What’s a Meat Grinder?

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A cutting board is a wooden cutting board used for grinding herbs and other foods such as nuts. Cutting boards have a circular indentation in the middle to help hold chopped items to the edge. A chopping board is usually small and square in shape and is made of hardwood such as maple.

A grinding board can be sold by itself, but most often it is packaged in a set together with a grinding knife. This is because the chopping knife is designed to fit the indentation area in the board. A grinder knife has a curved blade and one or two handles to help work the blade in a slicing motion over the herbs or nuts to be chopped. Some meat grinder knives have substantial handles that protrude above the blade, while others have a more elegant design.

A regular knife and regular cutting board usually don’t work as well for chopping herbs as fine, moist herbs tend to slide off the cutting board, but stick to the knife. There are dual blade grinder knives available, but some cooks find that the ground herbs tend to collect between the two blades. A single-bladed mincer knife used with a mincer board often helps keep herbs from sliding off the board and sticking to the knife.

Chopping is cutting foods into fine, even pieces, and chopping is just dicing even finer. It is often much easier to create even pieces when cutting herbs on a cutting board by moving the grinding knife up and down the walls of the curved indentation on the cutting board than it is with a regular flat cutting board and straight bladed knife. The rubber feet on most grind boards help keep the board stable.

Some people like to use a cutting board rather than a regular camping cutting board. The small size and square shape make it easy to handle in a small space, and the indentation section helps prevent foods from easily falling over the sides. A chopping set and knife set can also make a great gift and many sets are sold in gift boxes and are guaranteed for life.

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