Sausage stuffer is more of a squisher

[Welshmom]

I got the electric meat grinder/sausage stuffer from Northern Tool, 1,000 watt. Just set it up to make sausage for the first time, and it's not working right!

I have ground pork - it was ground already at the butcher. I figured I'd just mix it up with seasonings, and stuff the sausage. So I mixed it up, keeping the meat cool to cold. Put the funnel and sausage tube on the end of the grinder neck, no blade or plate since it's already ground (as per instructions). Well, the meat just doesn't want to feed through without really, really being forced. I can only get a little bit to come out at a time, and I'm getting as much or more air out and into my casings as meat Some meat is squishing out at the connection from the neck to the motor housing. I took it apart once to make sure the auger was turning, and it is. Oh, and the pusher/plunger thingie doesn't work so hot, either, it seems to just squish the meat, rather than actually push it into the grinder.

What am I doing wrong??

[Welshmom]

I got it figured out
Turns out the barely english instructions are in no way clear that you need the "kubbe" attachment on for sausage.
But I made 5 lbs. (more or less) of italian sausage from my own pork, so that's pretty cool!

[Oldcountryboy]

"mmm not sure" I do know it is a little harder to run ground meat back through a grinder again but it should still work. Have you tried it with the plate and knife attached to see what happens?

[Oldcountryboy]

Originally Posted by Welshmom

I got it figured out
Turns out the barely english instructions are in no way clear that you need the "kubbe" attachment on for sausage.
But I made 5 lbs. (more or less) of italian sausage from my own pork, so that's pretty cool!

Congradulations. Your on you way to some great sausages and cheaper prices. Besides making your own sausages, you can also ground your own burger a lot cheaper. We buy beef briskets and grind the whole thing up for burger meat. Saves us a whole lot of money. I also put on a very coarse grinding plate and grind up beef briskets for chili and stew meat.

[Yvonne's hubby]

Originally Posted by Welshmom

I got it figured out
Turns out the barely english instructions are in no way clear that you need the "kubbe" attachment on for sausage.
But I made 5 lbs. (more or less) of italian sausage from my own pork, so that's pretty cool!

Yep, thats why I no longer bother with reading the english version of the instructions, I simply read the chinese version, it usually makes as much or more sense to me than the english version.

[Riverdale]

That's why we have a manual stuffer

[Ol Tex]

It's a good little grinder and the stuffer works well too. The instructions are wrong. Take it from an old butcher, you need the blade and plate installed for it to work properly.
John