Meat Grinder by KitchenAid

[daniel craig]

This guy just did 20lbs of venison. Needed cleaning out halfway through but otherwise was a beast! $40 at target.

 

[troy fairweather]

Ya they work good, my dad and his wife has the attachment. I don't have one otherwise there a good value.

 

[LNK]

View attachment 962377 This guy just did 20lbs of venison. Needed cleaning out halfway through but otherwise was a beast! $40 at target.

Is the new one plastic? Not sure how long something like that would last. But at $40, I guess it might be worth a try. I have the old Hobart metal grinder attachment, I wonder how they compare?

 

[Duster340]

I use mine all the time. Helps if the meat is slightly frosty. Ground about 16 pounds of venison in no time a few weeks ago.

 

[George P]

Before I gave it to my son, mine had that attachment. When grinding venison, we added pork shoulder to add some fat to that meat which also made grinding easier. Then we used plain old bread after to clean out the grinder.

 

[entropy]

SWMBO just won a Professional 5 Kitchen Aid mixer, and the grinder is the first attachment I plan on getting. We also are getting the pasta attachment. She actually might cook! Or, I'll have a new kitchen toy.

 

[.308 Norma]

Is the new one plastic? Not sure how long something like that would last.

The blades are steel. Ours has lasted over 20 years, and when you figure in those 20+ years, we've used it for grinding deer meat from deer I've shot, and deer my wife has shot, as well as deer our daughter AND one of our grandsons has shot, it's been well worth whatever we paid for it - which I can't even remember.
When our family cuts and wraps venison, we get a regular "production line" going - one person goes out to the shed and brings a deer quarter in the house, then that person and another person cuts that quarter into steaks, chops, and roasts, and pass the scraps to the person running the Kitchen Aid with the meat grinder attachment. A couple more people are weighing the meat, dividing it up, wrapping and labeling it. We have a vacuum sealer too, but venison doesn't last long enough in our family for us to worry about it being in the freezer too long.
BTW, our ground venison goes through the grinder twice - once by itself, then we mix it 50/50 with the cheapest beef burger we can find and run it through the grinder again. We do the same thing when we're making venison sausage. The venison meat goes through grinder once, then we mix it 50/50 with either ground pork or pork sausage, add the seasonings we like, and run it all through the grinder again.

 

[George P]

Mine had a plastic tray, wood "pusher", the innards are steel as was the blade and the metal dies for meat size. Made a of of hamburger, ground deer, ground pork, etc. My only complaint was the room it occupied as we downsized our home and had a smaller kitchen

 

[Random 8]

They work good. Not up to the level of a high dollar dedicated grinder, but good enough for a couple deer and a few odd sausage products per year. Well worth the money. You do need to watch the temp of the kitchenaid unit itself, it will overheat during extended grinding and needs a couple of breaks to cool down (don't break the wife's upright mixer grinding "your" venison, and it will be "YOUR" deer meat if it breaks). Ours likes the meat refrigerated or soft frozen for best operation.

 

[George P]

They work good. Not up to the level of a high dollar dedicated grinder, but good enough for a couple deer and a few odd sausage products per year. Well worth the money. You do need to watch the temp of the kitchenaid unit itself, it will overheat during extended grinding and needs a couple of breaks to cool down (don't break the wife's upright mixer grinding "your" venison, and it will be "YOUR" deer meat if it breaks). Ours likes the meat refrigerated or soft frozen for best operation.

I have watched a butcher shop that grinds pork shoulder for making their sausage and they add ice to prevent the meat and machine from overheating while grinding.

 

[troy fairweather]

I have watched a butcher shop hat grinds pork shoulder for making their sausage and they add ice to prevent the meat and machine from overheating while grinding.

The ice helps a lot, more so in a small grinder. It makes it grind much better and acts like a lubricant in a way other then keeping it cool.

 

[daniel craig]

Is the new one plastic? Not sure how long something like that would last. But at $40, I guess it might be worth a try. I have the old Hobart metal grinder attachment, I wonder how they compare?

They make them in both metal and plastic. The important parts on the plastic one are still metal though.

 

[gspn]

Is the new one plastic? Not sure how long something like that would last. But at $40, I guess it might be worth a try. I have the old Hobart metal grinder attachment, I wonder how they compare?

I think I've had my plastic one for over 15 years. The cutting blades and grind plates are metal. I can't even begin to count how many pounds of venison I've run through that thing over the years. I'm certain that if I live another 40 years my kids will get it and still be using it.

