Birdhunter1
Veteran Member
Anybody have one?
For Christmas this year I got my wife a Kitchenaide 5 quart Artisan mixer, she has always wanted one and she has been fairly quiet in the past year with a few firearm, reloading equipment and other tool purchases. So to reward her quietness and to keep the peace as best as I can it was her turn for a larger $$ item she has been wanting, I haven't got it for her in the past because she has never been a cooking nut like she is now, so for Christmas this year she is getting all sorts of kitchen stuff that she either needs but doesn't know she needs or that she wants but wouldn't spend the money to buy them for herself.
This past week we processed 3 deer and ground alot of meat into burger with my grandpa's old hand crank meat grinder. Now this grinder is great and won't balk from anything as long as you have the shoulder power for it, but the last few years older shoulder injuries are catching up to me and after doing the burger meat off of 3 deer I was hurting a bit. Usually she will grind to, but being 8 months pregnant I didn't want her to risk overdoing and injuring herself, so it was all me. Plus I figured I was fortunate enough to have a wife that enjoys this whoel butchering thing! By the time we were done with all of it we were both saying it woudl be nice to have an electric grinder.
Back to the mixer, I see that they also make a food grinder attacthment for this mixer. I am just wondering if anyone here has used this attachment on their kitchenaide mixer and how well it will grind meats? I know this mixer is not a lightweight easily breakable item but I also know how hard it was to grind some pieces of meat if you did not cut them into smaller cubes and instead threw a whole chunk in the grinder.
For Christmas this year I got my wife a Kitchenaide 5 quart Artisan mixer, she has always wanted one and she has been fairly quiet in the past year with a few firearm, reloading equipment and other tool purchases. So to reward her quietness and to keep the peace as best as I can it was her turn for a larger $$ item she has been wanting, I haven't got it for her in the past because she has never been a cooking nut like she is now, so for Christmas this year she is getting all sorts of kitchen stuff that she either needs but doesn't know she needs or that she wants but wouldn't spend the money to buy them for herself.
This past week we processed 3 deer and ground alot of meat into burger with my grandpa's old hand crank meat grinder. Now this grinder is great and won't balk from anything as long as you have the shoulder power for it, but the last few years older shoulder injuries are catching up to me and after doing the burger meat off of 3 deer I was hurting a bit. Usually she will grind to, but being 8 months pregnant I didn't want her to risk overdoing and injuring herself, so it was all me. Plus I figured I was fortunate enough to have a wife that enjoys this whoel butchering thing! By the time we were done with all of it we were both saying it woudl be nice to have an electric grinder.
Back to the mixer, I see that they also make a food grinder attacthment for this mixer. I am just wondering if anyone here has used this attachment on their kitchenaide mixer and how well it will grind meats? I know this mixer is not a lightweight easily breakable item but I also know how hard it was to grind some pieces of meat if you did not cut them into smaller cubes and instead threw a whole chunk in the grinder.