Top positive review
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Works Great and Good Value
By S. Kessler on Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2010
I have now used my OXO Good Grips food mill twice to make mashed potatoes and I am very pleased with everything about this food mill -- especially for the price. Years ago, I had an inexpensive plastic mill that was difficult to use and collected dust like a magnet. I finally got rid of it. But as I became more and more involved with developing my cooking techniques, I read so much about the importance of having a food mill. Recently I received an email from Williams Sonoma announcing a brand new All Clad food mill for the whopping sum of $150! I was curious, and love All Clad cookware, so I checked it out. It looked really great, but the price tag felt exorbitant. Then I noticed that WS also sold the OXO for literally one-third the price. There was a long list of five-star reviews for the OXO. I compared features and determined that the only big difference, in addition to a slightly larger size for the All Clad, was that the OXO didn't have the little "wiper" blade at the bottom that the All Clad has, making it necessary to occasionally lift the OXO and scrape the bottom with a spatula. Well, for a saving of $100 I figured that little difference was something I was willing to live with. I immediately checked Amazon and found a slightly better price and more 5-star reviews. I have now used it a couple of times for mashed potatoes, using the coarse disk, and they were wonderful. Light and fluffy. The assembly of the OXO was easy and intuitive. The disks even have "this side up" imprinted on them. The turner assembly clicked right in, and the knob on the handle was very comfortable to hold. There was no drag at all as the blade spun around to push the food through the disk and the potatoes were done in less than half the time it normally took me with a recommended potato ricer. That goes to my neighbor. Cleaning and storage are great, too. Everything goes in the dishwasher. The legs, which fit neatly over my All Clad mixing bowls and almost every pot I have, fold under completely for compact storage in my pots and pans drawer. And it even looks really nice, an added bonus. Update: I made a nice batch of applesauce the other night with this mill. Perfection! It was so easy -- and the texture of the applesauce was perfection. This is definitely a quality product -- well designed, ergonomic, and it even looks good. I highly recommend this product and can't wait to use it for more things.
Top critical review
28 people found this helpful
It's been a struggle...
By John L. Hovan on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2012
I purchased this mill to process tomatoes into sauce. I have struggled for months to find a technique to make it easy to process raw tomatoes for spaghetti sauce. I tried cutting slices, I tried cutting square pieces, but it was a major effort. The mill would just spin them around and not catch them between the blade and the crank mechanism. This device is more suited for pieces that are the size of a pea or smaller. Cutting the equivalent small pieces with a knife is a watery mess. I even tried to hold the pieces still with a rubber spatula to catch the blade. This worked, but is extremely tedious. I tried boiling to remove the peels. Too much work. I was ready to give up on this device when I tried a final technique that works to my satisfaction. I take the tomato and remove the stem. Then I grate each tomato on a course grater into a bowl. I then take the grated pieces from the bowl and dump them into the mill. Whala! This works and is the fastest way I have found to process raw tomatoes into sauce. (Please note that most store sauces are now full of chemicals. All products being sold with High Fructose Corn Syrup have trace amounts of mercury in them! It's in there from the hydrochloric acid being used to process the syrup. The main process for creating hydrochloric acid uses mercury and it picks up trace amounts. Do your homework and you will see this is true. The American food supply has been compromised. Google "Senomyx flavor enhancers" and you will find other surprises.) My time decreased from 3 hours to 15-20 mins in processing 15 or so tomatoes! You can grate a tomato on a grater in about 20 seconds or less. The smaller pieces work well going through the mill and do not pass the skins. Hope this review helps to save you the same frustration I encountered. I'm not sure if this machine can be improved to process larger pieces. I will tell you now, large pieces will just spin. I personally ordered a squeezo machine to process larger quantities of tomatoes more easily. For small batches of tomato sauce, the technique I describe is satisfactory and has helped to improve my opinion of this machine. Mashed potatoes work fine as long as you cook the potatoes to complete softness. Worked good and cleanup is easy. Overall, it's a relative inexpensive way to process tomato sauces and mashed potatoes. Just realize you need small pieces for this machine to work optimal. This goes for potatoes too unless they are very soft.
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