Sausage stuffer recommendations

January 7, 2008 10:38 AM

What is the best sausage stuffer?

We make a lot of sausage and have been struggling with finding an adequate stuffer. We have the KitchenAid mixer with the meat grinder and sausage stuffer attachment. The grinder is fine, the stuffer is mediocre at best and doesn't work well with emulsified sausages at all. The major problem is using the mallet/plunger to shove the meat down through the tube often results in some backing up and gushing out as you push down. The emsulfied sausages break the emulsion when you send them through the spiral tube at the base of the grinder.

The other stuffer we have is the Cabela's Heavy Duty Cast Iron stuffer. It has to be mounted on a long board (and therefore operated on the floor) and then still requires two people to force the handle down when the mouth is packed even half full.

We want something more similar to the Cabela's model, but that is possible to use on the counter with only one person. If you know of a place that allows you to try out a stuffer before buying it, that would be great. Budget is open, but preferable less than $200.

posted by sulaine to food & drink (3 comments total)

KitchenAid
Cabela's
posted by sulaine at 10:45 AM on January 7, 2008

I've got a 5 pound vertical sausage stuffer from the sausage maker and it works incredibly well.
posted by foodgeek at 10:52 AM on January 7, 2008

I got my dad the KitchenAid FGA/sausage maker for xmas. We used it for the first time this last Saturday to make Cajun Boudin.

It works well, but it's INCREDIBLY slow, as you keep having to pack the meat down the feeder tube to the auger. It's sort of nightmarishly slow and there's no food pedal or anything.

One of the places I used to work had a foot pedal attachment for their ice grinder that could really be used for anything (appliance plug plugs into it, then it plugs into the wall), I'm thinking about getting him one of those.
posted by TomMelee at 11:02 AM on January 7, 2008