Anatole Commercial Meat Grinder, 1.3HP 950W

The Anatole Electric Meat Grinder is the eighth pick in this guide and the most expensive machine in it, at £259.99 — more than twice the £109.99 of the AAOBOSI further up the list. It is also the one listing here whose headline power figure survives checking. The motor bullet reads "1.3HP 950W Pure Copper Motor", and 1.3 horsepower converts to roughly 970W, so the two numbers inside that single claim land within about 2% of each other. The model number is given as 950W and the specification table gives 950 watts as well. That is the opposite of the peak-versus-rated gap running through the rest of this guide, and its voltage is listed at 220 volts rather than the 120 volts shown on three other listings.

The rest of the fiche is more mixed. The title and style name say "Commercial" and "Heavy Duty", and the listing says the machine suits home, restaurant and hotel use — yet the item weight is 2.5 kg and the capacity is also listed as 2.5 kg, the same number used twice for two different things. A rating of 4.1 from 99 reviews looks solid until you read the split: 64 of those 99 are five stars, but 11 are one star and 7 are two, so around one buyer in five scored it at the bottom end. The parts list is generous on paper — 2 cross blades, 4 grinding plates and 4 sausage stuffers — and the dishwasher-safe claim covers the blades, plates and feed tray only, with the auger, food outlet and fixing nut flagged for hand washing.

Everything on this page comes from the Amazon listing for this Anatole model; we have not tested the machine ourselves.