The food grinder attachment was easy to assemble and attach, and the instructions were clear. When run on 4, as the instructions advised, it ground quickly and evenly. I've ground beef and lamb through it with no problems. You do have to actively shove the meat down into the unit with the plunger; its design makes it very safe and easy to do so, but with the attachment mounted above the mixer it's a little awkward if you're reaching up to do this for very long. Next time I might try setting the mixer on the kitchen table to lower the overall height, but I don't think this would be a major problem unless you were very short (I'm 5'6") or had a *lot* of grinding to do. The attachment disassembles easily for an easy, thorough cleaning; the tip someone provided of running a couple of pieces of bread through at the end really does help with clean up. Overall I am very satisfied and would highly recommend this attachment, and it provides yet another reason that I would recommend the Kitchenaid mixer line as well.

I bought this food grinder attachment to replace an old self contained food grinder and this is much better than my other food grinder. I mainly us it to grind my own chicken burger. It is faster, easier to clean and does a better job at grinding the fresh chicken breasts. I would recommend it to anyone with a KitchenAid stand mixer.

LO UNICO QUE TENGO QUE HACER ES CONECTAR EL MOLINO DE ALIMENTOS A MI BATIDORA Y MOLER TODA CLASE DE CARNES, YO LO USO MAS QUE TODO PARA MOLER POLLO Y PAVO, DEMASIADO BUENO.

I got it as a gift for a good friend of mine. She had been wanting one for a while. She seems to enjoy it. First thing she used it for was to make ground beef for chili, which was delicious. She said it worked great and had no complaints other than that it was difficult and gross to clean. But I guess I would expect this from something that grinds meat. Apparently if you use it to grind bread afterwards it gets all of the unwanted leftover flesh out of the grinder. But I guess from what she said I would consider buying one for my kitchenaid and therefore would recommend it to others.

Love this attachment for making apricot jam. My daughter has one and we have been exchanging back & forth for about 5 years, I finally realized I needed one of my own. The only way to go!!

I bought this one for my DH. He has been really happy with it, but I should say this is not a commercial food grinder that you will be able to grind up 90 lbs of meat at a time without any babying. The first time we used it, we learned quickly that any of the white connective tissue will clog the grinding plates. For our home use, making a little bit of ground meat here and there, this works great. We bought it with the sausage stuffer attachment and made some great deer sausages.

My wife thinks it works well. Makes all our breakfast sausage. Just follow directions about how different foods grind best and you'll get good results.

The food grinder works nicely for grinding walnuts. With hazlenuts I had problem because they are tougher. I have to process it first and then grind it. The machine gets hot after a while using it for grinding. However the main concern that I have is that the metalic parts are not stainless steal and after washing should be dried out carefully. Otherwise you see the patch of rust all over it and should scrub them out. For such price I expected a little more attention to details like this.

As an avid reader of money saving blogs and web sites (Dollar Stretcher is a favorite) I read many times about the cost savings of purchasing a roast and having it ground by the butcher. My mom does this at her Publix grocery store in Florida but my local grocery store in Wisconsin refuses to do it. Hello KA FGA! I am completely impressed by what a fantastic job it does. It grinds perfectly to the texture I want. After several experiments, my family actually prefers the coarser texture for certain dishes (tacos especially.) I love the fact that I can buy a couple of hunks of Black Angus boneless roasts when it goes on sale for $1.99/lb. and come home and grind it myself to my exact specs. Not only is it much less expensive than the high fat pre-ground stuff, it is much safer. The less surface area to a piece of meat, the better. The FGA is a fantastic cost saving tool. I find it easy to assemble, use and clean. As I buy in bulk, I only use it about once every 5 or 6 weeks. There is a small bit of buildup inside but such a small amount it does not affect anything. If one were grinding up a huge amount of high fat meat, I would stop and clean it out. Should take you no more than 20 seconds total. Love this attachment. It has already paid for itself!

The grinder attachment works perfectly every time. For raw meat I grind it twice and the texture comes out just right. I suggest grinding the meat when it's half-defrosted as I noticed the meat gets stuck easily when it is completely defrosted or fresh.

Like other reviewers have suggested, try to keep the job done in 15 minutes as the motor in the mixer can get really warm and feels like it's about to burn out...! I would even suggest 10 minutes at a time as I don't want to overworked my mixer and end up paying big $$$ for the repair!! And I also suggest getting the optional "plate" for a larger work area on top, perfect for grinding the meat the second time without having to scoop-press-scoop-press...

Cleanup is easy with a dishwasher, or handwash with a brush. Just use extra dishwashing liquid as the plastic can get greasy! Overall I'm satisfied with my purchase.

I like this product, with one exception. The plastic pusher should be made of wood, it seems a little on the flimsy side being made from plastic.

