George Shirley wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
>
>> nutNhoney wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing tomatoes today. A couple of days ago, I did whole tomatoes
>>> both canned and frozen. I peeled because DH hates the peels so he
>>> helped peel. Today, I'm doing two recipes (crushed, spiced) that
>>> call for peeled and cored tomatoes. Tomorrow I will be doing 48 jars
>>> of salsa which means more peeling and coring. Later in the week, I'm
>>> doing chili sauce, and you guessed it, peeling and coring. I hate
>>> peeling tomatoes! What I hate more is coring the tomatoes
>>>
>>> After that, I'm doing several other tomato products that I can use a
>>> food mill with except I don't have one. So, I'm going into town in
>>> the morning to look for one. Any advice on buying one?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't buy the fancy stainless steel one with 3 interchangable screens.
>> Buy an old-fashioned "Foley" tin-plated food mill. It comes in 2
>> sizes; I think I have the smaller one.
>>
>> The stainless food mills have too small a screen, and they don't have
>> the wire on the backside that scrapes the back of the screen, so they
>> are very slow and plug up quickly.
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> Don't know about the Foley type mills but my Best Buy is plastic and
> stainless with a crank and works great. In addition it comes with a
> tomato screen and I bought the grape screen and IIRC there is another
> one available.

a "pumpkin" screen

> Have never had it plug up on anything and nothing but
> seeds and skins come out the other end. Cost 50 or 60 bux a few years
> back and has more than paid for itself in time and effort saved.
>

I have one of the original "Squeezo" juicers like that; it looks sort of
like a meat grinder. It is all aluminum except for the screeen (which
is stainless.) It works OK, but I think the al changes the taste of
tomato juice (I could be imagining it) I've thought about selling it
and buying one of those cheap plastic Victoria tomato juicers.

The Foley food mill does a pretty good job with tomatoes, and an even
better job with cooked apples, and it looks good hanging from a hook in
the kitchen. <g> You can't just run it continuously tho, you have to
stop and clean the skins out every once in a while (just turn the crank
backwards once and dump it out)

Bob