jump up to a 12 if doing it again. I have a 22 dual grind as well and it’s fantastic for larger jobs. Really fast and the dual grind is a time saver in any size machine.

I’ll second the idea of signing up for LEM sales. Occasionally they’ll have refurbished sales that can save you a lot of you are patient. All of my LEM machines are refurbs, essentially new. All I found was the packaging looks like it made several trips after a return with the machines looking unused.