Meat – Utensil that forms meat into cylinders

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I'm making some kebabs, which involves taking a mixture of ground meat and spices, then rolling them into small cylinders. I usually hand roll, but I have to make them in large volume soon and would like them to look a little more like perfect cylinders.

I cannot figure out the name for a tool that might be a cheap, small hand tool that would form ground meat into small cylinders. I picture something that has a scissor handle and a cylinder end, like a meat baller but cylindrical instead of spherical. Does something like this exist and have a name?

Best Answer

This seems to be one of those gag gift products you find on the web that has attracted attention for its absurdity... reading through the questions and reviews, it's difficult to tell which are jokes and which are genuine... regardless, it seems that the "Ham Dogger", a device for making hot dog-shaped hamburger "patties", may do what you're looking for. And, at the low, low price of $7.99, can you afford not giving it a try? Probably!

Serious Eats has a walkthrough of how it works:

Ham Dogger Step by step

Unlike the other gadgets in this roundup, it doesn't even pretend to be practical. It's a plastic mold that shapes burger meat into a bun-sized log. Figure out how to work it right, and you can even stuff your hamdogs with a thin strip of whatever you'd like (I really can't imagine fitting anything but a little cheese into the narrow trough the mold creates).

  • Novelty: 7
  • Usefulness: 4
  • Construction quality/ease of use: 8
  • Overall assessment: It does exactly what they claim it will do, but leaves you wondering "why?"
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