If I'm going to be grinding a lot of meat, I'll get out the manual #32 grinder. But for small jobs I use the KitchAid. I wonder how many people use their KA mixer on the wrong speed when grinding up meat. That would be my guess on why they killed it. My KA Pro 600 needs to be on speed 4 for meat grinding. One tip when cutting the meat for the KA grinder. When you cut the meat up to size, cut it so the pieces are left as long as possible, instead of cubes. Makes less work and it'll just pull it in own it's own. Thanks to Rita Y for that tip.