Can anyone help please? I recently bought a mincer - the traditional, cast-iron type. Used it once, washed it, dried it thoroughly - (I thought ???) - just got it out and there's rust in all the holes - (the ones the meat etc. gets pushed through!) - is there anything I can do or is it beyond hope?
happened to me once as well - if there are no plastic bits on it I would suggest washing it again and using a paintbrush or similar coat finely with olive oil and heat in the oven, just like you would 'prime' a cast iron frying pan - if there are plastic bits on it you could still wash again and brush on oil but you'll have to do this every time you wash it
Or get some fine wire wool and twist into little sticks and rotate in the holes until rust has gone.
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I had the same thing happen to mine. I love it though, and have come up with a strategy which seems to work, at least nobody has snuffed it yet...
Wash it carefully and dry as much as you can. Get oil on to as much of the surface as possible, put in the oven for a while. When you want to use it put a load of stale bread in a bowl, add some oil and mince. Throw away bread, then mince the meat.
My logic is that the bread will touch all the bits that the meat will, so any nasties will have been killed by the heat of the oven and any rust will have gone with the bread.
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Whoo hoo, a mincer with a rusty hole! How very dare you.
Haha - Nice one Ace! It's not every day you get to shove meat into a rusty mincer!
Have taken all the above advice! Gave it another good wash, did the wire wool bit, painted it in oil (!), cooked the cookable bits and shoved oily, stale bread through it. Mincer looks as good as new. I'm so pleased. Thank you all very much. xxx
( :o and surprised at Ollie. :o but not surprised at Ace - what else do you expect from a pink pully wearer?)