Finally got the Kitchenaid meat grinder. Help please.

[Mike981]

Looking forward to making our own ground beef, do you have any good places to start researching?
And what else do you use this tool for?

Thank you.

[Donw]

If you are interested in sausages of any kind, whether just quick breakfast types or more interesting ones:

https://www.meatsandsausages.com/sausage-recipes

[Ace]

With that meat grinder attachment, you can use any cut of meat that you might want. Beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc.
Here's a nice video that you might find helpful. He shows a standard type meat grinder but the Kitchenaid works the same. Hope it helps...

[JeffJ]

I have a Gourmia grinder and my go to is chuck roast. I’ll make burger Patties, meat for chili or tacos, and will use the finer hole screen for making coney sauce.

[jtw]

I've been using mine occasionally for a while now. Make sure everything is nice and tightened up when you attach it, and keep all the metal parts cold. I start with my blades and auger in the freezer, and you want the meat to be very cold and firm when you grind it.

[JeffJ]

100% this. Very cold meat and freezer cold metal parts is very important. I will go so far as to put the meat in the freezer too. A good half hour uncovered.

[jlazar]

+2

[CaptainMike]

Did you get the plastic or aluminum housing? If metal then do not put it in the dishwasher, it will tarnish it. I hand wash all of my parts immediately after grinding.

[Steve B]

HouseHomey He uses his all the time.
Hopefully he will chime in. I have the attachment but haven’t used it very much as of yet.

[Dewesq55]

I use mine to make cranberry orange relish every Thanksgiving.

[jfmorris]

I've ground Boston butts into sausage, just bulk breakfast sausage that I made into little 1 pound rolls like you get at the store, no casings involved. Cube it up small enough to feed the grinder, and mix all the fat and lean together, with spices, before shoving through the grinder. Also - freeze the GRINDER if it is metal AND the meat for about 30 minutes first. Cold works best. Warm grinder and meat cause things to gum up. A butt has less fat than expected and the sausage did not lose much fat when cooking.

Back when I was getting choice brisket on sale for $1.99 a pound at Kroger, I would buy briskets and cut up fat and all and mix up, then grind into my own ground beef for burgers. Great stuff, and leaner than I expected despite all the fat on the brisket.

But that is about it. I got the grinder just to have one, but its a lot of work and mess. As others said - do not put the metal grinder parts in the dishwasher unless you want that silver metal to turn black or gray permanently.

[Santamarina]

All the years I got Prime packers from Costco for crazy cheap it was my favorite for ground beef. Like you, I’d run a whole packer through and the blend was perfect for just about anything I wanted to make.

Here in TN it’s no longer the cheapest cut - in CA it was $2/lb or more cheaper than ANYTHING I could get at the market save a big sale.

[Mike981]

Did you get the plastic or aluminum housing? If metal then do not put it in the dishwasher, it will tarnish it. I hand wash all of my parts immediately after grinding.

Thank you, I have the aluminum housing.

[jfmorris]

Good choice. I feel like the plastic one will break much sooner. Hand wash and use the brush they give you and you will be golden. I store mine in the box it came in - nice compartments for everything to store in.

[CaptainMike]

Wut Jim sed.

[Dewesq55]

I have the plastic one. It has held up will, although I don't use it very much.

[RichieB]

What everyone said. Enjoy and pictures please.