STX Intl Megaforce 3000 Air Cooled Powerful Electric Meat Grinder, 3 Speed, Sausage Stuffer & More

I ran this non stop for 8 hours and it didn't flinch. Pushing meat through the whole time. I highly recommend this product.

It worked very well Did not have to worry about sinew.

Great quality for price. Easy to assemble and clean. Little loud but nothing terrible

used it for a week, for grinding beef, so far so good. Parts are clean, there was no black grease coming out with meat (which I was concerned the most about, to be honest). Fast and reliable. I am looking forward to see how it will perform over the years.

I have decided that the "mass produced" ground beef, pork etc. that comes from the scraps of many animals is not what I want to eat. Too many chances for contamination. I bought this grinder so I can grind my own meat from a single roast that came from one animal. I was very pleased with the power and speed of this machine. Clean up was simple, but do follow the washing instructions. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

very fast very powerful

powerful enough to get job done

Does a good job grinding semi frozen meats. Got this to make venison sausage in 2019. Grinding the meat was easy. I found that cubes worked better than strips. With cubes i could regulate how much meat went into the chute at any time. With strips, once it started down the chute it all went at once and the motor had to work harder to continue grinding. Thought I was gonna pop a circuit breaker in my kitchen. I agree with the other review about making sausage being hard because the pusher is tapered in the chute. The ground meat squirts back up the chute as you push, and getting the pusher out took some pulling as vacuum held it in. When first assembled, there was a gap between the cast aluminum chute and the motor housing. When i tried grinding, the chute kept slipping out of the notches in the pastic bearing on the motor. Thought i was gonna have to return it, but the third time i pushed it back into place it mated all the way flush with the motor and worked fine after that. Not sure why it didnt mate at first. Overall I’m pleased with the performance and made over 100 polish deer sausages in 6 hours. Only thing wrong is the tapered feed chute and pusher. I’ll make a larger one out of wood to compensate, so should not be an issue next time, hopefully. A non-tapered chute would fix this issue. Highly recommend casings that are preloaded onto a tube and not natural hog. Hog casings smell so bad my wife was gagging at the sink and it took more time to thread the casings onto the tube than it did to grind and fill them. Oh yeah, one last thing; instructions warn about storing the blades and plates separately to prevent discoloration of the metal. The alloy used for the plates is prone to turn black if in contact with other metals, similar to silver tarnishing. I learned the hard way that the stainless kitchen sink will also turn the plates black. Doesnt affect the performance, just warning you to ALWAYS PUT THE PLATES ON A PLASTIC SURFACE after use and store in a ziplock bag after washing.

a bit of a let down, expected it to be bigger and more "industrial"

I'm only going to give this machine a 2 star rating even though it is a good grinder. I've had this machine now for about 2 weeks and laboriously have made about 15 pounds of sausages. First it's very noisy and I wear hearing protection (ear muffs) while using it as it could cause permanent hearing damage if used for long periods of time. Once the meat has been ground its best to bring the meat temperature to nearly freezing otherwise it is very difficult to load ground meat through the machine to make sausages. The plunger is undersized and designed poorly, I could come up with a better design. When trying to push the ground meat with the plunger the meat just keeps squirting back up around the plunger and when pulling the plunger back out it creates suction now sucking out any meat below it while also lifting the machine of the countertop. Now you have a void creating an air lock when trying to introduce more meat. It is a good grinder and if that's all I was going to use it for I'd give it a 4 star rating.