What happened was that some breadcrumbs came out the end (woo!) and then the motor started making a sullen growling noise and clearly not actually turning round (boo!).
What had happened internally is that fresh bread is much more compressible than meat. All the bread I'd fed into the grinder had become very compressed against the screen at the end, and completely stuck the works solid. I managed to wrench the screen out of the grinder with pliers, and then spent half an hour or so with a kitchen knife slowly chipping away at the really quite surprisingly solid substance my ground bread had turned into until I could finally free everything up.
On the plus side the grinder is made of extremely solid metal and hasn't sustained any damage, as far as I can tell.
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Date: 2012-10-09 09:56 am (UTC)What happened was that some breadcrumbs came out the end (woo!) and then the motor started making a sullen growling noise and clearly not actually turning round (boo!).
What had happened internally is that fresh bread is much more compressible than meat. All the bread I'd fed into the grinder had become very compressed against the screen at the end, and completely stuck the works solid. I managed to wrench the screen out of the grinder with pliers, and then spent half an hour or so with a kitchen knife slowly chipping away at the really quite surprisingly solid substance my ground bread had turned into until I could finally free everything up.
On the plus side the grinder is made of extremely solid metal and hasn't sustained any damage, as far as I can tell.