Meat over stuffing piston problem

[fallflight]

Meat coming over piston on stuffer problem

Why does my meat farce come so much over the top?

[kyle]

fallflight could be a bad gasket, gasket not in right, the open part of the goes down. One thing that helped mine was I spray my gasket and stuffer with food grade silicone

[kyle]

fallflight also if you dont have enough water in your mix, too thick meat going through the stuffer tube causes it also.

[fallflight]

I had 120 ml of water for 2500g of farce. It was plenty lubricated.

I tried flipping the gasket between batches.

[fallflight]

The photo also doesn’t show how bad it was because I had already removed some before taking the photo

[fallflight]

There is a “burper” for air release on the bottom side of the piston, and the screw is on top. Wouldn’t it be a better design to have to circular plates to creat a larger “air burp” mechanism

[fallflight]

I should note, this is the first time I’ve used this stuffer. I left my LEM stuffer in the garbage and went with this one. So far, it’s not working that well.

[johnsbrewhouse]

fallflight It almost looks like you might have the seal on upside down by the way the meat is pushing out. The lips should point down.

[Tex_77]

What stuffer are you using? What were you making? Sometimes meat will get in the air lock, and it needs to be cleaned out to function properly. How hard were cranking? Sometime it is simply a matter of just slowing down.

[fallflight]

Tex_77 was making brats. Vertical 11 lb stuffer. I was using natural hog casing with a very lubricated meat farce. I was also using the “slow” gear

[fallflight]

johnsbrewhouse I tried flipping the gasket between batches.

[jfyoung45]

I found on mine the vent screw was completely tightened and it would not let the air out. I back off the screw a few turns and it was better. A couple more turns and I could hear the air escaping and no more farce escaped.

[fallflight]

jfyoung45 I can try that

[scottfletcher]

That exact thing happened to me and I found the burper was tighten down. I loosened it and never experienced this again.

[samspade]

I also had over tightened the burper valve. Fixed that turned over the gasket and went even slower everything worked much better.
Dumb question while you had the gasket off did you was and dry the plunger and gasket and look for cracks in either? Then reassemble coating both with white oil?

[fallflight]

samspade not a dumb question. I’ve used stuffers from all brands. This was the first time I used this new stuffer. The directions don’t really show which way to put the gasket on.

I didn’t loosen the burper

I tried the gasket both ways

[scottfletcher]

fallflight Did you get it to work?

[samspade]

fallflight ok any chance the piston or chamber is out of round? Wouldn’t be sure how to check, maybe draw a circle around plunger and check with compass or micrometer…

[jfyoung45]

Here is an explanation on the gasket. Watch from 1:40-2:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvtFnnrDRHE

[Jonathon]

scottfletcher Is probably onto what is a good portion of the problem but it might also just be the gasket, those things are a single point of failure, since you flipped it I would say it isn’t the orientation but more likely either the valve is too tight, or a faulty gasket. (apparently I am into repeating myself today) Let me know if you loosen it and it happens again, we can send you a new gasket obviously.