Chef’sChoice 796 Premium Food Grinder Attachment Designed to fit KitchenAid Stand Mixers, Silver,2 piece set

There's a review with photos showing what aluminum does when you stick it in the dishwasher. Yeah, don't stick it in the dishwasher. Even the steel parts can lose their sharp. I wash it all by hand and mine still looks and works great. And soap works fine for cleaning.Also there are zero aluminum shavings or whatever that other comment is. The cutting parts are steel.I've had this since 2017 and use it heavily for meat. Seven years service at this point and still going strong!

I bought this to fit on my KSM90 Kitchen Aid mixer which it does beautifully. I mostly grind chicken breasts with it and it does an outstanding job. It is easy to attach and disassemble. Sometimes I do not use the pan part, but just drop the meat parts down into the opening. One thing a buyer should be aware of is that all pieces except the pusher must be handwashed. I do not find this a problem. I just fill the sink with hot soapy water before I start grinding the meat. When I am through, as I take apart the grinder I just dump the pieces in the hot soapy water. They clean up quite easily. After washing and air drying or towel drying I give the metal pieces a spritz of vegetable cooking oil as per the simple instructions. Except for the pusher all the pieces are metal. It is so easy to use I grind up several pounds of meat at one time and freeze them. I can control the amount of fat and water in my own ground chicken or beef burgers. I love this thing and I am glad I spent the extra for it as opposed to the plastic Kitchen Aid one. I do recommend it.

I bought this after I slaughtered a herd of deer that were trespassing on my property last hunting season. 4 deer stepped into my yard, fell down, got shoved into this beast and came out to be some of the greatest jerky and bologna I've ever had.In all seriousness, I couldn't feed this grinder fast enough. For what I paid I didn't have high hopes, but this thing CHEWS through meat like nobodys business. I don't think I used the plunger more than twice and I ground up at least 200 lbs of venison. You won't go wrong with this meat grinder and is defiantly and excellent value for the price.

My son shot his first deer this year and we decided to make our own burger. I opted to buy this grinder attachment - my wife already had the KitchenAid Artisan Mixer - although, I think this works with any of the KitchenAid models. I nearly opted for the cheaper plastic one but chose to spend more on this one - there were some reviews on the plastic one that were concerning. I am so glad I got this one. It is an amazing product and very well worth every penny. I rarely write reviews but this product is really superb. We had our venison scrap cut up Sunday morning and I had partially frozen it and my son and I used this to grind up into burger. We did nearly 20 lbs of burger in maybe 15 minutes working together. It grinded awesome and worked perfectly. I would very highly advise that you buy this one not the plastic cheaper one - you will not regret it. Our deer burger looks as good as it did when we had the butcher do it for us. I attached a photo of our ground venison.

I gave this a 3 star because I just didn't feel that this unit was as versatile as I had hoped or expected from Chef's Choice. I bought it because it was metal and therefor, I expected, durable. However it's really sold as just a grinder and if you want to use it to stuff sausages, then you'll have trouble finding the correct "attachments" that fit and to use it as such. I had difficulty finding metal/stainless sausage stuffer tubes for it and it needs a plate to hold the front end of the worm in place so it will work the meat into the stuffer tubes. Kitchen Aide has a small plastic support device to attach to their grinder unit, but that attachment won't fit the Chef's Choice because it is keyed differently. I ordered the #12 size metal stuffer tubes (this Chefs Choice takes #5, I think) and I used my bench grinder to grind the back flange to fit this unit. I just now ordered a new stuffer plate with big pass thru holes in it to let the meat easily enter the stuffer tubes. My whole experience was that I had to "McGiver" this unit to make into something that I could use. It would be nice if they had accessories that were available for it.

This is my first meat grinder, and I've only used it once, however my initial experience was very good. The instructions were clear, and I followed the included recommendations (and those I've read elsewhere) to chill the meat, cut it into the correct size chunks and strips, and remove as much sinewy material as I could. I used the included medium grinder plate to grind about five pounds of beef chuck roast, pork chops, and lamb chops. The finished product was a perfect consistency and looked delicious. I experienced no problems, with nothing getting stuck in the grinder. Cleanup was easy in some soapy water. I look forward to using it again next time I find a good sale on meat. Grinding five pounds took only about five minutes or less on speed level 4. The only real time consuming aspect was trimming the meat ahead of time. So far my opinion is that this is a quality product. It seems rugged, with parts fitting together tightly. I do not see anything that looks like it will break easily, except for perhaps the plastic plunger. Mating the grinder to the Kitchen Aid was easy, and the fit was tight.The chilled meat caused the metal to contract, so unscrewing the ring was impossible until after I held it under hot water for a few seconds.