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: terrible attachment - don't waste your money - it STINKS!
Summary: 1 Stars
As others have noted - you will experience unacceptable difficulties in three areas:
1) Unimaginably slow feeding/extruding of the raw sausage mixture
2) Excessive amounts of air entering grinder chamber and eventually blowing up your casings like a balloon
3) The plunger end of the handle tool is too narrow and much of the meat mixture just oozes out of the chamber instead of getting rammed down.
Note that these are issues with the design of the grinder assembly in terms of its ability to handle sausage meat. The sausage feed tubes are just ordinary, plastic, tapered tubes.
Look elsewhere to stuff sausage - I'm going to purchase a standalone electric stuffer.
Customer Review: Plunger is too loose to push sausage mix
Summary: 3 Stars
The diameter of the plunger for pushing sausage down into the auger is too small. If the sausage mix is moist enough to stuff into casings, it is too moist to remain below the plunger. As you push down, sausage mix oozes around the plunger into the chamber above the bottom of the plunger. This really slows down the stuffing process and results in air entering the auger and your casing. You can eliminate most of the backflow if the sausage mix drier, but this increases the load on the motor and does not significantly speed up the process. The sausage stuffer kit needs its own plunger, one that seals to the inside of the chamber and allows you to push a moist sausage mix without backflow.Customer Review: Easier with the right info
Summary: 4 Stars
Sausage making is an artform. It can be difficult to get the hang of, but with the right info you can make wonderful, fresh sausage and feel good about the ingredients inside. This sausage attachment works pretty well. The hopper is a little small, but unless you are making a ton at a time, it's not a deal breaker. It's important to keep the meat really cold throughout the process though or the fat will melt and could hurt your mixer engine. I picked up The Mixer Bible which has about 35 sausage recipes along with 300 other recipes for the mixer and it's other attachments. I really like the book and it walks you through the ins and outs of working with all the attachments.Customer Review: Works well, but there are tricks to make it work right
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a simple set up that you can attach to your existing meat grinder. It's made from relativley light weight palstic, but seems sturdy enough for home use. The casing slides over the tube and feeds easily while you are filling. The trick to make this whole set up work is that the meat needs to be semi frozen during both the grinding and stuffing operations. I used this to make wild pig sausages, and was frustrated at first. The meat did not feed well until I read about chilling the meat before grinding or stuffing. I ended up putting the ground up pork back into the freezer, spread out on a cookie sheet, for about an hour before stuffing and it worked great.Customer Review: A Pleasant Surprise
Summary: 5 Stars
The KitchenAid sausage attachment (used with the food grinder) turned out to be a way better choice than I was expecting...so many bad reviews that have been posted, I was thinking it would be a throw-away...boy, was I surprised....made up 4 lbs of Italian sausage mix last night...stuck it in the fridge...and when I got home from work today, I soaked the hog casings for about 30 minutes...hooked up the attachment and BAM....I had 20 links done...didnt need two people, had no trouble with air in the casings...it was so easy, it was a joke....
If you cant make this product work, you probably should NOT be around sharp knives in the kitchen...