meat grinders

[Birdhunter1]

For Christmas this year I got my wife a Kitchenaide 5 quart Artisan mixer, she has always wanted one and she has been fairly wuiet in the past year with a few firearm, reloading equipment and other tool purchases so i figure I'd better keep the peace as best as I can.

I see that they also make a food grinder attacthment for this mixer, this past week processing three deer we were both saying how nice it would be to have an electric grinder. I am just wondering if anyone here has used this attachment on their kitchenaide mixer and how well it will grind meats?

 

[buck460XVR]

I have used one on my wife's Kitchenaide for years......it works as well as the old commercial #32 grinder we used to use. It works best if the meat is cut into smaller pieces, semifrozen, with the coarse plate @ medium speed.....


BTW, did three deer so far this year. I tend to be a bit picky about what I grind, so the grinder sees very few tendons, little tallow and gristle. The meat as it comes out of the grinder attachment looks just like storebought.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I often let tendons and tallow through and I rarely cut the meat into cubes. Have you had any problems without cutting into cubes or allowing the tallow and such through?

So in your experiences this should be a suitable item for what I am wanting to do?

 

[Shawnee]

Hi Birdhunter...

Might be of interest to you...

http://www.foodnetworkstore.com/c-4...te-on-KitchenAid-Stand-Mixer-Attachments.aspx

 

[buck460XVR]

I often let tendons and tallow through and I rarely cut the meat into cubes. Have you had any problems without cutting into cubes or allowing the tallow and such through?

So in your experiences this should be a suitable item for what I am wanting to do?

Again, I'm a bit picky about what I eat, so I have no experience with running large amounts of tallow and tendons thru the attachment. The throat on the feed for the grinding attachment is quite small. Whereas I could almost push a piece of meat as large as my hands thru the old #32, that ain't so with the Kitchenaide attachment. It still grinds the meat as fast as you can feed it tho.

Will the attachment stand up to commercial type use for many years......probably not, but for the $40 we paid for it. I am happy. We have used it for about 8 years and have probably ground the burger for twenty deer with it, and it has done a good job. Again for $40 you can't ask for much.

 

[Birdhunter1]

Answered my question buck, thanks.

Shawnee I have looked at that site tonight while looking at prices on the attachments, i was going to send the links to my father in law as he is always kinda stumped on what to get her too!

 

[MrCleanOK]

Been using the Kitchen-Aid meat grinder attachment in my family for years. Works great.

 

[Husker1911]

Hell, I'm an old bachelor and use the heck out of my KA Artisan and the grinder attachment. Works great! I don't buy hamburger at the store, I buy chuck or sirloin and grind it myself. I then measure it into 1# packages and refrigerate/freeze. I have much less worry of e. coli or contamination.

Good advice to cut the meat into 1.5" x 1.5" slabs and put into the freezer until they're firmed up.

I've made several scores of pounds of good venison sausage with a friend's near-commercial sausage press. I own the KA sausage maker but haven't yet tried it out. I will, soon.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Yes, I have used one for 10 years now. Works awesome. One thing though, if you're doing more than about 25 lbs, let the unit cool down occasionally. I too am pretty picky about my burger, but I can grind about 1.5-2 lbs per minute or so.

 

[Shawnee]

Buck460....

Cabela's is having some of their better meat grinders on sale right now. Check their website when you can.

 

[moosehunt]

Each to his own, but if you buy a grinder that retails for less than about $600-$700, you'll be lucky to get 250 pounds throuh it before it craps out! A decent home grinder is going to run you abou $1250+. Granted, if you only want to run 10-20 pounds at a time, and you have lot's of that commodity (time), you can slide by if you cut it small, go slow, etc, but you'll do nothing but grumble. Few people listen initially (be different!), but if you'll spring for a small commercial grinder to begin with, you'll save money and frustration in the long run. You can grind 10-15 pounds in 30+ minutes (hoping & praying it doesn't burn out) or 50 pounds in 10 minutes with no worry--time and time again. Your choice. You get what you pay for!!!

 

[Navy_Guns]

I don't know about that, Moose. I got my "made in China" grinder from Harbor Freight for about $100 and it has done me well the last 6 years. Noisy as hell (I wear muffs when I'm running it) but it eats anything I put in it, cleans up easily, and I'm very happy with it.

 

[moosehunt]

Glad you've had good luck, Navy. Most folks don't. Each to his own.

 

[rem1]

my 50$ from dicks sports has ground a lot of ven and still runs strong had it 5 years now with 5 to 6 deer a year through it very happy