A Buying Guide for KitchenAid Mixer Attachments
Since you’ve used our KitchenAid mixer buying guide to figure out which one is perfect for you or the home chef in your life, you’re ready to customize it with some great accessories. Now the question is, which attachments will be perfect for your needs?
This is one of those cases where you don’t need to ask why you should choose one brand over another. KitchenAid mixers and KitchenAid attachments, which are attached via the mixer's hub, were literally made for each other. Beyond giving you amazing options for creating your own menus, they also provide quality and reliability that home chefs the world over have come to trust.
It’s hard to look at the full slate of KitchenAid mixer accessories available from KaTom and not immediately answer, "All of them!" There are some amazing attachments and we’re happy to help you wade through the list to find the perfect mixer accessories for every home chef you know.
Which KitchenAid Attachment Do You Need?
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KitchenAid Pasta Maker Attachments
Perfect for: The name probably gives it away, but these pasta maker accessories are great for making any kind of noodle, from narrow angel hair to broad lasagna sheets. These really are a great addition to a KitchenAid mixer because you can prepare an entire dish, from dough to noodle and even the sauce, with one piece of kitchen equipment.
What are my options?: KaTom offers attachments that cut standard pastas like spaghetti, roll the dough and cut it, form complex shapes like macaroni and rigatoni, and even pasta makers in kits that run the gamut.
The entry-level pasta maker among the KitchenAid accessories is the standard pasta cutter, now sold as KSMPCA instead of KPCA. You prepare the dough, roll it out, and feed it through the attachment. As you do, the pasta maker creates perfectly-sized angel hair spaghetti and thicker noodles like fettuccine.
Another essential pasta maker in the KitchenAid attachments lineup is the KSMPSA pasta roller, which has replaced the KPSA. This attachment will eliminate the tedious task of rolling out your dough into perfect sheets for cutting. Pair that with the pasta cutter accessory and you’ve got a dynamic duo.
The KSMPRA attachment will do both the rolling and cutting of your pasta dough. Simply create your dough using your stand mixer, then attach the pasta maker and go from dough to perfect noodles in just seconds.
KitchenAid offers some more complex pasta makers, including the Gourmet Pasta Press. It allows you to effortlessly create fancy pastas with your stand mixer, with six included interchangeable pasta maker plates that will craft spaghetti, bucatini, rigatoni, fusilli, and small or large macaroni.
If you just can’t decide which pasta maker you want, why not go with a variety? Although the popular KitchenAid KPEX set is discontinued, KaTom offers the KSMPEXTA in its place. It can be used to extrude spaghetti, bucatini, fusilli, small macaroni, large macaroni, and rigatoni noodles.
KitchenAid Food Grinder and Related Accessories
Perfect for: These KitchenAid accessories enable you to create fresh meat products, from burgers to sausages, and produce your own salsas, sauces, and purées.
What are my options?: From meat grinders and sausage stuffers to grain mills and attachments for grinding and straining fruits and vegetables, there’s an accessory for that.
This category is built around the KSMFGA food grinder attachment, which can help you process meat, fruits and vegetables, shredded or coarse cheese, and even spices. It includes a stomper for pushing food through the grinder and interchangeable plates for coarse and fine grinding.
The food grinder pairs well with the food tray attachment, which increases the space you have for holding ingredients that are about to go into the hopper. It’s a handy accessory if you have a lot of food to grind at one time and saves you from having to rush from the counter to the top of your stand mixer with smaller portions.
Once you’ve run your meat through the food grinder, you can use the SSA sausage stuffer attachment to make your own sausage. This add-on to the food grinder accessory includes a coupler that affixes either a 3⁄8-inch tube for small links or a 5⁄8-inch tube for larger sausages. Simply insert the end of the tube attached to your stand mixer into your casing of choice and fill as you push food through the meat grinder.
Your KitchenAid mixer enables you to produce quality dough for breads from wheat to loaf, thanks to the all-metal KGM grain mill attachment. Simply fill the hopper and produce flours or even your own freshly-ground coffee, with consistencies ranging from "cracked," or with just the husks broken, to extra fine. Some people use this add-on as part of the process of making beer at home. If you're using it to make flour, you can even create your dough in the stand mixer and make a great loaf with a single appliance.
KitchenAid Produce Slicer and Citrus Juicer Attachments
Perfect for: Anyone looking to put some healthy fruits and vegetables in their diet, whether in salads, juices, or even carrot cakes.
What are my options?: The heading for this category pretty much says it all. There are accessories that chop, grind, and juice food.
The KSMVSA KitchenAid mixer attachment is designed to slice and shred and can produce coarse or fine shreds and thick or thin slices. It comes with four conical graters that produce varying sizes of pieces from the firm fruits and vegetables you feed into the hopper. Great for preparing salads, it’s also a wonder for recipes that call for grated produce, like zucchini bread or carrot cake. These can also be used to shred cheeses, from sharp cheddars to crumbly parmesan.
This category includes the JE citrus juicer, which does exactly what its name implies: provides a motorized method of extracting juice from fruits like oranges, lemons, and grapefruits. Like the other attachments, it plugs into the hub on the front of any KitchenAid mixer, looking like a typical citrus juicer turned on its side. The reamer turns on its own, with the resulting juice flowing through a strainer that captures seeds and pulp. Your waiting glass below is filled with fresh, healthy juice.
KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment
Perfect for: Making ice cream.
What are my options? Just the ice cream maker.
By equipping your stand mixer with the KICA0WH attachment's 2-quart bowl, you can produce homemade soft-consistency ice cream in half an hour or less. You simply freeze the bowl, add your ingredients using your own recipe or those included with this attachment, and set your KitchenAid mixer running. It does the work of churning for you, with an included dasher reaching every part of the bowl to ensure an even ice cream, sorbet, or gelato.
Questions About the Attachments? KaTom Can Help
If you still have questions about which KitchenAid mixer accessories are right for you, please call one of our helpful customer service representatives at 1-800-541-8683 or e-mail us at sales@katom.com.
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