We are passionate about the food that we prepare and eat here at Restaurant Supply. We love it when restaurants take up the farm-to-table cause and create decadent, unique bites. We know that all of the things that you do are for the customers so you can give them the best food possible for the least amount of money.
Many restaurants out there are content to serve pre-packaged meat, French fries, vegetables, and more to their customers. While flash frozen is functional, the real way to elevate a restaurant’s food to its highest standard is to make it fresh. That includes doing as much as possible in-house, like grinding meat.
Thinking about opening a gourmet burger shop? To command those gourmet prices a meat grinder is absolutely necessary. Why?
Your Meat is Fresher – Fresh meat from the butcher tastes better than what you’ll find in your local supermarket. You have control over the time that it was ground. The meat itself doesn’t have the chance to sit on the shelf for days on end which means that your diners can experience flavors that they might not have had in the past.
Your Meat Has Fewer Contaminants – Each moment that your meat stays out on the counter, waiting to be packaged or frozen, it picks up bacteria and other contaminants. In processing plants, the meat from thousands of animals are mixed together to create that ground round or chuck. While many plants have quality standards, the more animals in the mix, the more potential exposure to possibly harmful microorganisms.
More Choice Over the Cuts – When you grind your own meat, you get the choice over what cuts that you want in the mix. You might find that a top sirloin mixed with round might give you the best flavors.
Want Some More Fat? – Instead of the standard that you find in the stores, you can determine the exact percentage of fat that you’re serving your customers. When that fresh taste shines through, you know that you’re serving some of the best meat in the world.
Make Your Own Sausage – The next step that you can take with your meat grinder is making sausage. Take all of those odds and ends that you have in your walk in refrigerator and put them all into one place. Remember that sausage is not limited to merely pork cuts.
When you’re talking about making the best burgers on the planet, it’s time to get a meat grinder so you can make your own patties right in the house. We’ll be talking a little bit more about meat grinders and their uses tomorrow.
