I find old hand cranked meat grinders in good working order quite often in antique/junk stores, $10 or so. Spend a couple weekends visiting those shops and you'll run across one. In the meantime, use the food processor?

Here ya go!

Here is a link that might be useful: meat grinder

Love it, the grinder is 9.95 but shipping is 15.95, lol

If all you plan on doing is grinding up a liver pate now and then all you need is another inexpensive hand crank grinder.

But do you consume hamburger? Do you like sausage patties?
A motorized grinder will take a on sale chuck roast and make really good burger in about 5 minutes and is no harder to clear and clean than the hand cranked one.

Even when a type of roast is on sale that has little fat I just ask the butcher and they give me all the fat i need.

A decent, entry level motorized grinder with three dies and sausage horns runs in and around $100 up here. I'm certain your selection and price would be better.

Mom made "chopped liver" with one of these. Ours is red.

Here is a link that might be useful: suction grinder

I still have one of those old clamp on the table type metal grinders, mine came from Northern Tool, I think, but I've seen them at the Evil Empire and at our local Meijer's, so I know they're available cheaply and without shipping.

Annie

Around here even the hardware store carries them, so should be pretty easy to find locally. I too have seen them often at flea markets and thrift stores. Bought my current one for two dollars about fifteen years ago.

Thanks for the ideas but where I live, central America, those old type kind are not available. I search for videos of how to make pate, and one showed using food processor the other one used blender. Anyone have an opinion which one would be better suited? Both would be available where I live.
The other thing they do not sell here, is coffee grinder. We have our little coffee plantation and I wanted to try if the coffee is drinkable. Would either of those, blender or food processor, be able to grind coffee. Would be nice, if I could get two ... with one... :)

If I were going to choose one for pate, I'd go with the food processor. You can grind coffee with either one, it's not optimal, LOL, but it's possible!

Annie

Yes, food processor for sure. I've made it in there before. I often grind up meat in mine, cooked and uncooked. To me, the blender is just too hard to control, with it chopping the bottom first and such. The food processor you can just pulse and pulse until you get what you want.

Thanks.
Another question. I have never had a food processor. I know one manufacturer available here is Black and Decker, not known for high quality, but what can I do. There are probably one or more others available, but not near as much choice as US. Now my question - what features, characteristics should I look for? Here you cannot buy something, see if you like it and if not, take it back. You buy it, you are stuck with it, so I need to make sure what ever I buy will be the best in my limited options I have.

Oh dear, I guess the first thing I'd do is make sure it's big enough. Many have bowls that are too small to really use effectively.

I don't suppose Amazon ships there, does it? Sigh.

Annie

Nope, nothing can be reliably shipped and shipping is very, very expensive, probably much more than the cost of the food processor :-/ LOL

Food processors are useful for chopping, grating, and slicing larger quantities of food very quickly. For small quantities or very precise cutting, a knife is better. They are also useful for making emulsions like mayonnaise or aioli, though again if you are only making a small quantity, a whisk works fine. Some people use them to knead dough, I've never tried that.

For turning cuts of meat into ground meat (e.g. hamburger), the food processor works fine but you have be careful not to over-process, or the meat will be cut too finely and become paste, without texture. For pate, perhaps a paste is what you'd want?

Many companies make food processors today. Testing by Cook's Illustrated concludes that KitchenAid and Cuisinart are the best ones, by quite a margin. Ideally, you want a model where the bowl is located over the motor base and driven directly off the motor's shaft, rather than the type where the bowl is located next to the motor and driven via a belt that can slip. The lower chopper blade should be very close (In case you run across a used Cuisinart, here is a little history. The food processor was invented by Robot Coupe in France, and that company still makes the best food processors for commercial (restaurant) use, but they are bulky and very expensive. In the US, home food processors were popularized in the 1970's by Cuisinart, who started out importing scaled-down Robot Coupes. The 1970's Cuisinarts, the "CFP" models, say "Made by Robot Coupe" on the bottom. In the UK, the early home food processors were badged Magmix, but were also made by Robot Coupe. In the 1980's, Cuisinart moved production to Japan with the "DLC" models. I'm told the Japanese-made DLC Cusinarts are the best. These are easily available on eBay in the US, and the accessories are plentiful and not expensive. Sometime in the 1990's, Cuisinart moved production to China.

Where are you located? Is it practical for you to buy a used Cuisinart DLC from eBay and have it shipped?

Thanks for excellent pointers. We tried ordering something from eBay and are still waiting for delivery, more than 6 months later LOL
Next time we are in town, I will look what is available and either buy or write down to models and do some more research. My pate is almost gone, I have start making new one, so need a solutions soon :)

I will also tell you that a food processor makes a great smooth hummus, much better than my blender, and you can also use it to make dough, so it's a multi-use appliance.

My KitchenAid is a great food processor and customer service was excellent. I use it to grind pork for Italian sausage pretty regularly, I also season my own sausage, I don't like most of the store bought stuff.

Annie