KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 7 x 7 inches ; 2.1 pounds


• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)


• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.


• ASIN: B00004SGFH


• Item model number: FGA
  

By : KitchenAid
Price : $42.95
You Save : $22.04 (34%)

Item Description

Amazon.com Review

This tool increases the enjoyable 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 personal beef or chicken for patties or tacos. Blend your own sausage mixtures, from breakfast to boudin blanc. With additional attachments, you can turn it into a pasta maker or a sausage stuffer. It is straightforward to assemble and use. Most parts are dishwasher-secure hand wash the grinding blades, food stomper, and cutting knife. --Betsy Danheim

Have to have bread crumbs? Or perhaps you like producing your personal lamb, chicken or pork burgers, or sausages? Then once more maybe you make infant food at property to keep away from artificial components? For all of these tasks you can enlist the assist of your powerful KitchenAid stand mixer thanks to this fabulous attachment.

 

KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers

 

Product Characteristics

• Grinder attachment tremendously expands a stand mixer's flexiblity


• Ideal for grinding meats, grating cheese, creating bread crumbs and combining dips, salsas, spreads


• Includes fine and coarse grinding plates, guidelines, and recipes


• Most parts dishwasher safe for easy clean-up


• Grinder can be implemented with any KitchenAid stand mixer

Costumer Evaluations

Given all the concerns about e-coli and mad cow, we decided final year to commence grinding our personal beef and lamb. This grinder does the job perfectly. We grind correct into the brief 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 perfect into the pot for bolognese sauce or sloppy joes. ("Honey, would you bring me up a couple of hockey pucks for dinner?)

Assembly is straightforward and cleanup is simple (put a slice of bread through soon after the meat to make it even easier, or grind up an onion if you happen to be creating meatloaf anyway). The knife and both plates shop inside the screw cap, so I do not 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 would not hold an edge), so you do have to dry them off proper just after washing, but I put almost everything, such as the wooden stomper, appropriate in the dishwasher, and following much more than a year absolutely nothing has had a situation.

[...] - this isn't an industrial tool! You can't set the mixer speed above three or 4 when grinding (less if the meat is gristly), and you've got to cut up the meat compact enough to fit in the feed tube (the instructions say one-inch cubes, but long strips operate too). Treat this right and it will return the favor.

About the only thing that would make this significantly more ideal is a cylindrical brush to clean out the horizontal and vertical shafts, since the dishwasher spray cannot actually fully reach both, and the horizontal shaft has a screw thread that tends to catch crud (Suitable now I'm utilizing a folded sponge, and the abovementioned bread slice).

I work in the food industry, so I am regrettably comparing this to its commercial counterparts. If you have modest batches of meat to be ground at a time, this grinder is so considerably greater than the crank grinders and gets the job accomplished in a quarter of the time. I nevertheless use it, but here's what I don't like about it:

The blade is junk. It does not cut the meat at all, and is additional prone than ever to finding silver skin and grizzle wrapped around it, forcing you to quit and clean it regularly all through the proccess. Extra so than most other grinders.

Stomper: They call this a stomper? Are you critical? I have the new model that does not come with a wooden stomper, but rather has a plastic contraption that acts each as a wrench and a stomper. It really is not solid in design, and is really smaller than the hole so it tends to pull alot more meat up when you pull it out than it pushes down to start with.

Given that there is no gasket that comes with this and every little thing is plastic, the seals are not true tight, and meat tends to squirt out about the plate rather frequently. This isn't a genuine big deal unless you are looking for a certain texture, as for sausage.

Horrible grind. Based on all the other faults with this machine, you will in no way reach that wonderful solid grind that you see with commercially ground meat. It's a great deal more of a squishy mess, even with the massive dye plate.

Superior luck stuffing sausage. I spent thirty minutes fighting this machine to get ground meat into the casing with incredibly tiny luck. I managed one link in that amount of time, gave up, and immediately ordered a Grizzly sausage stuffer (which is definitely impressive, but that's an additional evaluation).

I am particularly pleased with the ease of clean up. A single of those bristle wands that you use for scrubbing cups functions great for receiving in the grooves of the attachment as nicely as in the holes of the grinder plate. Just do not forget to hand dry the metal parts right away or you will have rust everywhere. I store all my parts in a zip lock back with some rice to maintain them together and dry.

So if you just want some thing smaller to make a rapid batch of burgers or meatloaf with very little effort, this is a good deal. But if you are attempting to make significant amounts of sausage of the similar high quality that you would locate in a meat industry, you may well want to maintain seeking.

 

KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers