Premium Manual Sausage Stuffer - Food Grade Stainless Steel Sausage Maker with 2 Nozzles (5/8" & 6/8") for Homemade Salami, Bratwurst & Ground Meat - Perfect for Home Kitchen, Camping & BBQ Parties

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.