One thing, don't EVER stick your hand in the chute. I've seen many a meatcutter lose 1-5 fingers/thumb hurrying and instead of a stomper that can be used, they use their fist thinking it won't 'catch'. But, the fingers fly apart in it and grind up the whole hand until you turn it off. PLEASE get a stomper for it and save your fingers, and never ever try to clear a clump or jam with a slender tool. That can not only ruin the grinder, it can cause a flying projectile into someone's eye or face. Turn the grinder off, unplug it, then tear it apart and clear it, put it back together, then resume. It is the ONLY way to do it; safely. It takes ½ of 1 second to lose fingers; I've witnessed it many times. You get the hand out and it's a bloody stump. Hopefully you pass out, but that just makes it all the more difficult to get it out, you slumped over the grinder, dead weight.
