KitchenAid SSA Sausage Stuffer Kit Attachment for Food Grinder
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of KitchenAid SSA Sausage Stuffer Kit Attachment for Food Grinder
Customer Review: If you have never made sausage before you might not
Summary: 1 Stars
realize that this is the worst sausage stuffer EVER!
I've used a Hobart meat grinder to make sausage for years, stuffs casings so fast you have to feed the meat slowly and it still stuffs about 1 foot per second. This attachment is a joke, actually the attachment is fine although feels like the cheapest of plastics. Its the grinder that fails at sausage stuffing.
Basically its just way to small to suck the meat in itself so you have to force feed it with the ridiculous plunger that comes with the grinder attachment. Meat constantly works it way around the 1/4" gap between the plunger and grinder port.
I always spray a light oil over all parts to allow the meat to slip through, it helps but not enough.
If you are making 2 pounds of sausage, its ok. If you are trying to make 20 pounds, give yourself 4 hours.
FYI, the grinder attachment works pretty well for grinding meat. I ground 40 pounds of venison in about an hour. Not great but for $50 bucks it works. Don't expect Hobart performance for $50 bucks.
Customer Review: Value for money but not great
Summary: 3 Stars
First, for the price this must be the best sausage stuffer available. But, it is not easy to or fast. This is not due to this product as such but the difficulty of feeding the sausage meat into the grinder "mouth". This is especially true if you have a very sticky mixture. It took me longer to stuff the sausages using this product than it did to measure the ingredients and grind it in the first place. I also would have preferred the tubes to be a few inches longer so that they could hold a greater length of casing.
Again, this is almost certainly the cheapest way to go (assuming you have a KitchenAid KSM150PSER Artisan Series 5-Quart Mixer, Empire Red and KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers) but it is not great at the job. I'll probably buy a purpose built machine in the future.
Customer Review: Get ready to impress everyone with homemade sausages
Summary: 5 Stars
This attachment, when used in conjunction with the Kitchen Aid food grinder, sets you up for home sausage making in no time, and it couldn't be easier to use.
Some notes on making sausage:
Get as much fat as you can in your meat. I've completed two batches thus far, the first being fairly lean and the second having about 33% more fat in the mix. Even after going nuts with the extra fat, there's still a bit of texture missing, and the result is somewhat dry. So don't be afraid to use as much fat as you can. Also, cut your meat into fairly small chunks before sending them through the grinder. If you put whole cuts of meat through, pieces of fat or skin tend to divide inside the grinder, won't make it through, and results in a little clogging which slows down the output.
If you've dreamed of making your own sausages, even lean sausages, you will not be disappointed with this attachment and the grinder. It's a lot of fun, and a great way to get creative in the kitchen.
Customer Review: You're Doing it Wrong
Summary: 5 Stars
Once you realize how it properly is assembled for stuffing, you realize how great a product it is. TAKE OUT THE BLADE AND GRINDING PLATE. If you don't remove these, it will seem impossible to stuff a full length casing. It took me an hour doing this. I dissembled, and removed the blade and plate, replacing it with the plastic spinner in the box, and once I did that, the auger did its job and started pulling the meat through, instead of the vicious plunger stuffing that was needed before.
Once this was done, I stuffed 10lbs in about 30 minutes (50 links). My recipe:
10 lbs pork shoulder
2 lbs bacon (unsliced)
2 lbs ultra-sharp cheddar (shredded)
2 tbs ground fennel
2 tbs ground corriander
2 tbs ginger
1 tbs ground mustard
1 tbs chili powder
2 tbs red flake pepper
1/4 cup water
sprinkling of salt
Use natural hog casings and your all set.
Customer Review: Worthless Attachment for kitchenaid mixer
Summary: 1 Stars
I have always like my kichenaid products. This stuffer is worthless. This was not my first time making sausage, and Ithough why not save some time and actually by a stuffer rather than use a funnel. I thought I would be saving time and effort, but boy was that wrong! I found it faster to stuff by hand (which I hate to do). It was impossible to control air entering into the stuffer and control the meat moving consistantly into the casing without getting too warm for food safety. I am going to buy a hand stuffer (maybe the Grizzly or a cabella's upright). It cracked the first time I used it, which it should not have done with the minimal amount of pressure put on it. I bought this at a store that is over 90 miles away so I will not be returning it. Until this point I had loved every attachemnet I had for my mixer, though my overall favorite is still the meat grinder. For that to work so well, why is the sausage stuffer soo pitifully bad.