KitchenAid Sausage Stuffer Attachment
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Sausage Makers Friend
These tubes work well for making the two sizes of sausage--breakfast links and italian/chorizo--using natural casings. I do wish they had a very narrow tube for using the small-diameter collagen casings for making smoked venison sausage sticks (like Slim Jims).
January 21, 2011
Easy to use
Easy to use although you need to purchase the meat grinder in order to use it. Any attachment for this machine is A+.
December 15, 2010
great price but slow
This was a great price for an attachment to my mixer. I was trying to make polish sausages and it was very slow at pushing the meat out of the stuffer. My husband thinks that chilling the ground meat overnight might have pushed it through better, but no where in the instruction book did it say anything about meat temperature and its effects on the stuffer. Will have to try again next hunting season and see how it goes.
February 7, 2011
Super Sausage
My son bagged his first deer and we wanted the attachment for making sausage, etc. It works great. He has made some super sausage with it. Thanks to the deer and the sausage stuffer, my son is taking great joy in cooking.
October 20, 2010
KitchenAid Sausage Stuffer
The KitchenAid Sausage Stuffer takes a bit of practice to get used to and we found that it took the two of us to manage stuffing some breakfast sausage. One of us managed holding the sausage coming out of the stuffer while the other managed stuffing ground port into the food hopper. Two problems we had with the process that made it take longer than we had hoped for.
(1) It takes a considerable amount of force to get the ground pork moving through the grinder screw and into small breakfast sausage casings.
(2) The standard KitchenAid meat grinder pusher doesn't work very well for this operation. The amount of force required pushes meat around the pusher and because of its shape, it creates an occlusive seal that pulls the meat out of the grinder screw when you pull it out to put in more meat. This creates air pockets in the system that are a pest to deal with.
I suspect that neither of these problems will be as significant when stuffing larger sized casings.
I'm going to try to work around the problems by making my own pusher.
April 27, 2010
Good for occasional use
My husband and I have made sausage twice and I think this attachment is adequate for the occasional user. If I was going to make a ton of sausage I would probably invest in a more industrial strength sausage stuffer. For small batches for home use it is easy to use and gets sufficient results!
June 23, 2009
Sausage Stuffer Heaven!!
After 30 years of making sausage using my hand grinder this attachment takes all the pain out of it. The recommended speed for my Kitchenaid is perfect and stops on a dime when I need to twist and tie the sausage. The pusher attachment is exactly the right size for filling the casings. Grandpa always said `If you can't make sausage, you can't do dirt!'
August 6, 2008
Kitchen Aid could do much better
It works, but design problems make it a pain. The diameter of the accessory for pushing the sausage into the stuffer is too small. As you push down, the sausage mix oozes up around the bottom of the pusher. You end up spending a lot of time scraping sausage mix from this pusher. When you need it to stop for a moment to twist a casing or whatever, turning it off is not instantaneous - the motor has to wind down - this causes minor irritations - you often want it to stop RIGHT NOW! One person operation is not possible. One person has to man the casing while a second party pushes the mix into the chamber, cleaning the pusher as described, after every push. I think a manual stuffer would be a better idea.
July 13, 2008