Mincing meat allows you to create some wonderful dishes and doing it yourself opens up the door to a whole new world of textures and flavours in your cooking. They can often be found quite cheap in charity shops and unfortunately are often relegated to ornament status.
Hand mincers are an often overlooked kitchen tool, but they really allow you to take your cooking to the next level and they are so easy to assemble and use. Instead of relying on less imaginative supermarket minced products a hand mincer allows you to alter the ratios of lean meat and fat, to select different and higher quality cuts of meat or even use a mix of different meats such as combining beef and pork for a classic Italian Bolognese, they can even be used for vegetables! Plus the different plates available mean you can decide how course your end product is, so you can choose appropriately for the intended purpose.
In this video, TUBC shows how you assemble a hand mincer so you can get started experimenting with your meat grinding!