If you want to kill or ruin your K'Aid Mixer, then this accessory is the perfect one to do it!!

I bought this piece of junk last year and thought; "Oh, goody!!! Now I got a food grinder for my K'Aid mixers." Boy, was I wrong!!! This unit is just a worthless piece of junk that should be left right where you see it; on the store shaelves!!!

I went to use this for the very first time, and it made my K-5SS Stand Mixer's motor start to labor badly - amost to the point where it was about to stop working and die altogether!!

Liquid had leaked into the transmission and messed up the gears badly!! I was almost faced with a $125.00 repair bill!!! I had to finish the job with this unit attached to the smaller K-45SS.

But luckily, the mixer began to rebound in the days ahead and has mended itself back up to full operating speed!! It works fine now. But as a precaution, I sent this ill-fated piece of junk back to where I bought it from!!

I've since bought a separate electric food grinder, which works beautifully!! Do yourself a favor. leave this in the stores!! Also, it's shown with a wooden pusher. That it false advertising because, ;like the rest of the unit, the pusher is plastic now, had been for a long while!!!

Don't buy this. It's and ill-fated piece of junk!!!!!!!!!


~Daquan13.

As some others have indicated, these KitchenAid blender attachments are more or less novelties... not made to the same "industrial" standards as the blenders themselves... but still functional. I bought one despite all the warnings, and I'm glad I did. If you follow the directions and don't overload it, it does a decent job. I've used it to make ham and turkey salad, and on leftover chicken breasts for Quesadillas. If you take your time and you only need to prepare enough for a meal, I don't think you will be disappointed. Just don't plan on grinding a whole deer for venison sausage.

For what I wanted this meat grinder for, it did not work at all. It's too small and just to weak. The meat I was grinding backed up and hopelessly overheated my kitchenaid machine.
Maybe it would work well for lean soft meats.

I just started to grind my own meat due to the high cost of food and I purchased this last month and I love it. It does a top notch job at grinding all sorts of meat. I purchased a whole chicken, cut it up, and ground the skin and all and it didn't miss a beat. I've also ground lamb and sirloin and it worked well with those too. I would highly recommend it. Clean up is easy too. It comes apart easily and all the pieces cleaned up nicely.

Very nice product and works very well grinding with little effort. It surprised me it worked this well. I recommend buying as attachment for Kitchen Aid Mixer. My wife uses it for meat and vegetables and is completely satisfied.

I bought the KitchenAid Food Grinder because I bought my husband the Kitchen Aid Mixer and he loves hamburger but it has become so expensive and we try to eat the one with less fat. With the Kitchen Aid Grinder, we can watch for sales on all kinds of beef and grind it in the grinder and it is cheaper and absolutely delicious. We also make a sandwich which all my family loves. You ask the deli for a chunk of bologna 1/2 0r 1lb. (depends on how much you want) Then get a lg jar of polish spears or just some kind of dill pickles. Take the bologna and grind it, then take 1/2 jar of pickles for 1/2 lb bologna (1 jar for lb.) Grind the pickles into another bowl. Mix together with mayonaisse (we like Helmanns the best). Its up to you how much of the pickle juice you'll want if you wnat more flavor put some juice in, just try not to get it to wet. If you have or get a grinder I hope you'll try this. It sounds awful to people but once they taste it they usually get hooked. Again a great machine and I'm sure you can come up with some other recipes or ways to use it. If you do I'd love to have you share them with me. My email is: [...]

Easy to use. Pretty easy to clean up. Works great. Has several uses but I buy chuck roasts on sale then cut part for shish-kebabs and part in strips (faster and easier than chunks)to feed into the grinder (2x) for hamburgers, meatloaf etc. When I was checking reviews I read only a couple negatives from people who expected this to grind up anything/any size, like a commercial unit. Just treat it nicely and don't expect it to be what it isn't.

We needed a meat grinder and our old manual one was beyond safe use. Researched manufacturer's website, then on to Amazon to get reviews & price. Both were so good we ordered via overnight delivery. Works great -- my wife enjoyed her ground up roast beef with gherkins and mayo the next day! Excellent price, service, and easy process.

It worked pretty well; however, I found it would bind if a little grisle went in with the meat. Cleaning the grisle from the hole plate was time consuming and not the easiest task I have completed.

All-in-all, I would still buy this as it did it's job!

Bought this product to make sausage. I made 36 pounds of breakfast sausage the first time with no issues. It worked great but make sure you use small peices of meat when using this attachment.

I highly recommend this product. It grinds much better than expected and has yielded great hamburgers and a great meatloaf. I have only tried grinding meat thus far, but the product can grind other foods like bread, cheese, etc.
If you want to be able to grind your own meat, so that you know exactly what is in your burgers, then this grinder is for you.
The price is also reasonable.

