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Perhaps the kitchen gadget collecting has gone too far. I'm sitting here watching the Alton Brown episode on meatballs, and there's a brief digression on the methods one might use to grind the meat for the meatballs, if one's butcher isn't willing to grind lamb for you. He mentioned the KitchenAid attachment, and then said "I prefer the manual method", and holds up a big cast-iron meat grinder. As is my habit when Alton mentions a kitchen gadget I already have, I say "I have that!". (When he mentions an interesting one I don't have - which is very rare - I say "I want that!" but that's another story) At this point, my dear husband is like, "What the fuck? We have a meat grinder?" And I'm like, of course we do, didn't you realize this? This goes on for like 5 minutes before I finally just decide to prove it.

Now, admittedly, I haven't *used* the meat grinder - in fact it hadn't been taken out of the box...  But I was able to go over to the cabinet and pull out this:



This mystified said husband, who had completely forgotten I bought the grinder (impulse buy at a kitchen-store-going-out-of-business sale a few years ago, got 2 nice knives, the grinder and some random other stuff for <$100). Perhaps I really do have too much kitchen stuff though... (on the other hand, there shall be sausages for feast come July!). Still, I pulled this out from behind the also-rarely-used pasta machine...