| | |  | OUTDOOR LIVING | Home » » KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers | | | | | | | Description: | | 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. | | | Features: | |
• 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 2.1 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.2 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 211 reviews |
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Does What You'd ExpectNov 16, 2009
We've used this a couple of times and it has performed well. It's not perfect, in the following ways: 1) It does not handle fat very well; after awhile the fat gets stuck in the holes of the plate and you need to take a couple of minutes to clear it out. 2) It spits raw meat juices sometimes rather far! 3) You need to feed it manually and use the pusher to keep it going. While this is no surprise, to get a fifth star, Kitchenaid would need to come up with a better way of the thing feeding the meet more automatically. 4) The first couple of batches have produced several small globs of machine grease in the ground meat! While I am sure this will go away once the machine is broken in, it does make me wonder whether the grease is necessary for proper operation. If not, why does it ship from the factory without being internally cleaner? This leads me to #5) The manual says nothing about the grease (i.e. whether it is normal or whether it needs to be re-greased ever, etc.). By the way, the picture shows a wooden stomper, but ours shipped with a white plastic version, which is fine (though likely to break eventually).
Still, this grinder does what we expected, and as long as it lasts a long time, we'll be very satisfied. Overall, we are happy with it (so far).
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 metal shavingsNov 14, 2009
Like some other reviewers, I had problems with metal shavings getting in my food. At first, I saw some "gray gunk" coming out of the center of the grind plate and into my meat. I disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, and ran the grinder dry to find out what was happening. The metal pieces (blade and plate) appear to rub against each other and produce metal filings.
KitchenAid refused to acknowledge the problem and suggested that I had overtightened it. I had only hand-tightened it like the directions stated, yet the problem wouldn't go away even after using it for a while. Disappointed, I returned it to the store.
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 Good, but needs a little improvementNov 02, 2009
It really is a savings on your grocery budget if you can grind your own meats. This is a good attachment for the Kitchen Aid. The only thing I can see that could be better are the holes in the grinder blade. They could stand to be a little bigger. As they are now, the meat tends to get mushy instead of grounded.
 Solid Product!Oct 29, 2009
I was a little hesitant with the plastic looking outside, but all the insides are steel and the construction is solid. This attachment works exactly as described. Bought some prime top sirloins on sale at the HEB for 3.99/lb and made some killer ground beef sauteed with onions that my 2 year olds absolutely tore up. Also had some natural porkchops that are hard for the boys to chew, ground that up and pan seared them, the boys ate everything and were asking for more. I think this will also help them digest the food better. Made the wife and myself some meatballs that turned out fabulous. If you're worried about cleanup, run an onion or carrot through at the end, I actually did both and used them in my meatballs. Fantastic.
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Good enough!Oct 28, 2009
I purchased this meat grinder attachment because I have decided to start using ground chicken in place of ground beef in most of my recipes. It's hard to find ground chicken for whatever reason. The grinder is made of mostly plastic which worries me a little bit but I have tried it and it seems to work great. I suppose it's a little bit easier than using one of the old aluminum ones-those can't go in the dishwasher. With ground chicken I feel better with the ability to put the utensils in the dishwasher on the sanitize mode and most of the parts of this grinder are dishwasher safe-with the exception of the blade and the grinding discs. So far, it works good enough! I'm curious to see how well it works when it's time for me to grind my figs for my Christmas cookies!
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