Food Grinder Attachment

I prefer a finer texture for my meat loaf than I get with prepared ground beef and found this grinder allows me to get the texture I want. I also like the ability to change the texture depending on the purpose.

a dream fulfilled

I've always wanted this attachment but hesitated because I didn't think I'd use it often enough. But then a great butcher moved into my neighborhood. Now I can get the cuts of meat I want to make burgers of various kinds and patés and terrines. It's my new favorite kitchen tool, easy to attach and detach and clean.

Happy with grinder

I have only used this once but was happy to say it works well and is easy to clean. I will be using this much more very soon.

We purchased this product so we knew what was going into the meat we were going to be eating. The product works perfect.

I purchased this item as a gift, but have one of my own that I have enjoyed using. Most recently I ground my Thanksgiving turkey leftovers to make salad. It's a great product.

It works well

I have used this product for several dishes and it works well.
Easy to clean, the handle to push the ingredients into the well
is a great design.

Food Grinder

What I needed. Would buy again

Does what it should do, perfect grinder.

Quality made completely breaks down for cleaning, blades are sharp enough for the toughest meat fibers.

Good, but not industrial strength

A friend and I used the food grinder attachment recently to produce several different sausages. While it does an admirable job grinding the food, the feeding mechanism is a bit tedious. I've never used another grinder, so maybe that's just the case with these things, but I expected it to be a little more automatic.

Does a great job.

I first used this product to re-grind sausage that was too bland and needed more spice. My hand mixing just did not distribute the spices well. I was surprised at how well the meat fed through the machine and how nicely it came out in a much better blend that the original. The machine was easy to mount on my mixer and it cleaned up very easily, once I figured out how to get the center out.

Great meat grinder!

The meat grinder works great. It's easy to hook up to the mixer and comes apart easily for cleaning.The instructions recommended freezing the meat first to make it easier to grind, which we did. We used chuck steak to grind into hamburgers. The burgers were very tender and flavorful.

A little time consuming to take apart and clean, but does a very good job of grinding.

First time I used this product

The attachment was easy to use , I made my first batch of sausage, and my friends really said it was great ,not bad for an old guy.

It is a nice added feature to your KitchenAid mixer. This is one of the best tools that you can add on to an already great kitchen tool. The food grinder has the same quality that we have all come to expect from KitchenAid products.

Was a wonderful Christmas present

Just have my mixer since Christmas. Wonderful surpize from my husband. I then ordered Food Grinder Attachment and 5-qt. Pouring Shield by KitchenAid.
Using your Cooking .com site. Found you site to be the cheapest and had no problem ordering on your site. They were within a few days. I am very please with the service and the site. Which I check daily for any sale's and reciepes.
I have tried a couple of the reciepes with a good results. Very good.
The Food Grinder easy to attach and easy to use. Makes a great burger from a chuck roast. Not knowing how much meat handling to get to burger this is a great way to cut down the concern. By making your own.
Pouring Shield is also easy to attach and helps not only in the pouring of you contents into what ever you wish to Bake serve etc. Also keep much of the possible splash out down.

KA grinder attachment

Worked well as majority of reviews indicated. A little more difficult to clean than anticipated, but acceptable.

I found the grinder did not work as well as i would of liked

disappointed

I have tried the grinder twice now with sirloin and then with chuck roast and tried both size grinding plates and the burgers had a very undesirable consistency. I am disappointed in this product and wouldn't recommend it in spite of what Cooks Illustrated said.

Great Grind

Worth investment if your'e looking to grind your own meats or vegetables at nominal cost. Cutter is designed well so that it cuts on either side (eliminates concern of properly installing). Could use a third (middle) extruder plate between coarse and fine, but simply running through a second time on either plate will suffice. Important to follow instructions to partially freeze 1" or 2" strips or chunks prior to grinding. Only concern is running mixer more than 10 of 15 minutes. It heats up noticeably. Attachment should be used for moderate grinding of 2-4 lbs per session. Cleans up nicely, have yet to put dishwasher-safe parts in dishwasher.

this is a gift, requested by make and model, so I am sure it will be greatly appreciated.