I was talking about Jack's stupid meat grinder video with a friend who works as a chef and got scolded hard after I said he should just use the KitchenAid. According to him, the KitchenAid sucks, any cheap $100 meat grinder from China would be "infinitely better". The KitchenAid is slower, low power, and does not handle a lot of meat types at all. He also said the meat grinding cylinder component should be cooled down prior to use, toss it in a fridge?
I guess I was wrong and dumb then. I suppose if you're grinding your own minced meat once in a while and bake a lot, the KitchenAid works decently. If you intend to grind your own meat all the time because supermarket ones aren't good (they're not), then most dedicated ones from China would do a superior job at the cost of just the KitchenAid attachment alone. Supermarket ground meat isn't good because they're essentially throwing everything into a machine, cuts of meat from different animals. You don't know what's in the ground meat.
I'll take the L and get myself something from China. Enjoy your W Jack.
Edit: For the same cost of that attachment, I can get a semi-commercial unit from China and they told me they sell every single component. If the thing ever breaks, I can just order replacement gears, blades, knobs and so on. Yikes.