 

[Highland Lofts]

My byother has a good size stainless steel grinder for here in New York.
Last summer I bought the meat grinder attachment for our Kitchen Aid back in Washington State.
I had the same set up went I lived back here in New York and did hundreds & hundeds of pounds of ground venison. We also would occasionally butcher some dairy cows we got from a friend.

 

[JDeere]

We used one for years to grind meat and stuff sausage. Then came the time in the smoker. It worked well for what it is. Now I just take it to my local meat market and let them grind and pack it. It's cheap compared to the time it took to do it ourselves. If you enjoy doing it and don't mind the time then go for it...

 

[daniel craig]

We used one for years to grind meat and stuff sausage. Then came the time in the smoker. It worked well for what it is. Now I just take it to my local meat market and let them grind and pack it. It's cheap compared to the time it took to do it ourselves. If you enjoy doing it and don't mind the time then go for it...

For us, time is cheaper than money. Especially when the grinder cost less than the meat processor would.

 

[WestKentucky]

Guys be careful and don’t bog the mixer motor down. The motor is meant for light resistance, and if you bog it down then you end up damaging the motor and dealing with a angry woman who needs her kitchen gadget every day until parts arrive. At least motor replacement wasn’t a big ordeal. I followed a YouTube tutorial and it went fine. Would have been quicker but I had to watch, do, rewatch, redo... I got a dedicated grinder that year for Christmas, and I haven’t killed a deer since to try it out.

 

[daniel craig]

Guys be careful and don’t bog the mixer motor down. The motor is meant for light resistance, and if you bog it down then you end up damaging the motor and dealing with a angry woman who needs her kitchen gadget every day until parts arrive. At least motor replacement wasn’t a big ordeal. I followed a YouTube tutorial and it went fine. Would have been quicker but I had to watch, do, rewatch, redo... I got a dedicated grinder that year for Christmas, and I haven’t killed a deer since to try it out.

I like to think that I’ll be ok because our kitchenaid is at least 20-30 years old (family pass down) and only got light use over that time, that it’s more rugged than the new ones. Buy you’re right, you can hear the difference in tone when you’re forcing it too hard, that’s when we back it it off.

 

[George P]

That meat pusher is meant to be used to lightly push the meat through the screw to the plates, not to try and cram 10# into a 5# space.

 

[troy fairweather]

That meat pusher is meant to be used to lightly push the meat through the screw to the plates, not to try and cram 10# into a 5# space.

Yup most seem to forget that, yet another reason ice helps so much. Even a splash of water will help a lot. A friends brother pushed so hard he broke the neck off a very nice and probably rare grinder attachment for the shopsmiths.

 

[daniel craig]

Yup most seem to forget that, yet another reason ice helps so much. Even a splash of water will help a lot. A friends brother pushed so hard he broke the neck off a very nice and probably rare grinder attachment for the shopsmiths.

Yep. Go easy and clean it out occasionally

 

[tlynch]

They make them in both metal and plastic. The important parts on the plastic one are still metal though.

I'm on my second one of the plastic attachments, and the toughest thing I grind is cranberry relish. Definitely let he grinder do the work, and don't press too hard.

 

[der Teufel]

I've used one to grind up feral hogs for ground meat and sausage. Mine is (was) the plastic version, which I bought cheaply at a garage sale a dozen or more years ago. It had a crack in the housing which has now become enlarged, and a couple more cracks have shown up. In looking for a replacement I see that Amazon has several varieties (mostly foreign made) that have metal bodies but cost about the same or slightly more than a new plastic one from KitchenAid. I think that's the way I'll go.
However, for serious work (serious to me is grinding 30-40 Lbs of meat) I have a small grinder that came from Academy. It was $75-80 on sale several years ago and even though it's nothing special it's better than the KitchenAid by quite a bit if you're doing more than ten pounds of meat or stuffing sausage.
I have mostly been using the KA grinder for softer stuff like grinding chickpeas to make hummus lately (don't have a food processor).

 

[H&Hhunter]

I got tired of gadgets and light duty slow grinders a long time ago. I have a 1.5 HP LEM now. I’ve done three elk and five deer with it this year. It grinds as fast as you can feed it. It stuffs faster than you can keep up.

I’ve never looked back.

 

[earlthegoat2]

I don’t have the grinder attachment for my wife’s mixer but I do use it as a mixer quite often.

I have a large and powerful manual grinder with a slightly wimpier power source.....

I also have an old 1hp Westinghouse motor rigged to a smallish grinder in a fairly dangerous looking configuration that works so well it should probably be illegal.

I think my dad and I did an entire deer in 1/2 hour. That’s the whole deer not just the scraps.