Hi guys,
I'm new to the forum, but I have been reading your old posts for some time now. I'm looking for a new meat grinder to replace my Kenwood MG510. The Kenwood was extremely noisy, and not that great machine overall. It was completely destroyed when I washed it in dishwasher, and all the "aluminum" parts turned to a horrible mess of black oxide that was impossible to wash away.
For a while I considered purchasing a food grinder attachment for my KitchenAid stand mixer, but now I'm leaning towards a prosumer/light professional model as I hate mediocre products.
I live in Finland, and many hunters use Leonardi grinders to process meat from large moose carcasses. It's surprisingly difficult to find detailed information about these Fabio Leonardi meat grinders even though there are a lot of online retailers. Nobody really goes into deep detail. I'm especially interested in the "Hunger system" which cuts the meat twice in one pass. There is one attachment TC 22 Hunger / Hungher(?) that supposedly has this technology, but I can't find any detailed description what it really does compared to other models.
You can find a Leonardi catalog (from 2003?) at https://www.google.fi/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.ua.prom.st%2F145010_leonardi.pdf&ei=RYrBUvXRPMGT4ATPw4DoBw&usg=AFQjCNEpbkSvDOBoYRlKaMJd2sznGztQqA&sig2=xRgJCRL9HWQVmuZoPQt6kg&bvm=bv.58187178,d.bGE
Now to my question in the subject: Do you know who makes LEM meat grinders? LEM seems to be a well known brand, but to me they look like Leonardi products. Can anybody confirm this?
LEM advertises the Big Bite technology. Have they invedted this, or is it something that is standard also in Leonardi grinders? LEM sells Big Bite upgrade kits, would their Big Bite auger be a drop-in replacement for a Leonardi grinder?
I'm mostly asking this because Leonardi products are easily available to me here in Europe whereas LEM is a US product with wrong voltage.
Thanks in advance & Happy New Year!