OXO Good Grips Food Mill
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Food Mill
Customer Review: Great for small batches of applesauce
Summary: 5 Stars
I made 25 pounds of apples into applesauce with the Good Grips food mill. It did a great job scraping every last bit of apple off the peels.
What's in the box:
* The crank handle - it pops out for easier cleaning
* Three shredding disks of varying fineness. I used the medium disk for a chunkier applesauce. I think the fine one would've made sauce as smooth as store-bought.
* The body which has handle and feet attached
* Assembly instructions with photos of each step, plus usage tips.
When to use it:
This food mill works well for medium and small quantities of food. If you intend to process large quantities, I'd recommend using a food strainer instead.
This was my process:
Core and quarter the apples, cook them a bit. Put the mill onto a bowl with a sticky bottom. Fill the mill's bowl 3/4 with apples. Then grind away at them with the food mill. Crank it backwards every few cranks to scrape the peels out of the way. Scrape out the peels before the next batch of apples.
Nice Feature: The rubberized feet
The feet fold for easier storage. They are also prevent the unit from sliding all over the top of the bowl as you turn the crank. But the mixing bowl I was milling the apples into still slid around the counter. So I switched to using a bowl which had a rubberized bottom.
Customer Review: making applesauce
Summary: 5 Stars
After looking at a number of recipes in various cookbooks and and on the internet, I was thoroughly confused, but I remembered that my mother-in-law owned a device that worked with little difficulty. I ordered this mill because it seemed the most stable. After washing the apples, I cooked them in in large pots (several batches) I did not core or peel any of them but tossed the apples in the boiling water and set the timer for 15 to 20 minutes. Then I drained the excess water in a colander and spooned about two cups in the mill. Chose the sieve with the largest holes or the result will be a puree. After three to five minutes, I had a delicious sauce with very little effort and no skidding across the counter tops. A few seeds will be found in the mixture, but just spoon them out. After adding sugar and cinnamon to taste, I froze them in freezer containers. After each batch though, you just need to turn the mill upside down, run water through the hole and manually removed the leftover peel. It was the quickest and easiest way to make applesauce. I highly recommend this model. It may cost a little more than others but it was definitely worth it.Customer Review: First food mill, this one is it!
Summary: 5 Stars
How I got this far in life without a food mill is beyond me. But now I have one. This one. I used it for the first time yesterday, pushing cook apples--peels, cores, stems, seeds, through for apple butter.
I sure wish I had this when I made baby food years ago. My goodness!
I tried out the medium and fine blade. Did a nice job. No seeds got through. You do need to wind it in reverse frequently to reposition the gunk away from the screen.
On to the good and my few criticisms:
The Good
Easy to assemble
Easy to clean
The cranker is easy
Love the legs! Can fit over nearly every bowl and many pots
Gets the job done
Not as good
Not much to report here:
The instruction booklet is very skimpy. Shows how to assemble and that's it. I hope this baby is dishwasher safe. I put it in the dishwasher and it seems just fine, but no care instructions in the flimsy guide.
I wish it was a little bigger, four cups is what I am gauging this one on and that's actually fine for almost everything.
I'd recommend this food mill!
Customer Review: A good little tool
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this as an adjunct to a number of other "little" tools that are particularly needed for a switchover to 100% "home-prepared" foods. (There is need to go "organic and natural/no preservatives, etc." around here.)
My first project was applesauce and it worked great. Since then I've played with machine on making mashed potatoes (using it instead of the typical masher), mashed bananas (for no good reason except to see it perform on something uncooked and fairly dense), some berries to make a sauce, and even kiwi fruit. It's an excellent product and works fine for everything I've tried.
The machine has legs which spread wide enough to go over any pan I have, or fold in so that it can be placed inside a shallow bowl. It rinses cleans in a snap and is dishwasher safe if you procrastinate rinsing off the blades. It's no big deal to store -- I just kerplunked it on top of my colander so it's always handy. I use it about three times a week so that the "investment" of the quite reasonable Amazon price made it a good buy.
Customer Review: Just right... even for big jobs.
Summary: 5 Stars
After a few years of pushing applesauce through a sieve, it was time to get a food mill.
And I went BIG... About 30 pounds of apples. This food mill was up to the job. And the applesauce is delicious. And this time, I just chopped apples - no worrying about skins, seeds, nothin! It all goes into the pot. The food mill just takes it out.
It is sturdy, easy to assemble, comfortable to use, and EASY to clean! I briefly wished it was larger, so I wouldn't have to clean our the seeds, skins and yucky bit quite so often, but then it would be impractical for the smaller jobs I will mostly use it for, and it is a nice size to store.
The thing that really won me over is how simple it is to put together, change screens and clean. And it is sturdy with out being clunky. I would only want a bigger size if I were working in a professional kitchen - and I bet a bigger one would not be so sturdy, comfortable, and so easy to clean.
Oh, and if you get this, a ricer is redundant.