Chef’sChoice 797 Food Grinder Attachment

The entire grinder - housing, screw, blade, cutting plate and hopper, are stainless steel. Thing is heavy and solid. The tolerances are good too - almost all the meat was pushed through the cutting plate at the end of the grind. The plates are size 5, my old hand grinder was size 13, and I was worried that The smaller size would mean longer times for grinding my usual 8 to 10 lb batch of sausage. After a short learning curve as to how to get chunks of meat into the hopper consistently without having to push too hard on the pusher dowel, it was a nice efficient process to make sausage without a second person helping. The pusher dowel IS kinda chincy, but works fine. As I think another reviewer mentioned, the collar that inserts into the kitchenaid mixer (in my case) was a little oversized and as a result the housing would not go into the mixer far enough for the set screw of the mixer to catch the notch on the housing collar. I did have to grind down some material to improve the fit, and because it is solid stainless steel, a file would have taken forever, but a cheap grinding wheel i keep in the garage worked well enough. Worth a little extra work for the quality materials - no aluminum, plated magnesium or plated carbon steel or any other junk. Did not even bother with included plastic sausage funnels, just bought some stainless ones here on the Amazon, fit and worked well. Comes with fine, medium and coarse plates, all stainless steel.