Kitchen Aid Attachments

[barrowboy]

Hi,

New to the forum - I've just acquired grinders and sausage filling kit for my Kitchen Aid food mixer.

Has anyone used these and how do they shape up compared to specialist equipment. Any hints on their use?

Sausage making starts this weekend!

[Oddley]

Welcome to the forum barrowboy

I still use my Kenwood chef mincing attachment. It does a really good job so I suppose the kitchen aid would have a similar performance.

As for stuffing I had a few problems. The meat around the spindle used to get hot and go dark grey/black so my advice is keep the meat cold at all times. Bottom of fridge job -->0 c 5 c<--.

The pusher type stuffers are really good but at this stage, I would wait and see if I were going to continue to make sausages. Invest in one later perhaps.

[aris]

My mom has had a Kitchen Aid for about 30 years or so. Still going strong.

We used to use the sausage attachment to make Boerewors for many years. It is slow - but it goes work. It is fine for small-ish quantities and infrequent use.

[Franco]

I sometime use a sausage attachment on my electric mincer, the results are good for traditional English sausage as the worm seems to mush up the meat which is the type of consistency for a traditional sausage but for continental sausages where a coarser texture is required the sausage attachment isn't so good.



Franco

[Fatman]

Barrowboy

I too have a kitchenaid, they work well and will last you many years , however they are not up to the job of making sausage over a couple of lbs.If you are starting out, it is an inexpensive way to see if you like the art of sausage making.

Specialist equipment is the only way to move forward and with a little shopping around you can be fully equipped with surprisingly little money.

Regards

Fatman

[Epicurohn]

On another thread somebody suggested using the "K" beater on the KitchenAid mixer to mix meat, fat, water and spices. Even with the meat and fat at 40�F and only 1 min. of mixing a mushy texture was obtained versus 2 min. of hand mixing.

[sausagemaker]

I used the K Beater on my trials with the kitchen aid & found it to be OK but I only used speed 4 for 30 -40 seconds
please see link below

http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopic.php?t=493

regards
sausagemaker