will it grind small bones such as chicken?
1036896
Yes. It grinds the bones in chicken legs and quarters with no problems at all.
1109231
Hello - I grind whole, raw chicken. Bones, meat, tendons, skin - everything. I chop it into pieces that will fit through the tube. RAW rabbit and turkey bones should be soft enough to put through. You probably know that cooked bones are very hard. I would not grind beef or pork bones in the 1800. Grinding 10-20 pounds of chicken a week since April and this model is still running like new. I hope that helped.
2013028
I never tryed to grind poltry bones, it can damage the Sharp of the blades, if you are gonna grind bones i recomend to cook bones previously until them become smoth!! good luck buddy! :)
14685
It does not come with the 220v plugin not sure if there is an option for that through the vendor. I grind chicken necks which have little bone mostly cartilage. I would not recommend putting big bones like legs through it. I feel that the chicken backs would be ok, but would be pushing its abilities. If you want to do larger bones I would suggest the LEM industrial size I have a friend that has one and it has a ton of power. On the down side the ton of power also comes a very large system that weighs about 75 lbs. I had used it once and it ground 40 lbs of chicken necks in about 20 min.
1721698
Yes, grinds very well. Grinds egg shells to fragments, I estimate them to be approx. 5mms.
413509
Probably not. This works best on soft foods. I've used other similar handheld grinders and they're all pretty much the same.
2266684
I have used it to grind chicken and turkey, with bones, to make raw pet food. No problems whatsoever! I am sure it will do the job for you!
1103245
It will grind coarse if you don't grind too long.. Not sure why the other reviewer said no. It even says so in the instructions.
1870484
We have had ours for months and it is used twice a week grinding chicken and chicken bones for cat food and we haven't had a problem.
1277192
It's not big enough for a whole chicken but if you have pieces of chicken, yes.
1799327
yes! this works great as a food processor. I've made chicken salad and grinded other foods with no problem
1590625
I want to grind meat for my cats, and cats don't really like whole raw meaty bones (I bake for them grain-free catnip treats for teeth cleaning). So, I'm also looking then for a grinder that will allow me to grind both meat and bone. Right now my local butcher does it for me, but it's an extra $1/lb for the grinding service... a grinder will pay its own way in just a few months. I did a search of the site and the only grinder on Amazon with reviews that mentioned grinding raw bones was this one - Northern Industrial #12 Electric Meat Grinder. Hope that helps anyone looking at this thread.
2213235
This Rikon saw would cut meat with bones with the blade that comes with it. All bones would need to be removed before putting in the grinder.
1775941
Hello, I primarily use it to grind chicken breasts, which grind into a nice, clean, burger consistency (has 2 sizes of dies for meat). The product works surprisingly well, is well made and solid, easy to clean, doesn't feel like "cheap" plastic. I just feed the chicken breasts into the hopper (big enough to accept full size breasts), and turn the handle, and it does its thing, hard to believe how much ground meat a single breast makes, you can have pounds of fresh ground chicken in no time. Great buy. Hope this helps.
29440
If you broke them up into smaller pieces it might. I don't think it will grind them as fine as you'd want. It's not going to be powder.
1784279
I have only used it once...grinding wild turkey meat. It worked well and was reasonably easy to clean. For your intended use, I would go up to 1.5 or 2 Hp.
1722789
I'd say many or most grinders can grind chicken & rabbit bones with meat. I do so for making cat food. This one should do. I've talked to people that say they grind chicken bones very well even tho the instructions advise against it. Turkey bones is harder to do, and forget beef bones unless you have a big expensive unit.