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: Great For Small Quantities
Summary: 5 Stars
I had this product since 1982 and, if used correctly, it works great for small batches of sausage for home use.
My favorite hobbies include cooking gourmet meals. In 1981 I received an issue of Cook's Magazine that had a number of sausage recipes. I tried them all with the KitchenAid stuffer in 3 pound batches. The results were amazing.
One needs to learn how to use the stuffer by preparing small batches, getting a feel for how firm to pack the casings and being sure to take the grinder blade out before stuffing. After a few attempts it works perfectly and makes great sausage.
Tip: Season the meat after it is ground, unlike other instructions say. You get a more complete mix of spices.
Tip: Homemade sausage "cures" overnight in the refrigerator for a better taste!
Customer Review: What a mess
Summary: 1 Stars
I love my KitchenAid stand mixer and the meat grinding attachment. However, this attachment is another story. The sausage mixture should be pulled through the stuffer tube by the auger in the mixer, that didn't happen. The only way to make this work was to use the plastic food pusher to push the mixture in into the hopper and force it into the stuffer tube. This process was a mess, with the meat mixture "squishing" around the poorly designed pusher base and collecting on the pusher.
Someone suggesting contacting KitchenAid to get one of the "old style" wooden pushers - which is a solid piece and wouldn't allow the meat to squish back up around the pusher base. I called KA and they told me that they no longer have these pushers and they were discontinued long ago.
Customer Review: It's all right...
Summary: 3 Stars
I've used this twice in the last week and have made very good sausages with it. My only problem is that for one person it is a very clumsy way to stuff sausages. I'm a chef at a restaurant that makes sausages a lot using a different machine so I know what I'm doing, but this set-up is awkward and a bit frustrating. The plastic plunger that came with the grinder is irksome, having a base that is too narrow compared to the tube, which when trying to stuff meat into the filler tube it allows most of the meat squish up the sides around the plunger. Processing a 5# batch of meat isn't taking me nearly as long as some of the other reviews, but it seems to take a lot longer than necessary. I will be getting a bigger crank style filler, but this one works okay for now.Customer Review: There's a trick
Summary: 2 Stars
The first few times we used our sausage stuffer attachment, I wondered how anyone could give this a positive review. It honestly seemed tp stuff just as fast with the machine off, and the poorly-fitting plunger pushed huge amounts of air through the stuffer and into the sausage. Then I found the trick to getting it to work.
Getting air out of the system is the only way to get the feed screw to work. The easiest way to do this is to work a drinking straw up and down the feed chute while gently pressing on the plunger. You'll feel the plunger drop as air escapes. Once the air's out, the stuffer will actually stuff pretty well. Keep working the straw as you go.
The straw trick actually made this thing worth the $9. Without it, it's terrible.
Customer Review: It works... sorta.
Summary: 3 Stars
For the price it's not a bad way to get into making your own sausage if you're already using the KA meat grinder, but for stuffing sausages it's not great. It clogs very easy (yes I had it assembled correctly) and you have feed very small chunks of the sausage into the tube leading to the worm drive, if you just try to shove it down the tube with the tamper it clogs badly. If you drop little chunks down and push with moderate pressure it'll work smoothly but still very slow. Because of clogging problems it took me about 90 minutes to stuff a 5# batch of fennel sausage, but once I made friends with it the pace would be about 30 minutes for five pounds, which is still to slow IMO. I'll be dropping a little more money on a dedicated stuffer soon.