KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers
- Grinder attachment greatly expands a stand mixer’s flexiblity
- Ideal for grinding meats, grating cheese, making bread crumbs and combining dips, salsas, spreads
- Includes fine and coarse grinding plates, tips, and recipes
- Most parts dishwasher safe for easy clean-up
- Grinder can be used with any KitchenAid stand mixer
Need bread crumbs? Or perhaps you like making your own lamb, chicken or pork burgers, or sausages? Then again maybe you make baby food at home to avoid artificial ingredients? For all of these tasks you can enlist the help of your powerful KitchenAid stand mixer thanks to this fabulous attachment.This tool increases the fun factor of your KitchenAid stand mixer several times over. Toss cubes of meat into the food tray, stomp ‘em down, and watch the results wriggle out the front. Grind your own b
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the attachment workhorse,
I’ve used this attachment more times than I ever thought I would. I’ve used it to prepare food items for my family as well as food items for crowds as large as 200 and regardless of what it is I’ve been making, this attachment has rolled through it without complaint. In combination with other pieces such as the sausage stuffer or the fruit attachments, you may well find that this single attachment stays on your machine the longest.
I am absoultely stunned at how easy it is to put together and how simple it is to get wonderfully ground items out of it. I’ve had no trouble grinding any cut of meat (marbled or lean), type of meat (venison, beef, pork, chicken), or state of meat (cooked or raw). Things like chickpeas also get ground just the way I like them. The two, differently sized grinding plates give you just what you need in texture. My biggest pleasure in using this attachment is during hunting season when my husband brings home more than one deer. Venison burger meat and sausage processing never went faster. No more late nights with a hand-crank grinder!
When you’re done, there’s nothing simpler in the cleanup. Nothing seems to stick to the plastic (plus, it’s dishwasher safe!) and the metal pieces wash up quickly by hand. Even the little wooden stomper cleans well (and I’ve felt lost without it when I couldn’t find it during sausage making). I think this attachment is the easiest to use of all of the ones I’ve tried.
I’ll never regret the purchase of this attachment.
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|My most used attachment,
Given all the concerns about e-coli and mad cow, we decided last year to start grinding our own beef and lamb. This grinder does the job perfectly. We grind right into the short round Ziplock boxes (about a hamburger’s worth), which go into the basement freezer, and then we turn out the frozen “hockey pucks” onto a plate to defrost in the microwave, or right into the pot for bolognese sauce or sloppy joes. (“Honey, would you bring me up a couple of hockey pucks for dinner?)
Assembly is easy and cleanup is easy (put a slice of bread through after the meat to make it even easier, or grind up an onion if you’re making meatloaf anyway). The knife and both plates store inside the screw cap, so I don’t worry about losing them (though KitchenAid sells replacements, as does goodmans-dot-net). The grinder even comes with a handy wrench-thingy to help take it apart if it tightens up.
The knife and plates are not stainless (which wouldn’t hold an edge), so you do have to dry them off right after washing, but I put everything, including the wooden stomper, right in the dishwasher, and after more than a year nothing has had a problem.
[...] – this isn’t an industrial tool! You can’t set the mixer speed above three or four when grinding (less if the meat is gristly), and you’ve got to cut up the meat small enough to fit in the feed tube (the instructions say one-inch cubes, but long strips work too). Treat this right and it will return the favor.
About the only thing that would make this more perfect is a cylindrical brush to clean out the horizontal and vertical shafts, since the dishwasher spray can’t really completely reach both, and the horizontal shaft has a screw thread that tends to catch crud (Right now I’m using a folded sponge, and the abovementioned bread slice).
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|It gets the job done, but it’s nothing special.,
I work in the food industry, so I’m unfortunately comparing this to its commercial counterparts. If you have small batches of meat to be ground at a time, this grinder is so much better than the crank grinders and gets the job done in a quarter of the time. I still use it, but here’s what I don’t like about it:
The blade is junk. It doesn’t cut the meat at all, and is more prone than ever to getting silver skin and grizzle wrapped around it, forcing you to stop and clean it regularly throughout the proccess. More so than most other grinders.
Stomper: They call this a stomper? Are you serious??? I have the new model that does not come with a wooden stomper, but instead has a plastic contraption that acts both as a wrench and a stomper. It’s not solid in design, and is quite smaller than the hole so it tends to pull more meat up when you pull it out than it pushes down to begin with.
Since there is no gasket that comes with this and everything is plastic, the seals aren’t real tight, and meat tends to squirt out around the plate quite often. This isn’t a real big deal unless you’re looking for a specific texture, as for sausage.
Horrible grind. Based on all the other faults with this machine, you’ll never reach that beautiful solid grind that you see with commercially ground meat. It’s more of a squishy mess, even with the large dye plate.
Good luck stuffing sausage. I spent thirty minutes fighting this machine to get ground meat into the casing with very little luck. I managed one link in that amount of time, gave up, and immediately ordered a Grizzly sausage stuffer (which is absolutely amazing, but that’s another review).
I am very happy with the ease of clean up. One of those bristle wands that you use for scrubbing cups works great for getting in the grooves of the attachment as well as in the holes of the grinder plate. Just don’t forget to hand dry the metal parts immediately or you’ll have rust everywhere. I store all my parts in a zip lock back with some rice to keep them together and dry.
So if you just need something small to make a quick batch of burgers or meatloaf with very little effort, this is a great deal. But if you are trying to make large amounts of sausage of the same quality that you would find in a meat market, you may want to keep looking.
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