Whether you are a technician in a food factory, a central kitchen operator, or a housewife, you may need a machine when making meat food, a meat cutting machine, or a meat slicer. However, when you choose it from the Internet or the market, you will not know how to choose, because there are countless meat cutting machines with different functions and uses, which confuses you. In order to help you choose the right meat cutter, or to understand how to choose it before choosing a meat slicer, we will sort out and analyze the things you need to understand today, so that you can easily choose the meat slicer you need. Follow our steps to see the following content:

1. Meat Temperature Matters: Match Your Machine to Meat Type

Please clear if you want to cut frozen meat or fresh meat, they are different. So let’s see frozen vs fresh meat slicer requirements, this will be first step to choose the right one.

Frozen Meat (-18°C or lower):

If you want to cut the frozen meat, so the meat slicer for frozen meat should be chosen this step. Normally this type frozen meat cutting machine adopt big power motor and blade with better toughness to cut the super tough meat similar like the bone, or sometimes you need a bone saw to do that.

Normally this type meat will be cut into cube by a meat cube cutter.

Semi-Frozen Meat (-5°C):

This type meat is more easier than the frozen meat, because it is more softer, and whether it is during cutting or after cutting, it can obtain a better shape and is not easy to deform. Maybe you will slice the meat into strips, cube, or chip. There are many kinds of different cutting machine for this meat. Tindo will supply the meat dicer or horizontal meat slicer for industrial use, also supply a commercial meat slicers or home use slicer.

Normally, this type machine uses thinner knife or blades. They are more sharp but hard. The materials such as 420J2 which is very resistant to corrosion.

Fresh Meat:

If you want to slice fresh meat, most machine for slicing the semi-frozen meat can be used. Now, the most important is you need to know the thickness of the meat you want to get. So let’s move to next step.

2. Target Shape & Dimensions: From Slices to Cubes 

This table will help you to clear the final meat size you want to get.

According to the above table, you will be clear what is the important meat cutting machine feature should be cared. But some friends will ask how to cut 2.5mm thin meat slices for jerky, to be frank, there are many different machines, our Horizontal Auto Meat Slicerwill help you a lot. If you want to know the Best meat cubing machine for 10mm diced pork, our Meat Dicer Machine is the right choice for you. You can check the parameters and videos to the product introduction page.

3. Input Meat Size & Pre-Cutting Preparation

Do not forget the input meat size before cutting, because apart from considering the production volume, this also determines whether you need a large or small machine.

According to our long time analysis and research, this below table will be help you to know you need a commercial use or industrial use machine.

The meat input size is also named the meat slicer feed opening size. Different size machine with different opening size, Please do not try to put a large meat block into a small home used machine, that will makes you headache.

For example, our Horizontal Auto Meat Slicer only suitable for the fresh meat which is 140mm witdth and 50mm thickness chicken breast or similar fresh meat. The Meat dicer machine can process meat size smaller than 120*120*550mm. The Marel I-Cut 130 can cut max 750*270*150mm meat.

4. Commercial vs Industrial Meat Slicers: Capacity & Use Cases

This step, you should be clear, if you want a industrial meat slicer 1000kg/h more or commercial meat cutter machine with capacity 50-100kgs per hour. They are in very different price range also.

5. Top Meat Slicer Brands: Industrial vs Commercial Comparison 

The different brands in different area 100% affect your choice. If you want to choose a home use best meat slicer, Globe slicer is the one I recommend first. And the Bizerba and Marel are leader brands of the industrial meat cutting machine brands.

Tindo, as a meat cutting machine manufacturer, supplying good quality meat cutting machine for industrial or commercial use with reasonable price. You can contact our sales team to get the right quotation 7*24hours.

If you are a Commercial Kitchen, you can link this read this article 2024 Commercial Kitchen Tools Trends  this maybe helpful for you.

6. Customization & After-Sales Service: Critical Checklist 

If you are a meat processing factory, there is possibility that you asking for custom meat slicer machine to meet your factory space or to join in your previous production line. So you need to choose the meat cutting machine supplier who can give you Customization Options such as belt width, cutting thickness, machine length, voltage compatibility(110V/220V/380V).

One more thing, please do not forget the after-sales service, if the suppliers give you 1-2 years warranty? How many days they can send the spare parts if the machine broken? A 2022 survey showed 68% of buyers prioritize 2-day emergency repair services over price.

To choose a suitable machine, you need to think carefully about many issues, as we have mentioned in the above article. This will help you find a reliable machine that can provide high value for your production with stable operation.