Janet wrote:

> Last night I was making a baklava and thought I'd grind up the
> store-chopped nuts in the meat grinder attachment of the KA Artisan. It
> stopped dead. No turning, just motor groaning. I shut it off and tried
> to open the ring on the front of the grinder attachment but it was stuck
> like it had been glued there.
>
> I kept running water through it and finally, DH, with the aid of one of
> those rubber gripper jar openers was able to get the ring loose. What I
> found inside was a form of concrete that was made from the nuts and nut
> oil solidifying into a cement.
>
> Got out the Cuisinart and did my chopping there.
>
> Moral of the story: Don't put your nuts in the meat grinder.

All these responses and nobody has mentioned the Slap-Chop(tm)?

Bob, "You're gonna love my nuts."