Increase the control over what goes into your food and food costs with a top-quality meat grinder. Whether doing some specialty sausage making on the weekend or grinding up a whole deer at the end of the season, a quality meat grinder helps you create a wide range of meat products. In addition to giving you the ability to grind lesser quality cuts of meat into healthy and tasty ground meat, many meat grinders offer a variety of accessories to help you do much more.

Meat grinders give outdoorsmen the option to process wild game at home, giving you and your family a supply of healthy, low fat, and affordable protein. Processing game at home also allows you to maintain complete control over the food going into the freezer. Home processing lets you know exactly what meat went into the final product, how safely the meat is handled before and during grinding, and exactly what it touched through the whole process.

Meat grinders that accept accessories open up whole new opportunities to do even more with your grinder. Made of metal or plastic, stuffing tubes connect outside your grinder's grinding plates to help you make many different kinds and sizes of link-style sausages as well as stuffed treats such as snack sticks. Many top-quality, high performance meat grinders, like the Cabela's Carnivore Commercial-Grade Meat Grinders, also offer even more accessories that attach to the grinder's drive system for various specialized tasks. From jerky cutters to meat tenderizers to fruit and vegetable strainers to patty makers, a meat grinder with loads of attachment options opens up a wide range of capabilities for home food processors.

Grinders come in a wide range of capacity, power, and capabilities. From smaller, value-priced options whose electric motors are measured in watts to larger-capacity models whose motors are measured in horsepower, you will find a wide range of meat grinder options at Bass Pro Shops.

What are the best meat grinders?

That answer is going to depend on the amount of money and time you wish to invest in grinding. A value model can handle small jobs from time to time in your kitchen, but would be taxed heavily and take a long time to get through a big job like grinding meat from a deer or elk after the hunt. A heavy-duty or Commercial-Grade meat grinder is likely the best choice if you know big grinding jobs are in your future.

How much are meat grinders?

Meat grinders can range from economical models that cost less than $100-$200to powerful Commercial-Grade monsters that cost several hundreds of dollars.

What should I look for in meat grinders?

Power and construction are 2 good places to start. Higher-powered grinders with metal construction usually translate into greater durability and more capability. Some higher-end meat grinders also offer add-on accessories to help you get even more uses out of your purchase.