Product Review – KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers
I love my KitchenAid stand mixer and use it often throughout the week for basic mixing, and even kneading my dough at times when baking bread. I also use the pasta roller attachment every time I make my homemade pasta, and the cutting attachments make it very simple to make fettuccine or linguine.
There are many other attachments and extras available for the KitchenAid stand mixers and it is difficult at times to decide if these extras are easy to use, worth the cost, or even if they actually work as advertised. I decided to include some product reviews from time to time for many of the kitchen tools I use, including the many KitchenAid attachments I have, to help folks decide if these items are something they would find useful as well.
I bought the KitchenAid Food Grinder & Sausage Stuffer attachments a few years back, and we use these items yearly when my family gets together to make our homemade Italian sausages. Although when I initially purchased the food grinder I was concerned that being plastic, the food grinder wouldn’t be durable enough to grind through 30 to 40 pounds of pork to make our sausages, I was very happy to find I was wrong.
The cutting dies are metal, and you get both a fine and coarse cutting plate. We use the coarse plate and find it creates the perfect texture for making our Italian sausages. The sausage stuffing attachment is extra, but very inexpensive and fits right onto the grinding attachment. It too comes with two different sizes, one that would stuff thinner sausages, link breakfast links, and the larger one we use to make our nice, fat Italian sausages.
KitchenAid Food Grinder Attachment
• Ideal for grinding meats, grating cheese, making bread crumbs and combining dips, salsas, spreads
• Grinder can be used with any KitchenAid stand mixer
• Includes fine and coarse grinding plates, tips, and recipes
• Most parts dishwasher safe for easy clean-up
Making your own sausages at home becomes very easy with these inexpensive attachment tools, and they do fit onto any KitchenAid stand mixer. Simply buy some boneless pork shoulder, some natural sausage casings, add your personal preference for seasonings and you too can have homemade sausages.
For the price, these two tools are well worth the cost if sausage making is something that interests you. Although it takes a little practice at first, you will quickly get the feel of sausage making if you follow my tips at Making Your Own Homemade Italian Sausages. Click on the image below to find out more information on this product at Amazon.com.
KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers @ Amazon.comDeborah Mele
January 2012
(Images courtesy of William Sonoma)
Thanks for a great review Deborah…and a good idea for those who are contemplating either purchasing their first Kitchen Aid stand mixer or those who would like to buy some of the attachments. My sister is one of those folks and when she spoke with me about it I told her about the pasta attachments, which I love. When she learned that making pasta is a “slam dunk” that takes no time at all she was thrilled (almost takes longer for the dough to dry enough to cut into the desired shape). I have used the grinder for making sausages a few years ago (borrowed from a friend) and we are contemplating getting one so we can grind our own meat…you know, all those ground meat scares can really put you off!
Phyllis, I love my Kitchen Aid, and although have had to replace my pasta roller a few times, it is a great machine and I love the attachments.
I bought this mixer for my kitchen. Damn the day it came to my house. It went to the repair company for fourteen (14) times and came back. I do not recommend it to no one. The stand mixer iis at the repair company. They said it has gurantee but the post and parcle did not include. TO ALL: I RECOMMEND THIS UTENSİL FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A LOT TIME, PATIENCE AND OF COURSE MONEY.
Sorry that you have had such problems. I have had my KitchenAid stand mixer for 15 years with no problems!
It works just as high as a metal one would! Like all the KitchenAid attachments, this would be able to attach well onto any of your standard KitchenAid mixers to increase efficiency as well as save any space. The coarse grinding plate enables you to make wonderfully ground meats when you want to make patties for burgers or maybe even a meatloaf.