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: IT'S A STUFFER - WHAT CAN YOU SAY.
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought the whole kitchenaid system and thought that i would make some sausages. there's not much thought to the stuffer (it's plastic) however, the kitchenaid is not worth the effort. 1st: you can't just buy the stuffer, it has to be used with the grinder attachment; 2nd: when you install the attachment, on the counter, it extend the kitchenaid to about 6-7 feet in height (you'll have to climb up on the chair/table; 3rd: it does not stuff easily, meat goes all over the place (leeks through the attachment), the plunger does not plunge, meat sticks and it is hard to work with, you'll spend roughly 1/2 hour trying to get meat into the stuffer, into the sausage, and by the time 1/2 hour is over, you merely stuffed about 2 feet of sausages. NOT USER FRIENDLY AT ALL.
If you are looking for a sausage stuffer that works, by RONCO. I ended up using my sister's and it is great. super easy to use and stuffs in seconds.
Customer Review: COMPLETE PIECE OF CRAP - DO NOT BUY
Summary: 1 Stars
The whole idea of using the auger in the grinder to push meat into sausage casings is flawed - not only does the auger get warm and melt the fat, but you are almost RE-grinding the meat by using this. As a consequence, I made five pounds of breakfast sausage this morning and ended up with the casings stuffed with PASTE, not ground meat. In other words, I wanted breakfast SAUSAGE and ended up with something more like a breakfast HOT DOG. Blecch,
Also, the hopper on the grinder only holds a small amount, so you're trying to guide the stuffed casing with one hand, push the meat into the auger (no, it doesn't gravity feed) with the other hand and keep adding meat to the hopper with the other hand - yes, that's THREE hands.
...and don't even get me started on the "pusher" for the grinder.
Yes, a "real" stuffer is expensive, but the savings in frustration is well worth it.
Customer Review: Worthless
Summary: 1 Stars
The KitchenAid Sausage Stuffer, along with its partner in total ineptitude, the KitchenAid Food Grinder, is absolutely horrible. The stuffer constantly gets jammed; at the same time, the food pusher creates suction and nearly all that you push down gets pulled back up the chute. This creates an extremely lengthy and frustrating experience. In addition, the back-breaking work that the food pusher requires forced me to stand on a chair so I could stand above it and push down. I then needed a second person to hold the partially stuffed sausage that was on the end of the attachment or the weight of the sausage hanging down would eventually pull the casing off of the attachment.
The product is as cheap and poorly designed as possible. It is a disaster. Do not waste your time; I'll be returning mine (along with the grinder) and demanding a refund. This is a disgraceful product.
Customer Review: Not That Difficult To Use
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this to make venison sausage. I found it fairly simple to use with only a few draw backs. First two people make the job a lot easier, one to manage the meat going in and one to manage the sausage coming out. I would not attempt this alone. Second, as reviewed, the plastic dowel provided to push the meat into the grinder is not ideal. With the casing on the tube, there is a suction issue, and you seem to pull as much meat out as you push in. We solved this by using a wooden straight sided dowel that fit the hole. The rest is really just getting the hang of it which you'll figure out as you go along. We made two different recipes found on [...], and we wood smoked them. The sausage we made is AMAZING & our husbands think we are the best sausage makers in the world! If you already have the Kitchen Aid & grinder, for $10 bucks, and some effort you can make your own sausage at home!Customer Review: Works, but far too slow
Summary: 2 Stars
Bought this to stuff some hog casings, since I already had the grinder attachment for my KitchenAid and didn't want to drop $150 on a vertical stuffer for the rare occasions when I make sausage. Took me well over an hour to stuff a little over 2 pounds of sausage, and I ran into a lot of the issues others have mentioned: meat backing up around the inadequate plastic plunger, insufficient traction from the auger to propel meat through even the large tube, lots of air pockets in the resulting sausage, and so on.
I ended up going with a Eastman Outdoors 38237 Jerky and Sausage Gun Kit with 5 Extra Nozzles for the next batch, which at about $30 was a good compromise over a vertical stuffer for my needs, despite having to reload 5 or 6 times to get through a 6 lb. batch of meat.