Kitchen Toys
Can anyone guess what this is?
Hint: its really old and yes, it belongs in the kitchen.
Did you guess before you looked?
Its a hand meat grinder.
And this one is special to me because it has been handed down from my grandmother Carroll … to my mother … and now to me. My Mom gifted me with it when I was home visiting with her in June.
This type of meat grinder was manufactured by James Osborne Spong, who started a small family business in 1856 in London, England to make economic household utensils. Apparently his line of grinders for coffee and meat were of excellent quality, since a quick google search shows that lots of people are still using the original ones. This one is very small …. only a few inches high … but works perfectly.
I have wanted a good hand meat grinder for ages. The only ground meat I can buy here is ground beef … and I would often prefer to cook with other ground meats. I hope to use it in these next days for a dish I am ready to prepare.