Product Description

Munchkin Baby Food Grinder Know exactly what goes into your baby's food with the Munchkin Baby Food Grinder. Make it all natural - just fill the grinder with everything your baby needs and loves, grind, and serve. Quick, easy, and compact, this product is great for travel and requires no batteries. Instructions and recipe booklet included!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1866 in Baby Product
• Brand: Munchkin
• Model: 13701
• Released on: 2006-06-01
• Dimensions: 4.10" h x 6.10" w x 8.90" l, .35 pounds

Features

• Makes homemade baby food � at home or on the go!
• Expands food choices beyond what's offered in jars
• No batteries or electricity needed
• Replaces expensive commercial baby food
• Ideal for 6+ months

From the Manufacturer
An easy-to-use, portable food grinder that turns any food into baby food in seconds.

Customer Reviews

Requires two-man operation, impossible to clean
This grinder is difficult to use. First, you need to assemble it and then load in the food to be ground, then put the grinding part on top and twist it to secure it on the chute. If your food is too tough, the grinder doesn't do anything, and any force you might use to press down on the grinder may result in the grate popping off and the food flying everywhere. My husband and I tried to use it on meat, which required one of us to push down, and the other to turn the grinder. Once you've done that, then the instructions say to simply remove the grinding plate (grate) and the handle. The grinding plate is impossible to remove as the force of turning and pressing down on it makes it screwed in so tight, you can't remove the grate unless you use an icepick or the tine of a metal fork to loosen it. The handle to turn the grinder is very small and hard to use. Your hand gets really tired and sore.

We discovered that putting the metal blade on upside down (with the flat part not against the grate) did a better job of moving the food upwards to the grate.

Also, if your food is overly moist or wet, the grinder leaks at the bottom.

I must also mention that there are a lot of parts to wash and some are small, they sometimes get lost in the sink or drying rack.

I believe Kidco has a manual grinder too, that has a bigger handle. We haven't tried it since we gave up on manual grinders. I also tried the Bella Cucina (like the Magic Bullet), which was the worst thing ever as plastic shavings from the lid went into the food from the edge of the cup. Each time you screw on the lid, the sharp lip of the cup would create little shavings from the lid (which is colored plastic) that sometimes fell into the ground up food.

I ended up getting a Cuisinart SmartStick with the chopper bowl accessory, and that worked fine. I also have the Kitchenaid stand mixer and had the food grinder attachment as a gift. We used that it grind mass quantities of meat that we froze so that we would have meat on hand. We would grind one whole rotisserie chicken (deboned) twice, and then package the loosely ground chicken in ziploc bags and freeze them. Then we would simply take one bag out and leave it in the fridge to thaw so she would have some meat to mix with soft cooked veggies. Any parent knows how difficult it is to ensure your baby gets the right amount of protein each day.

Too Difficult to Use, Clean
The small parts are too difficult to use and clean, and the grinder only works if the food is **very soft** (already soft enough to feed in small bites to our 6-9 month old) or if you push down on the top cylinder *very hard*. I could not make it work. Seems like the force I had to put on it just pushed the food through the grate--I couldn't tell that rotating the grinder did anything useful. One of the wand-style food blenders which comes with a mini chopper did the trick for us.

Not easy at all!
This product was very difficult to use. You have to hold it in place while trying to push food up through the grater and turn the handle at the same time, more like a 2 person job. It didn't seem to me that the blades that rotated when you turned the handle did much to help grind the food. Food only seemed to be mushed up through the grater holes, and harder solid foods were extremely difficult to grind. It made more of a mess than anything else, and was even hard to clean. Hard to take apart and food stuck in the holes of the grater. I spent $10 on a mini food processor and that worked ten thousand times better.