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?

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

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. 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.

George

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

in article , zxcvbob at
wrote on 23/8/04 9:24 AM:

> 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
I use, and our community kitchen uses, the plastic (cheaper than the fancy
stainless steel) ones with detachable different sized bottoms. I also have
a foley and a very large all metal detachable bottom one. Even though I
grew up with the Foley and its wire that scrapes the puree off, I find the
others easier to use. Perhaps the Foley has chaged since mine was purchased
years ago, but it doesn't push the puree through as easily as the detachable
screen ones. So much for different folks and different likes.
I think that you can buy a medium sized plastic with detachable screens for
about 20 dollars new in the US, more here in Canada. Good luck . Which
ever you choose, it will make life much more simple.
Ellen
--