Using KitchenAid Mixer to Mix Sausage

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

Has anyone tried using their kitchenAid mixer bowl and dough hook to mix sausage?? How did it work??

[Kmac15]

I weigh out my chucked meat and mix my spices with that.
Then I put my seasoned meat through the meat grinder.

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

If you are mixing pork with venison or goat do you just mix up the chucks and hope that that is sufficient?? Or do you mix afterwards??

[fin29]

You may find it climbs the dough hook as you're mixing since it's so sticky. If that happens, lower the bowl while the mixer's still on speed 2, and the meat will just fall down from the momentum, and then you can pop the bowl back up. If you have a tilt head mixer, I can't help you there... Just don't mix too much or your sausage will have a decidedly hot dog consistency.

[diane]

I found it an unsatisfactory method. What I did was weigh out the meat before grinding and the same with the spices and then as I ground I just mixed it well with my hands in small batches and then the whole batch in a large bowl for a little bit more.

[Ol Tex]

Back in my younger years, (long time ago) I worked as a butcher/meat cutter. We made tons of sausage. We put the chunks of meat in a tub and sprinkled the seasoning over it and then tossed to mix. We then ground it through the coarsest grinding plate we had, tossed it again, then ground it through the sausage plate....if we were stuffing, we used the stuffing tube on the second grind. Always turned out great sausage.
John

[hotzcatz]

How interesting, I never thought of using the dough hook to mix the spices into the ground meat. Usually I'll put the spices on the meat chunks, mix by hand and then run them through the grinder. Or run the meat through the grinder and then mix in spices and then grind again.

If you already have ground meat and are just mixing in the spices, I don't see why not.