KitchenAid Metal Food Grinder Review (2026)

Cooks grinding burgers, meatballs, or sausage monthly or more, who care about fat blend and texture. Occasional grinders should weigh the plastic KSMFGA attachment or a butcher's custom grind first.

Fine, medium, and coarse plates cover burgers through chili grind, and grinding twice through progressively finer plates is the standard owner workflow for smooth sausage blends. The metal body and parts can be chilled in the freezer before a session, a step owners credit for clean fat definition.

Two sausage stuffer tubes handle breakfast links through larger casings. Output pace follows mixer power, so work in steady batches rather than forcing the pusher.

Raw meat sanitation is non-negotiable: disassemble, wash, and dry every part completely, using the included brush for plate holes. Running a piece of bread through at the end pushes out residue and simplifies washing, a common owner practice.

The included case keeps plates and tubes contained, which matters for sharp small parts in shared drawers.

Against the KitchenAid Food Grinder Attachment KSMFGA, the metal model offers an all-metal body at 4.2 lbs versus plastic construction at 1.4 lbs, holding cold far longer on big batches while the KSMFGA counters with a much lower entry tier and two plates instead of three. Against the KitchenAid Food Processor Attachment, the grinder is a single-purpose meat tool while the processor slices and dices produce but cannot grind meat, so they serve different stations entirely.

Weekly grinders need the metal model. Monthly experimenters can live happily with the plastic one.

Ownership settles into a routine around temperature and sanitation. The metal body and parts can be chilled in the freezer before a session, which owners credit for clean fat definition, and the included storage case keeps the three plates, two stuffer tubes, and cleaning brush contained between sessions, which matters for sharp small parts in shared drawers. The case also keeps plate edges from contacting other tools in storage.

After grinding, the workflow is disassembly, thorough washing, and complete drying of every part, with the included brush clearing plate holes. Owners stress that this cleaning time is the real cost of the attachment, so households that grind monthly or more absorb it easily, while rare grinders feel it every time.