KitchenAid SSA Sausage Stuffer Kit Attachment for Food Grinder
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of KitchenAid SSA Sausage Stuffer Kit Attachment for Food Grinder
Customer Review: One star is too generous
Summary: 1 Stars
Like the title says, I'm giving this product a one star rating because there's nothing lower. I bought this along with the KA mixer for myself for Christmas.
Like one reviewer stated, this thing fails horribly on three points:
The plunger has no seal, so the ground forcemeat just pushes back out instead of going down to the worm gear.
The worm gear doesn't seal either, so the plunger lets air into the chamber and the worm gear pushes it into the casing, creating air pockets in your sausage.
The stuffer is too high above the worksurface. I wound up putting mine in a kitchen chair beside the counter and using textbooks to raise it to the right level.
If you plan on making even moderate amounts of sausage, just do the smart thing and get a sausage stuffer. There is a very sturdy, highly recommended 5# model on the web, just search for stuffers and look in the $80 price range.
There's not one thing about this product that I can compliment, except maybe that it's cheap enough that I don't feel like I blew a lot of money on a piece of garbage.
Customer Review: Good replacement for my other stuffer
Summary: 4 Stars
This easily replaced another plastic sausage stuffer I had on my Krups meat grinder that was damaged. Works great! Customer Review: Doesn't work.
Summary: 1 Stars
There's about 3 different thing happening that doesn't allow this to work. First, the plunger doesn't create a seal while trying to push ground meat down the feeder. It works well for grinding cubes of meat but ground meat oozes up the sides of the plunger when trying to push meat down. This creates a great seal when you're trying to pull the plunger back out and now you have a vacuum which sucks any meat in the worm back out.
Second, the worm doesn't create a good seal pushing food to the sausage funnel so you can't drop ground meat down the chute and expect it to come out the stuffer. Once again great for grinding meat but not for pushing ground meat through.
Third, when you finally get meat through you'll get big pockets of air in your casing that made their way through the worm due to the suction problems mentioned in problem #1 above.
If you want the most frustrating experience every with your mixer you can try this. It is cheap but I'm investing in a real sausage stuffer that allows me to enjoy the full process of making sausage and not finish by being throughly frustrated during the last step.
Customer Review: Completes my Kitchenaid attachments
Summary: 5 Stars
Now I can grind and stuff my own sausage, just like Henny Penny making bread. And if no one helps me I will eat it all myself!Customer Review: very useful
Summary: 4 Stars
This worked quite well, it does take some practice to figure out the best way to use it, as it is not 100% fool proof. We made some great sausages with it, though, so definitely give it a try!