UPDATE about the video. I've learned a lot from the comments. Thank you to everyone who has commented. In hindsight, it is obvious that I made mistakes as I was a novice to grinding meat myself. I speak from my own experiences. Other people have experiences different from my own. I did freeze the meat first, but after reading some of the comments, I don't think I froze it good enough. Yes I bought a non KitchenAid grinder, but it wasnt exactly cheap, and I didn't like the way the KitchenAid one looked and felt I really wanted one which was stainless steel, so I got this GVODE. Lesson learned. There was not a o-ring, gasket, or absorbent disk with the grinder or mixer. I had no reason to think one may have been needed or included. Last, after making this video I bought a dedicated, quality meat grinder. It works MUCH better. I ground up an entire cow with it. I'll do a video on it sometime.

A man of integrity. Thank you for acknowledging you were mistaken, not the mixer, the unauthorized attachments. Becsuse something looks alike doesn't mean it operates the same.❤

Thank you for the warning ! After reading the replies I will try mine on the recommended speed and also I have the kitchen-aid brand attachment. I hope I have no problems keeping it clean. Thank you !

It is the after market knockoff that has no seal for it. I have the kitchenaid brand and use mine quite often and no leaks, no smell. Thank you for the video, I was thinking about buying other knockoff attachments. Not now.

Need a more powerful speed. By your own emission, you had it on speed 2. At this speed the meat will back up due to lack of power going through strainer plate. The directions recommend at least speed 4. Also freeze the meat and grinder before using.

Mistake was it's recommended a minimum speed of 4 to 5 not 2. I've used mine for years and never had an issue. Guessing slow speed was the issue. Plus run a piece of bread through after grinding to solve that problem too

This is interesting. We’ve had our mixer for over 20 years and the meat grinder at least 15 years. We’ve ground hundreds of pounds of meat over that time and NEVER had the problem you’ve had. Our grinder attachment doesn’t look the same as yours though. Ours is a KitchenAid brand. Might be the brand you bought.

There is a O-ring seal in the Gvode drive shaft that inserts into the square drive of the Kitchenaid mixer. That's the only route fluids could get into the mixer head. If the O-ring is missing or you have a crack in the housing that bypasses the seal you will have problems. I have used the fruit strainer for de-seeding raspberries to make jam. It has an extention worm feeder that attaches to the same drive shaft to turn the worm feeder as the meat grinder and I checked, no juice leaking into the mixer head. It has to be your device. Using excessive pressure to force food into a narrow device can cause food and fluids to leak around a seal. You have to cut up the meat in small enough pieces to self-feed through the worm drive. The "pusher" is only a safety feature to move the food down the vertical feed so the worm drive can catch it and to push the last little bits that dont have the weight of food above it to push it through. Most of the meat grinding process I don't do any pushing but just plop pieces down into the feed. The point is to let the mechanical process do the work. The knives and grind plate and the worm feeder.

Also I watched a video, some guy said you should freeze your meat, and also keep your grinder in the freezer for a little while. The most important thing he said is not letting your meat get warm

It has nothing to do with the mixer. It’s the cheap aftermarket grinder.

The reason why the meat that you grind is semi frozen is it results in a better mince and no juices from the meat can seep back into the mixer head.

I never had to freeze any meat (cold, but not frozen) and everything came out fine. Also used whatever was ground right after grinding.

A property machined joint where the shaft leaves the grinder housing won’t leak. It’s not the mixer, it’s the Gvode grinder 4:13 (inferior product) I can’t say the a quality part won’t leak, but it will be minimal, there’s probably an absorbent disk at the joint, maybe even a plastic disc to further prevent such an event. Thanks for the heads up

Electrical cleaner would have probably done a really good job. You can find it in the automotive section

Thanks for posting this. I have the exact same mixer. Looks like you saved me from this nightmare.

Use the KitchenAid attachment. I grind meat with mine all the time and have never had an issue.

