What are must have’s for processing your own meat?

Quality grinder and a vacuum sealer will get the job done. I stuff with my grinder as I have a foot pedal. Makes it a One man job. I plan to add a cutlet machine at some point

Sausage stuffer! Screw doing that with a grinder attachment.
Also, plenty of plastic bins.

I went through 3 large pork butts that I trimmed and cut up in chunks for grinding yesterday. I used a hand cranked #10 LEM grinder and got 25 lbs. of pork ground up in about 1/2 hours time.

Then after separating it in the size batches I wanted, I seasoned the meat to make 5 lbs. of hot, 10 lbs. of green onion and 10 lbs. of andouille.

Then I cased them up using my designated stuffer. Later today I will use the vacuum sealer to bag up the sausage after I smoke the andouille and put it away in my freezer. My stuffer holds 5 lbs. of product at a time and is much easier than using the grinder with the stuffer attachments. I did that once and said hell no, never again and bought a stuffer. Way faster and cleaner.

A good thing to have to break down the meat is good, sharp knives and a good meat saw if getting into butchering your own meat.

Shot a young doe last week. Iced it for a few days. Deboned everything. Brought to meat market. Had it ground x2. Vacuumed sealed for me. 30# of ground meat. Pure deer. 32$ and the cost of a bullet. Organic grass fed ground meat at the Walmart yesterday was 6$ a pound. No need to mix if you shoot the right deer. Spaghetti. Chili. Hamburger helper. Tacos. But I’m feeding kids who Are picky.