Food Grinder Attachment by KitchenAid

save your money and buy a dedicated machine. The blade was so dull I had to sharpen it for 15 min before I could even use it. The stuffer atachment is a joke and is unusable. If I werent so far from the distributer I would have sent it back

It killed my mixer!!! Now I'm facing about a $125.00 repair bill on my beautiful
K'Aid Stand Mixer that I've only had for a year!

The mixer now labors badly almost to the point where the motor might get damaged! Before I used this ill-fated grinder, the mixer worked beautifully with no problems.

The transmission is all messed up and some of the gears and the one that's in the accessory drive have to be replaced to get it working like new again.

Leave this product alone. Don't bother with it because it could ultimately destroy your K'Aid Stand Mixer, causing an expensive repair bill!!


~Daquan13.

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.

I purchased the grinder and sausage stuffers to make holiday sausage. It emulsified the meat and took us twenty minutes to get a 12" ring. We switched to the old hand crank and got out 30 lbs. in about 40 mins. This would probably be fine for other things but not acceptable for sausage or probably meat grinding in general. Also the holes are too small and the pusher is a plastic thing not the wooden one they picture.

This grinder works fairly well. I bought it primarily to coarse grind meat for chili. It doesn't grind quite coarse enough for me. It requires extremely lean meat cut into relatively small cubes to function well. It works but you find yourself taking the grinder apart and pulling out peaces of fat and connective tissue that clog up the works. This is a pain. It's not easy and it is time consuming.