My uncle ran a butcher shop for 22 years and he'd always yell at me to chill the meat before grinding, not the grinder itself. Cold fat grinds clean and puts way less strain on the auger, and he swore warm beef was the number one killer of kitchen motors. Try tossing your ribeye chunks in the freezer for 20 minutes next time and see if the housing stays cooler.

Try the 3am one, honestly. Your brain's too fried at midnight to write anything worth keeping, so you just stare at the screen and call it "brainstorming." Mornings win for actually finishing stuff, even if waking up that early is miserable.

Watched a buddy of mine try this exact thing in his garage shop about six years back. He was all fired up about it too, said he wanted to build his cabinets the old way, no metal anywhere. Fast forward to the next summer and every single drawer in that shop was sticking so bad he had to yank them with two hands, and he ended up tearing the whole thing apart and buying slides anyway. The wax trick might work in a dry climate or a house with real steady air, but here in the South with our humidity swinging all over the place, wood moves and that wax wears off quick. Your mileage may vary depending on where you live and how hard the kitchen gets used, but I would not bet a whole set of cabinets on it.