Originally Posted by
Robertbrown
I make sausage every year from deer and wild hog. I usually grind the meat with a hand grinder but this year I used my spouses Kitchenaid mixer with the meat grinder attachments. The first thing I notice was than the motor is only 300watts, secondly the throat of the grinder is barely an 1-1/4".
After 4 hours and 10 pounds of sausage, I can tell you that this device is like a leatherman it will do many things but won't do any of them particularly well. It's a meat grinder and it certainly grinds meat. But I would have been done sooner with a hand grinder. I would not recomend this grinder for quanities of meat larger than a pound or two.If you are going to make sauage regularly with fairly large quanitities of wild meat get a hand grinder or one that draws at least 6 amps.
Since wild meat has more sinew than domestic you need more power or you spend hours trimming and avoiding the trimming is why you make sausage in the first place.
The kitchenaid grinder attachment is good for occasionally grinding a pound or 2 of beef or pork of the domestic variety but it's overwhelmed with a decent sized deer or (wild) hog ham