KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers

Thursday, March 8, 2012

KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers

Product Functions

Grinder attachment greatly expands a stand mixer's flexiblity
Ideal for grinding meats, grating cheese, making bread crumbs and combining dips, salsas, spreads
Consists of fine and coarse grinding plates, helpful hints, and recipes
Most parts dishwasher secure for uncomplicated clean-up
Grinder can be used with any KitchenAid stand mixer

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
List Price : ~~$64.99~~
Price : $42.95
You Save : $22.04 (34%)

Item Description

Amazon.com Assessment
This tool increases the enjoyable aspect of your KitchenAid stand mixer a variety of times over. Toss cubes of meat into the food tray, stomp 'em down, and watch the outcomes wriggle out the front. Grind your personal beef or chicken for patties or tacos. Blend your personal sausage mixtures, from breakfast to boudin blanc. With extra attachments, you can turn it into a pasta maker or a sausage stuffer. It really is uncomplicated to assemble and use. Most parts are dishwasher-safe hand wash the grinding blades, food stomper, and cutting knife. --Betsy Danheim
Immediately grind meats, firm fruits, and vegetables, dry bread, and cheese. Consists of coarse and fine grinder plates, hardwood stomper, and wrench. Assists make meatloaves, spreads, relishes, bread crumbs, and countless other tasty dishes. Fits all KitchenAid stand mixers.

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Product Functions

Grinder attachment greatly expands a stand mixer's flexiblity
Ideal for grinding meats, grating cheese, making bread crumbs and combining dips, salsas, spreads
Consists of fine and coarse grinding plates, helpful hints, and recipes
Most parts dishwasher secure for uncomplicated clean-up
Grinder can be used with any KitchenAid stand mixer

Buyer Reviews

Given all the concerns about e-coli and mad cow, we decided last year to start off grinding our personal beef and lamb. This grinder does the job perfectly. We grind right 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 suitable 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 very easy (place a slice of bread through following the meat to make it even much easier, or grind up an onion if you're generating meatloaf anyway). The knife and both plates retailer inside the screw cap, so I don't be concerned about losing them (even though KitchenAid sells replacements, as does goodmans-dot-net). The grinder even comes with a handy wrench-thingy to aid 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 perfect following washing, but I place everything, which includes the wooden stomper, appropriate in the dishwasher, and right after extra than a year nothing has had a dilemma.
[...] - this isn't an industrial tool! You can't set the mixer speed above three or four when grinding (less if the meat is gristly), and you have got to cut up the meat compact adequate to fit in the feed tube (the directions say a single-inch cubes, but extended strips function also). Treat this right and it will return the favor.
About the only issue that would make this much more great is a cylindrical brush to clean out the horizontal and vertical shafts, considering that the dishwasher spray can't seriously totally reach both, and the horizontal shaft has a screw thread that tends to catch crud (Perfect now I'm utilizing a folded sponge, and the abovementioned bread slice).

I function in the food industry, so I'm unfortunately comparing this to its commercial counterparts. If you have little batches of meat to be ground at a time, this grinder is so substantially much better than the crank grinders and gets the job carried out 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 way more prone than ever to obtaining silver skin and grizzle wrapped around it, forcing you to stop and clean it routinely all through the proccess. Way more so than most other grinders.
Stomper: They call this a stomper? Are you significant? I have the new model that does not come with a wooden stomper, but as an alternative has a plastic contraption that acts each as a wrench and a stomper. It really is not solid in design, and is very smaller than the hole so it tends to pull way more meat up when you pull it out than it pushes down to start with.
Because there is no gasket that comes with this and almost everything is plastic, the seals aren't true tight, and meat tends to squirt out around the plate pretty often. This isn't a genuine major deal unless you happen to be seeking for a distinct texture, as for sausage.
Horrible grind. Based on all the other faults with this machine, you will never reach that spectacular solid grind that you see with commercially ground meat. It really is more of a squishy mess, even with the huge dye plate.
Very good luck stuffing sausage. I spent thirty minutes fighting this machine to get ground meat into the casing with rather little luck. I managed a single link in that amount of time, gave up, and right away ordered a Grizzly sausage stuffer (which is absolutely fantastic, but that is a different assessment).
I am pretty pleased with the ease of clean up. 1 of those bristle wands that you use for scrubbing cups works outstanding for acquiring in the grooves of the attachment as nicely as in the holes of the grinder plate. Just don't forget to hand dry the metal parts straight away or you'll have rust everywhere. I store all my parts in a zip lock back with some rice to preserve them together and dry.
So if you just require something smaller to make a quick batch of burgers or meatloaf with incredibly small effort, this is a good deal. But if you are trying to make significant amounts of sausage of the same quality that you would get in a meat market place, you could want to keep looking.