OXOGood Grips Food Mill

The media could not be loaded. Wow, wonderful gadget!This new piece of kitchen equipment has changed my life!I live in the south of Spain and buy my vegetables at the market at a terrific price.I make my own delicious soups; throwing tomatoes, sweet yellow peppers, hot chilli peppers, celery, leeks and garlic into a pan and boiling for approximately one hour.I used to go through a painful procedure of straining by hand with a wooden spoon and then needed to take pain killers and lie down (as I suffer from problems with my spine).My new strainer arrived today; I boiled up the ingredients and then used my new Oxo Good Grips Food Mill. What joy! Easy peasy! Three litres of soup done in a trice. Very easy to clean.Will be trying out with plums, apricots etc. etc....FIVE STARS.Cannot understand how anyone could review this gadget negatively; they must have assembled it wrongly.How have I managed up until now?

OXO are now producing an interesting array of kitchen products along with those little brown stock cubes wrapped up in foil delight. I bought a great pair of OXO kitchen scissors - robust and lifetime sharp. So I felt confident - sight unseen - in buying this food mill. To be honest I did not know I needed it until a recent soup recipe advised on passing the mash through a food mill - I had been tossing the soup into a blender - and this was really too aggressive and spoiled delicate soup flavours. The inner section is stainless steel as are the cutters and a spiral that forces the food through the cutters. The outside body is robust plastic and feels tough for the job. There are three legs that fold out - this lets you use the mill over a bowl or saucepan. Once set up the whole device is firm and easy to use - it just needs a back and forth technique to make sure solids are captured by the spiral and forced through the cutter. Two of the cutters are very fine I am not sure what I'll use those for yet but the larger cutter makes a nice job of grating down cooked vegetables in your soup - my first try was duck soup Moroccan style - the missus loved it with lentiles verte. Using the mill retained great flavours and was a lot easier to clean than a blender.

Bought because I couldn't stand the thought of another electricl kitchen gadget and sqeezing stuff through a seive is really slow.Well packed. Clear simple instructions for assembly and use. Sits over multiple containers from my large (27 cm wide)stockpot to (15cm wide) pans and bowls.It took me a little while to judge the most effective back/forward rotation (but doesn't everything!). Hand working the mill was great but I needed a bit more effort than expected to brace the main handle against the rotation.Well pleased with this year's tomato puree, sauce and passata output.

This reminds me of the one that my grandma had and passed over to my mum. It lasted forever and I am sure this one will too. It is sturdy and very stable, easy to mount/demount. It was a revelation that the original way to remove the internal blade was not lost in translation due to all the cheap China stuff around. Worth every penny. 4 stars only because they haven’t thought about fixing the old problem of steel spindle grinding powder coming out down below in the centre when you slightly overload it.

Got this out of the back of the cupboard and thought I’d give it another chance.Originally bought to replace my mother’s old Mouli-legumes which has fallen to my sister.Absolutely no comparison. There is a huge gap between the blade and the disc, so nothing is pushed through. You just go Round and round, backwards and forwards using a spoon to push a bit of food under the blade. You just end up with a compressed layer of food over the disc and only a little goes through.Time for the bin

looks great, and works very well would recommend

I make a lot of preserves from my garden produce and this has made life so much easier. Before I bought this, to make a puree I would spend ages pushing fruit through a sieve, not great for painful wrists and hands. This is fantastic. What one took a good half an hour or more to sieve a large bowl of fruit pulp now is done easily in 5 - 10 minutes and the ease of it is the best thing. No more aching wrists and cramped hands. Before purchasing, I asked for recommendations in an online preserving group, this one came up tops, a number of people had nothing but good things to say about it. There are other cheaper food mills but, if this is something that you are going to use a lot I definitely recommend this one. It's very robust and the quality is second to none

Bit disappointed with this to be honest. I remember my mum having one to mush my younger sisters food and I thought it would be good for my baby's meals. Ended up being a lot of effort for very little food. It particularly struggled with meat, even when it had been cooked in the slow cooker so was nice and soft. One trick that seemed to help was adding a bit of fluid to the meat but still much less effective than I would have hoped.