There is supposed to be a seal on the rear of the housing that vontains the auger. The only way anything could have gotten inside your machine is if that seal was gone or damaged.

The issue is with the grinder not the KA unit itself. Sometimes it's better spend a little more and get better quality.

WOW had this issue and was able to resolve it watching your video. Thank you. Just wanted to say what a big help this was.

From what I can see from videos, the KitchenAid grinder has a gasket where the shaft leaves the grinder housing. The Gvode does not have any type of seal or gasket, , , therein lies the problem

Nice video glad you got it fixed. I just bought the actual kitchenaid all metal grinder and I will be watching out for this to happen with it. Thanks for the video and the heads up sir!😎💪

THANK U FOR THIS VIDEO!!! The exact same thing happened to me… u saved me from maggots!!! How gross- It is the poorly made plastic device. Not the machine itself. I believe that. ✨👏✨

NOW you tell me....I burned mine up yesterday. I obviously made several mistakes. Meat not partially frozen, etc. Live and learn. Went and bought an actual meat grinder. I think the mixer will still limp along for mixing; we'll see.

There are multiple items to consider. 1. Wait to put too much meat into the grinder to prevent pressure buildup. 2. Use lightly frozen meat to reduce the amount of liquid. 3. Check the seal on your grinder. You can buy the original one from KitchenAid. This is a great video! Thanks for posting.

I have to press the importance of only going with the Kitchen branded attachments. I tried an off brand shredder for the stand mixer on amazon that had LOTS of 5 star ratings. When I got it, it felt so cheap and terrible. One of the shredding wheels had a spike of metal that punctured my finger. Had I used it, it would have broken off into my food. I posted my 1 star review on Amazon along with pictures of the dangerous product. The company offered to give me a gift card if I delete the review. Screw that! I left it there and they tried contacting me again.

The lawyers at KitchenAid are gonna have fun with this

FYI it's not blood. Meat at the store has been drained of blood. That red juice is actually a protein, not the animals blood.

Only use the kitchenaid attachments. You wont have this issue

It's meat juice (myoglobin) not blood. The blood has been removed during the slaughter process.

I only use my Kitchen aid mixer to grind. I just got the new all metal KitchenAid grinder, but haven’t used it yet. The plastic one I’ve had for several years, use it to grind venison to make sausage and sticks. I can grind a 7 pound pork butt in about 4 minutes. I’m guessing the metal one is faster, it’s double the size and looks heavy duty.

just put an "O" ring on the grinder shaft and the blood will not get back in there note put some food grade lube like mineral oil on the o ring

Always use kitchenaid attachments, never cheap off brand ones

Something wrong with the grinder attachment. Probably the O ring seal in the back is giving way under pressure. Never had this issue and been grinding meat years with it.

Since it was operator error the video needs to be pulled as misleading.

Thats not even a kitchenaid attachment. It's an off brand.

You are supposed to use partially frozen meat also I was just get a rubber o-ring and put it on the shaft

Tyvm. I have to check mine even though doesn't smell. Now wonder if can or have to oil mixer? Lol. I have a grinder for doing lit of meat, KitchenAid grinder attachment for small batches. Big one takes long to clean, so I can start checking my KitchenAid now.

I have 2 artisan mixers, the gvode grinder and a kitchenaid grinder, I'll have to do a comparison. Haven't noticed any issues on either of mine yet. Hopefully not an issue.

Also just watched more, he just voided the warranty. By taking it apart beside using an aftermarket brand grinder.

don't use the knock off brand. It may be whats not sealing. I have a KA brand grinder and never had a problem. I also have the Gvode grinder- fruit strainer kit I bought recently for making jam. No problems.

I had a knockoff on Amazon and it was garbage. I sent it back. Just sucked it up and paid for the METAL kitchen aid kit. No problems and Filled up a chest freezer with the grinded meat.

