ussr meat grinder

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Meat grinder
The miracle machine made of Kasli cast iron is still too tough. Even today it is kept in almost every home - as a family heirloom. And also in case the food processor breaks down. After all, a manual meat grinder made of cast iron from the Urals, which has recently changed its nineties, is still in the teeth with both cartilage and nuts. Gourmet machine
The first meat grinders entered the Russian market in the second half of the 19th century. These were mainly Swedish, German and American models. And the most famous was the "Ordinary American" machine for chopped cutlets and minced meat: it was she who was recommended as "the best" by Elena Molokhovets in the cult cookbook "A Gift to Young Housewives ...".
This meat grinder was not much different from the one we have known since childhood. It was installed on a table on wide legs or screwed to it with a clamp (clamp). In order for the "cutlet machines" to serve longer, Molokhovets advised to rinse them thoroughly after each use, and "so as not to blunt the knives in vain," cut the meat into smaller pieces. The technical novelty was used by quite wealthy people, because on a national scale, a rare Russian could afford to regularly roll meat into cutlets ...
Before the First World War, an "ordinary American" typewriter cost 4 rubles 25 kopecks. For this money, it was possible to buy 16 kilograms of meat (poods) - about as much a middle-income peasant ate in a year. Their own production of meat grinders in the empire was never established.
The young Soviet government raised the question bluntly: why buy cast iron products abroad? “And so,” wrote the magazine “Krasnaya Panorama”, “a simple Russian worker from the Urals wondered: why can't we start production of meat grinders? the whole secret is in the method of tinning cast iron, which we do not know. "
Beginning in 1926, the Ural foundry workers, whose unsurpassed skill was glorified by Pavel Bazhov in the tale "The Cast Iron Babushka", along with spare parts for tractors, irons and central heating boilers, began to produce meat grinders. Millions of copies! The Kasli model was developed by the sculptor Konstantin Aleksandrovich Klodt, the grand-nephew of Pyotr Karlovich Klodt, the creator of the famous horses on the St. Petersburg Anichkov Bridge. The reared horse became the symbol of Kasli town and the emblem of the Kasli meat grinder. Today, cars from that Klodt series are an antique rarity.