Cuisinart® Meat Grinder Attachment

Hi, I'm Mary Rogers, Director of Marketing Communications for Cuisinart. This is the Cuisinart Stand Mixer. There are several different attachments that you can get to go along with your stand mixer to do more than just mixing.

This happens to be the Meat Grinder Attachment. It's really great to grind your own meat and then you can actually mix your own meatloaf using the bowl separately. To use the meat grinder today, we're gonna remove the lid. And also, just for a little easier access, I'm gonna remove the front, and that's going to expose our low speed power outlet.

The way you mount the meat grinder is you take this, you pull this little lever down here, and you twist this until you lock it into place. I happen to already have a die in, but you can use this wrench later on to help you remove this and loosen it. You put the hopper in, and how this works is you put your whole meat that you choose yourself into this hopper, and the hopper then feeds it down through the meat grinder,and there's an auger in there. It will actually grind the meat, and the meat will come out here, and you can actually use your stand mixer bowl to catch the meat in the front.

A nice trick to remember with these dies is that after you're done using them, make sure you clean them and also put a little bit of olive oil in them, and then wrap them in parchment paper or wax paper because that helps them stay really nice and easy to use. We have three dies, fine, medium, and coarse grind. Like I said, meat grinding is really great because you control what's in your meat, what's in your hamburgers, your meat balls, and even your meatloaf. You can do just more than beef. You can do chicken, turkey. and you can even grind salmon for salmon burgers.

Also, the other thing you can do with this meat grinder Attachment is put this in with this sausage nozzle, and you can make two different kinds of sausage. You can do breakfast style or you can do more of a thicker dinner Italian style sausage. There are lots of great things you can do with your stand mixer that's not just mixing. Try using our meat grinder attachment. It's a lot of fun.