The thing you miss most in Britain isn't some banquet dish — it's a batch of dumplings made from scratch. And the fuss was never the folding: it's the filling and the dough.
The Joyoung meat grinder and dough mixer does both in one machine, with a 2.8L glass bowl — mince and mix the filling, knead the dough, and make enough for several people at once. The workhorse of any flatshare dumpling night.
500W drives through whole cuts of meat, turning out filling in seconds; switch to the dough setting and the ball forms itself, with the glass bowl letting you watch so nothing gets overworked.
Hand-chopping filling is hard graft, hand-kneading leaves dough all over your fingers, and the kitchen is tiny anyway — this automates the two most off-putting steps, leaving the rolling, filling and pinching, which is the fun part.
A little recipe
- Pork and cabbage filling: grind the pork, then beat in ginger, spring onion, light soy and a spoonful of water in one direction; squeeze the chopped cabbage dry and fold it through.
- Hand-made meatball soup: whip the mince with egg white and starch until tacky, squeeze balls through your fist into barely simmering water — done when they float.
Flavours of home
Northeastern pickled-cabbage pork dumplings, northwestern lamb and carrot dumplings, Shandong mackerel dumplings, Jiangnan shepherd's-purse wontons, Cantonese prawn wonton, Sichuan-Chongqing red-oil chaoshou and zhong dumplings, Chaoshan hand-beaten beef balls, northern pork and spring onion baozi — filling and wrapper both come out of this one machine, so even New Year's Eve dumplings are spoken for.
Capacity 2.8L | Brand: Joyoung | Model S26-LA586 | Power 500W | Dimensions 265×201×342mm | cream white.
⚠️ Chinese-spec 220V/50Hz, CE-certified UK adapter plug included — works straight out of the box | warranty (TBC) | dispatched from our Birmingham, UK warehouse.
A taste of home, in a foreign kitchen.
