Customer Reviews

Please see replacement item# 508314. Northern Industrial 5-Lb. Sausage Stuffer

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This 5 lbs sausage stuffer is easy to use, fast, and easy to clean. I have tried the Kitchen Aide sausage stuffing attachment and there is absolutely no comparison. This stuffer sets up in minutes and can be used by one person if it is bolted to a table or a steady base. Stuffers with an auger drive essentially reprocess your sausage, the piston drive found in this product does not. It takes about 10 minutes to stuff 5 lbs. of sausage with this machine. You could easily spend a lot more money for very little additional functionality. This is a best buy!

This was my first experience with making home made sausage. The Northern Industrial stuffer was easy to use. We churned out 5 lbs of sausage in less than 10 minutes and had zero problems. It is sturdily built and easy to clean. Looking forward to the next batch.

Was about to buy the lever type stuffer (about 39) when I read the review of the guy who used this one for making sausage from 20 deer and changed my mind. For the last 8 years have been making sausage (45lbs) for a St Joe's Day Party, it would take 4 + hrs with an electric stuffer. This one is a dream. Did it in half the time. Not only is it will constructed - some good thought went into the engineering. Almost effortless and very little stuffing left at end of cycle.

Item arrived today. I visited a local butcher store yesterday in anticipation of the product. Until now, I had been using the sausage stuffer attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer. The Kitchenaid stuffer was awful. It essentially did a bad re-grind of the meat, and you got to wrestle the meat through the attachment for nearly an hour with a mere 3 pounds of meat. (I watched Alton Brown of "Good Eats" fame do this, but his attachment had a different feeder... and it was still slow.) I read the reviews of the other "cheap" stuffers and decided they would be money wasted. (If a $10 Kitchenaid attachment was poor, and a $40 press stuffer was worse, it was time to rethink things.)

Meanwhile, the NI stuffer worked as advertised. Shipping included, it actually cost less than my trip to the butcher for the meat I ran through it when it arrived.

Plus side:
* reasonably priced. Considering how well it worked, I am not sure what higher-priced models could offer other than a motor.
* easy to set up, disassemble, clean. The instructions are laughably minimal. Fortunately, they are nearly unnecessary.
* engineering is very smart. O-ring and valves are just right. Waste is minimal.

Neutral:
* you really need to make or find a table you can mount this to. I had my son help and also tried to just hold by hand. (I couldn't find my old wood clamps which might have helped.) If you're good with a drill and some bolts,
this isn't really a problem.

Down side:
* the smallest feeder does NOT handle the 19mm jerky sized casings. The Kitchenaid feeder does, but with the aforementioned difficulties. Fortunately, I also own a jerky-stuffer. But if making thin breakfast sausage or slim-jim clones is your thing, this is the wrong product.

Despite the lack of a 19mm stuffing tube, I still give this a 5-star. It's solidly constructed, easy to use and I expect a lifetime of good use from it.

This thing works absolutely great. It churns out the sausage easily and quickly, and is a snap to clean. I started making sausage with the Kitchen Aid stuffer, which was a total pain, then moved on to the plunger type stuffer, which was a terrible purchase. Finally I saw the light and spent the extra money on this product and could not be happier.

I have only used this product for 35mm casings but it worked well. It is a lot easier to do than the Kitchen Aid way I have been doing it!

We Love it benn using it for over a year now it is very sturdy and durable and very easy to use

I have the grinder attachment for my wife's kitchen aid, and was looking for the stuffer attachment. I found this on Amazon through a link on spicy sausage that claims it is $89.99 (but I have the luck of the polish) and it was actually $99.99 plus $14 S & H.
I was reading the reviews and noted that many purchasers had previously used the kitchen aid stuffer and liked this one much better. This is not a bad review for Kitchen aid as ours is great, I love the grinder attachment and never used the stuffer attachment.
This product is WONDERFULL, easy to take apart and assemble, easy to clean as it is stainless & 3 different size stuffing tubes included. The only 2 possible drawbacks are it is easier to use with a friend and you may want a larger holding chamber than 5lbs.
Overall was happy this was my first purchase of a stuffer, and will be using it for the second time this weekend.
At $114 this is by far one of the best investments I have ever made. I am so sorry I did not start making sausage earlier as I am now 40 it seems I wasted so much time on average quality & taste store purchased sausage.