You blame Kitchenaid because you were too cheap to buy the genuine Kitchenaid grinder, so you bought a cheap Chinese knockoff? Lesson learnt, huh? Buy cheap, get cheap. Try following the instructions next time, too... cool the grinder FIRST in the freezer or refrigerator, use partially frozen meat, and use the machine on the recommended speed setting of FOUR... problem solved. 🙄🙄🙄

You do know don't you that you are supposed to partially freeze the meat before you grind it don't you? And on that note spend the $90 and get the kitchenaid brand.

Never had a problem have used after market and kitchen ad

I had a similar issue and decided to buy a dedicated meat grinder. I was told there it was the o ring but the time I spent cleaning the mixer was not worth it just incase it happened again.

Unless you are using meat you butchered yourself, not just from the store that you got trimmings from to grind, the substance you call "blood" is in fact NOT blood but rather a protein called myoglobin,. The protein is what gives the meat and its juices a red hue. How do i know, not from the interweb but because I have working in a meat packing plant for 30 years. As for the smell coming from your mixer, I am sorry you had such a bad experience grinding your own meat. Perhaps one day you may try it again with better results.

Had this problem as the meat thawed.

I use my Kitchen Aid mixer for making cookies, and cakes. The grinder attachment I have is for shredding documents that have personal bank and investment data. Never meat.

Does a Kenwood have this same problem? Does anybody know?

Thank you for video, I just bought my kitchenaid stand mixer professional 5 plus like yours and bought grinder too. Now I think I should return the grinder tomorrow.😭

Uhhhh dude, have you thought that maybe the grinder attachment itself was dodgy? Look at the design: its feeding plate is siting right above the attachment.

"BLOOD," said it all. My question is, why haven't you taken down this video 😅or at least amended the title? Did you get paid for my comment?

Damn, you like red and black but yet you have a Stanley brand toolbox. Don't listen to this guy.

I grinded meat all the time and don't experience this problem.

The question I have if the author used the plastic nut or whatever itss called that is aupposed to seal the grinder from the machine. I actually bought the original KitchenAid metal grinder attachment and am hugely disappointed. After the first wash the grinder and all its part turned dark grey and as someone is saying this is a sign of "leaking lead". Not sure if this is true, but it is extremely nasty and unpleasant. So I am in fact looking for a stainless steel version of this attachment, and sadly KA does not make them. Only some noname Chinese products like the GVODE you used in this video are available on Amazon. Seeing your video made me pause for a sec but then I noticed there are quite a few video reviews of this chinese product on KZfaq and you are the only one reporting this problem. Which brings me to the question: did your attachment had that plastic seal on the auger or not?

I am surprised to see i have all original KA equipment, but mine did the same thing as in this video, blood was all over inside. I tried the second time and it did that again. What am I doing wrong ? any suggestions ?

I can understand what you're saying happened but I have used mine to grind my venison MANY times and have NEVER had any issues like this. I do chill my meat before I grind which may be the difference so that might be something for people to consider if doing this. I LOVE mine!

I bought 6.9 liter brand new one here in India and it was rusting under the mixer interior.

I'm willing to bet it's because you used a knock-off and you didn't even use it correctly. You didn't pre-chill the meat and the grinder.

Watch this video with speed 2x. He talks SUPER SLOW

OMG What a nasty experience but do you think that maybe if you would have used the original grinder made for the kitchen aid this would not have happened?

Well i used thr kitchen aid branded mixer and the same thing happened. It is disgusting!

Ok thanks

2:38 - Oh hell nah... thats terrible engineering design of such product. How did blood got into it?

Also it's not blood. The correct word is myoglobin.

So in other words, buy a SEPARATE meat grinder?

He made mistakes

Correct me if I'm mistaken here but when grinding meat, it doesn't go inside the mixer itself. It only touches the grinder itself.

Had a kitchen aid for 40 years. Use more as a grinder as a mixer. Wore out 2 grinders. Never thos issue......you said the kitchen aid brand was "prohibitively expensive "?? WTF? THEYRE LESS THAN 40 BUCKS