I just got my grinder attachment and used it to grind up about 3 1/2 pounds of chuck roast. I cut the meat in small pieces and put them in partially frozen. It worked as expected, but it's incrediby messy. Blood and bits of meat were everywhere. Drops of blood and fat were shooting out onto me, the counter, my kids, the floor. I solved this by turning the mixer sideways ( I had been standing in front of it and I'm not very tall) and taping a paper towel to the front of the food tray so it would hang down in front of where the meat comes out and act as a kind of mud flap. I only had to take the grinder assembly off once to clean it, which is pretty good considering some of the reviews on this site.
All in all, it was more work than I thought it would be and it took longer, but I guess it did what it was supposed to do.

I have worn out my old food grinder, so replaced it with this one, which is essentially the same. It arrived in good condition and in good time. I am happy with my purchase.

Tried the grinder on chicken breasts still slightly frozen. In order to feed into the grinder, you need to have precut the meat into long slices a few inches wide. When the meat was soft enough to cut, I cut it and fed it into the grinder. Tissue from the chicken blocked the plates with holes on it, preventing chicken from coming out, and attempts to push it through with the food poker resulted in back spray of raw chicken juice on me, clothes, cabinets, counter, etc. It took a very long time to grind the two breasts; I probably could have diced them by hand in a fraction of the time. Next time I will try to cut the chicken into slices first, then freeze it, then feed it through well frozen. Wish me luck.

KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers

this product easily attaches to a Kitchen Aid mixer and work extremely well. It is a cinch to clean and assemble

KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers THIS ATTACHMENT WAS A VERY GOOD ADDITION TO MY KITCHENAID MIXER.I USE THIS ALOT FOR A NUMBER OF THINGS FROM GRINDING MEATS TO MAKING BREADING FOR FOODS.

This attachment rocks! We use this thing all the time; it grinds chicken up perfectly and grates cheese with ease.

I am very happy with the way this product works. We use the KitchenAid for many different projects.

I am well pleased with the meat grinder. It did every thing I thought it would.

I didn't like the fact that the attachment is made from plastic (looks cheap compared to the kitchen aid mixer base) and also if you need something powerful this is not for you. The recommended speed is 4 which is pretty slow.

I used to use a hand grinder to grind our own hamburger but it was hard, slow, and very inefficient. Grinding a couple of pounds of burger could take an hour or more. When I got my Kitchenaid mixer the first thing I did was buy the grinder, slicer, and pasta maker attachment kit. When everything arrived I purchased 1 1/2lbs of chuck steak, got out the book to read how to put the grinder on the mixer, turned around and saw that my husband already had it on and ready to go, it's that easy! I sliced the meat into 1" x 5" strips and started dropping them in. It was amazing watching the hamburger come pouring out. (They recommend double grinding meat to give it the right texture and I agree with this.) Less than 20 minutes later I was cooking fresh ground, LEAN hamburger for dinner. Cleanup was equally as easy, unscrew the chuck holding it to the mixer and take the whole thing to the sink. Then just unscrew the cap, pull out the plate, blade, and "worm", and wash with warm soapy water or throw it in the dishwasher. I used it the next night for chicken and it was just as easy and delicious too! My only complaint is that the food pusher isn't quite large enough for the hole so if you double grind the meat like they recommend it may push some back up around the pusher but it's a mild annoyance.

I've read the many positive reviews for this grinder and agree with most of the comments. However, if you want to grind gristle, bone, cartiledge and other tough meat (such as for pet food), this is not the grinder for you. It works well for hamburger, sausage, etc but it takes time compared to a heavy duty grinder (1/2 hp and above) which can grind pounds and pounds of meat in minutes. The narrow throat on this grinder requires you to cut meat into 1" chunks; a heavy duty grinder can take fist size pieces and grind them without effort. If you want a home attachment and can live with precutting, slow speed and occasional jams, this can work for you. If you have a lot of meat to grind (hunters, sausage lovers, etc), I might suggest a commercial grinder which costs about as much as the KitchenAid mixer. I love making sausages and went to a heavy duty grinder (get one with metal gears and not the cheap plastic gears) and I think you'll be happier in the long run. I realize I am one of the few reviewers with negative comments about this grinder attachment but serious meat grinders and sausage makers would probably agree with me. For occasional grinders, this attachment will work; for serious grinders, go heavier duty.

the food grinder is the attachment for my stand mixer that i use the most. a must have for anyone with a kitchenaid stand mixer.

Fantastic! Easy to use and clean. Love being able to grind my own fresh ground beef or a combo of meats for meat loaf! This really adds to the use of my KitchenAid Stand Mixer.