(3) new Stainless Steel stuffing tubes for Kitchenaid mixer meat grinder attachments. FGA and Vintage

These are very well built stainless. There are hand-grinding marks on the inside, but nothing that's a problem for function or sterility. For stuffing sausage, assume the meat was already ground and seasoned. In this case, pushing the ground mixture back through the grinder is a lot of work. Remove the cutter blade and die or the die may plug up. Only need the stuffer tube held in place by the plastic grinder ring. It's a really slow process, but does work well. If you have a lot of meat to process, a special-purpose stuffer may be a better option. This is a very good product though.

I bought these to stuff sausages using the KitchenAid grinding attachment. There are three tubes in this package: one 6"x3/8", one 6"x3/4", and one 4"x1 1/4" diameter. The product description incorrectly lists three 6" tubes, but most of the photographs are accurate depictions.The stainless steel tubes are hardy, and I don't anticipate them ever breaking or bending. That said, these are clearly a handmade, small production product that could use a few improvements. The tubes hand-soldered to fluted flanges. The joints are good and relatively straight, and the flange edges are reasonably smooth. The internal joints are quite coarsely ground, though. The 3/8" suffers the most here, having a rough, pronounced ridge at the point of transfer from the flute to the tube.The tubes' internal surfaces are unpolished, with welding haze present the entire length. I can smell welding smut on my finger after rubbing it on the inside of the tube. The tube ends are also unpolished, with minor burring that is visible to the eye and obvious to the touch. Any sort of surface inconsistency at that point may tear the sausage casing. I will spend a few hours polishing these nozzles inside and out, and they will be fine.Pros: Solid construction. These will outlast the plastic mixer attachment they'll be mated to.Cons: Unrefined finish. Not quite ready for use out of the box. Why is the large tube so short?Buy these if you're not afraid of applying a little elbow grease. If you're making your own sausage, you probably aren't.

I used with my kitchenaids sausage stuffing attachment as I loaned mine out at they lost one of 2 tubes it came with. This fit into attachment perfectly and worked better than plastic tubes it originally came with. The casing slid along metal better.

These are made of substantial, decent quality stainless steel. The overall manufacturing is good. The finishing and QC is slap-dash, Chinese-factory work. Before using these I had to: 1. Use needle-nose pliers to tear out stray splinters of steel; 2. File the area wear I removed the splinters and file the edges (lest they shred the casings when loading them up); 3. Scrub out a surprising amount of gunk left over from the welding. I'm happy to own these and will get good use from them now. But at 40 dollars for the set, the condition they arrived in is inexcusable. The vendor need to complain to his supplier in the PRC.

good product, it works, it looks good, does the job for what i needqualityso far is goodhopefully it lasts

I bought these thinking they would work with my Kitchen-aid Grinder as stated. I had to use a grinder plate to center the auger and this caused the meat mixture to not flow through to the tube. The Kitchen-aid one apparently has an open-flow centering piece for their sausage kit, and now I'll have to but that kit just to get that and then see if it works...not as advertised! I liked the concept of the metal tubes for durability but just wasted a batch of meat with this situation!

Working out Great. Muck smoother for loading casings. A lot smoother than the plastic tubes. No rough edges that I read about in some reviews on other sellers

Good quality. Looking forward to using these instead of the plastic ones I have now.4 vs. 5 star because the diameter of the flare end is just a tad bit smaller than my Chef's Choice grinder attachment (Kitchen aid mixer) so you will have to be sure to manually center it when tightening the collar or it may interfere with the meat passing through. Once centered and "locked in" by tightening the ring I don't anticipate it will impact usability.I realize the description states these are meant for the Kitchen aid attachment but the first answered question (by Smokehouse Chef) states it will fit a Chefs Choice - which it does technically fit, just not well.The photos attached show the tube but misaligned and manually centered.