OXO Good Grips Stainless Steel Food Mill For Purees,Silver

I’m sure it will come in handy one day. I just like to have kitchen gadgets just in case. Never used. Yet.

Great mashed potatoes!

My biggest worry was that it would be hard to turn the crank, but it’s really quite low effort even with thick stuff like sorghum. Solid construction, though I do worry about accidentally snapping one of the legs with too much downward pressure, but as I said because the crank is so easy to turn I don’t think straining extra force onto the device will be a problem endangering the legs. If you set it on top of something to store, you might ned to be careful of the load the legs are bearing, as well. The 3 fineness plates are kept in-place with divots in the housing matched to bulges on the plates and I’m surprised that’s enough to hold, but hold it does. The cross-bar locks into place very strongly and is simple to release but does require enough pressure that it would be almost impossible to happen accidentally. The whole affair is a bit of a bear to hand-wash, but that’s nowhere near the effort of other options, so I’m fine with it.I own a Bamix but for certain really stubborn, hard things like sorghum’s incredibly sharp panicles, the Bamix simply doesn’t offer a straining function, so this food mill has been a great solution for high volume servings that I could never in a million years stomach the slog of auguring through a cone mesh or mashing through a strainer (a ricer’s not fine enough)!

Works good for small batches. Anything more better to get one with a motor or side crank. To do a lot with this is a lot of work.

Purchased after a recommendation from Pasta Grammar's YouTube channel (You can find their Italian cookbook here on Amazon.) and I was truly impressed. Have used it for making tomato sauce for pasta and pizza and for the first time, I made some apple sauce which I found better than store bought. (Maybe I got lucky in the choice of apple varieties.)Built well. Super easy to assemble/disassemble into three parts after reading the directions. (You'll only have to read them once.) Cleans up well in my dishwasher.I can't find any fault with it. Should have purchased this years ago considering all the tomatoes I've crushed by hand.My only dilemma now is, where is the best place to purchase a selection of apples.Recommended.

I compared the OXO Food mill with the RSVP mill online before purchasing. I first went with the RSVP product based strictly on price (since the ratings were essentially the same). The first thing I made was Tomato Sauce/marinara wherein I cooked tomatoes with garlic, herbs, and Olive oil and passed them through the mill. Immediately, I saw there was a LOT of waste with the RSVP mill. The food would just spin around in the top of the mill and not be passed through the holes in the metal disc (coarsest disc used). I shook the thing, ran the crank in the opposite direction to move the food around and reposition it. took out my wooden spoon to 'help' the mill by breaking down the tomatoes more. bit by bit, more and more food got processed but despite all my efforts, I would estimate 10-15 percent of the tomatoes just wouldn't go through, even after 5-10 minutes of cajoling. Let me make something clear here. These tomatoes were canned Marzano tomatoes which had ALREADY BEEN PEELED AND SEEDED - they practically crush themselves. It seemed to me that since the 'bad' stuff the mill was designed to remove was already gone , every bit of these tomatoes should gone through. I had a similar experience with my applesauce attempt using the medium disc. A lot of wasted apples and a rather meager (though delicious!) yield of applesauce.I'd never owned a Food Mill before and just thought this was how they worked...I was browsing Sur La Table one afternoon and they had the OXO mill out on display. The disks caught my eye. They were not just discs with holes cut in them, but were actually shaped to allow the food to pass through them. The holes were raised slightly, almost like the blades of a cheese grater. You could tell by looking at them that much more food would be crushed and pushed through. So I came home and ordered the OXO mill from Amazon as well.Night and day.On my marinara test as well as the applesauce test, the OXO mill ran circles around RSVP. All of the tomatoes went through and the resulting marinara had an excellent texture - not soupy in the least. I cranked less than 2 minutes. The applesauce was perfect as well and the Mill worked as promised - removing the peels and the seeds. In both cases, the yield was much higher.To me, the only thing I think the RSVP mill has going for it is the looks and general quality of construction. It is heavy stainless steel and all of the parts will clearly last a lifetime. It has a distinctly professional/industrial look and feel to it. The OXO has a good weight to it, and it definitely feels like it is well made, but there are some plastic parts (most notably the 'quick release' mechanism for attaching the crank) which leaves me with the lingering feeling that someday, years in the future, this will have to be replaced.Still, I would highly recommend the OXO Good Grips Food Mill to anyone in the market for a food mill for home use. If/When it does fail, I will not hesitate to buy another one (unless of course, it breaks down in like a week (doubtful))

I purchased this food mill because I wasn't satisfied with purees processed with my blender. A blender made my chicken tikka masala sauce kind of gritty, with small hard particles of grated ginger root and tomato and chili pepper seeds that never completely pulverized. This food mill quickly made a very smooth velvety sauce. Same with chili sauce that I make from whole ancho chili peppers, this food mill removes the skins and seeds and makes a restaurant-quality smooth sauce. It worked great on baba ganoush, removing the seeds and hard bits from grilled eggplant. I will use it tomorrow for hummus - the blender never completely pulverized the garbanzo bean skins and I finally look forward to smooth hummus.It is a handsome and useful kitchen appliance for less than $55. Pro tips - remove the disk before cleaning, else you will never remove all of the adhered food around the rim. Also, do not store with spring compressed, or it will weaken over time.