Build a Food Grinder Stand

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on January 1, 1978
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Follow these step-by-step instructions to learn how to build a food grinder stand.

This MOTHER’s mini-project shows you how to build a food grinder stand to stabilize your food grinder on the table.

How to Build a Food Grinder Stand

Although it’s dang near impossible to run a real do-it-yourself kitchen without frequent recourse to a food grinder . . . the actual use of one of the implements, more times than not, is a royal pain. For at least two reasons:

First, these hand-cranked appliances almost always have to be clamped to something before you can use them. And the only “something” that most of us can clamp a grinder to without worrying about the resulting scars is generally a bench out in the shop or on the back porch somewhere. Which is awkward. And, sometimes, dirty.

Second, every dad-ratted food grinder in the world
— it seems — has been cleverly designed so that its delivery spout just isn’t quite high enough off the table for your favorite bowl to slide under. Right? Right. And besides that, have you ever tried to process something juicy — such as apples —

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