Wow! Thanks guys for all of the support and tips.

I definitely come from a cooking family and am considering culinary school
(I had considered dropping out of college a ways back, but was "convinced"
by my family to finish here). My degree is in marketing/mass communication,
but I've had a full time position since 2005, so it was more of a backup and
just to get it done.

I also found that the KA is a good introduction to making sausage, but I
can't see making a ton of it right now and needing a separate grinder or
vertical stuffer. If the requests get high once tailgating season starts in
the fall, I'll get the troops to split the costs and turn the sausage making
into a group effort. Bratwurst and italian are most of what we cookout with,
so I'm going to try and expand to white sausages and from a friend's dad,
whatever game or gator is available (knowing I'll need lots of extra fat for
anything lean like gator).

As far as the pool table or car go Sqwertz, I'm 28 and have been footing my
own bill for a while I'd gladly take either of those, but my mom has been
waiting to give me the KA for many of these years in wait.

The only improvement I need so far is a better pusher for getting the meat
into the auger. The KA one creates a lot of suction and meat gets stuck in
the edges which makes a fantastic vacuum for the bits to fly everywhere when
pulling up.

@George : Thanks for the hot link recipe! That's one I've really wanted to
try and should be a big hit amongst my friends.

See ya'll here and the binaries group when I've had another success.

Evan in Orlando