(Sausage Stuffer Barrel) - Food Grade Quality Manual Sausage Maker Meat Stuffer Filler Hand Operated Salami Maker Funnel Hand Tools (Sausage Stuffer Barrel)

This little device is amazingly simple and works perfectly! In many ways it works better than my big stuffer and much better than the meat grinder attachment on the KA.I make sausage every week. Sometimes I make a lot - sometimes only enough for the week. When making 1k (2.2#) it's just much simpler to grind the meat and stuff it without dragging out the big tools so I took a chance on this one. I really didn't expect much from a $12 kitchen gadget - I'm very impressed indeed. It's easy to load, easy to extrude with, and a breeze to clean.The canister holds enough to press an 11 5/8 oz 10" link in hog casing (32/35mm) in one load - 6" brats would be a snap. Waste left in the tube was only 1 3/8 oz and it could be pressed through if you followed with a broken up slice of bread. It's easy enough to load that you can make a rope as long as you have casing just by continuing to reload and not removing the link. I mixed my ground meat/seasoning, set it up, stuffed a kilo, and cleaned it in less than 30 minutes. It'd take nearly 30 minutes just to set up and clean the "real" stuffer and the leftover loss is much higher in those.If you're looking for an easy small batch stuffer then this one fits the bill nicely. I'd not want to process a whole pig with it though.Update: While I totally love the small/regular stuffer espcially now that I also have a thinner stuffing tube for sheep casing, the larger "new and improved" stuffer has a problem that is significant. The flange end of the tube is 1mm too small for the inside diameter of the retaining ring. The result is occasional blow-out around the tube as it shifts in place. I resolved it by adding a food grade gasket to the inside of the retaining ring. The manufacturer can fix this easily by slightly enlarging the edge-over of the retaining ring such that the filler tube is held in place with no possible gaps. [manufacturer may contact me for photos and drawing of suggestion - no charge] The added capacity of the stuffer barrel is great - getting a full pound (1/2 kilo) is wonderful since that's the size I usually small-batch process. It's also very nice that the filler tubes provided come matched for natural sheep and hog casing whereas the smaller stuffer's tubes were too big to mount natural sheep casing.Update 2: Three and a half years later - about 150 batches later; it’s still going strong. It’s been my go-to for small batch stuffing both sheep and hog casings. My $250 big stuffer broke in the same time frame. If only this could hold 5# of meat at a time… best $12 I’ve spent in a long time.

I didn't write a review on this item because I had not made any sausages yet. HOWEVER I did have occasion to stuff a large amount of Jalapenos for poppers. I used a Zulay Kitchen Jalapeno corer (Amazon) to clean out the Jalapenos (easy) and I used my new sausage stuffer to fill them with my mix. Fantastic!! ~ fast, so easy and efficient. I put a little piece of saran wrap on the plunger for a tighter fit and it worked perfectly with a softer material. The tube is easy to fill, easy to use and easy to clean too. I'm sure it will be great for sausages. ~I RECCOMEND THIS ITEM~

So I got these for my mom and made sausages with her with this. It’s really simple and easy to use, may struggle a bit if you’re not used to doing this. The only hard part is cleaning it up cuz meat could get stuck and it’s small areas and bits that’s gonna be hard to get out. Just run water through it.

We made a few batches of sausage this year and I got this so that we weren’t stuffing totally by hand. This turned a 6 hour slog into a 1 hour breeze. We were making Chinese sausage, which uses diced meat/fat, not ground, so we used the largest tube.We did this as a 2 person team, and it was very simple. She handled the casing, poked the air bubbles with a toothpick, and tied off the sausages as we got them to length. I kept refilling the feeder tube while she did her part.I would say that the threaded top/plunger was a waste. We found that it was WAY easier to just plunge without screwing the top on since the tube wasn’t too big and we needed to refill often.Still, this is a $8 tool that saved us MANY hours! Well worth it if you make sausage in 5-10 pound batches a couple times a year. This probably isn’t the tool if you’re a frequent/serious sausage maker, but for occasional use and small batches this is a great investment

I have been looking for a product like this to use to make eclairs and stuff pasta, a long neck was necessary. It worked beautifully for the eclairs. I used a wooden spoon handle to clear the last of the dough out of the neck. Easy to clean easy to use.