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pls rec your foodmill for canning season!
I dabbled in canning a little bit last year but hope to really do a lot more this year. when I made raspberry jam last year the recipe called for running it through a food mill to get rid of the seeds. a quick search for a food mill on amazon brought up a lot of them! do any of you have one that you use for canning recipes and that you would recommend? thanks!!
Re: pls rec your foodmill for canning season!
Norpro Sauce Master is our food mill. I made 3 huge batches of apple butter with it last year and a whole bunch of grape jelly.
It works wonderfully and it's easy to clean no complaints from me.
http://www.amazon.com/Norpro-The-Original-Sauce-Master/dp/B0000DDVMQ
this is one of the ones I was looking at! do you have some of the special screens? are they necessary?? TIA!
The spiral and screen it came with has worked well for what we've done. The seeds are a little larger so the screen worked perfect.
I'm just a beginner and chose easy stuff to start with, but I think the other screens with smaller holes would be for things with much smaller seeds like berries. We haven't done any berry canning yet and haven't needed any.
I think the screens are necessary depending on the food your working with, if I remember correctly, the manual has a list of the screens and uses. It's stored up too high for me to check right now.
We use the Norpro too. I researched what foodmill to get very heavily, and this got the best reviews. It works okay IMHO.
Pros: It does a good job of getting the seeds and pulp out of foods, and results in a very smooth, consistent product. It makes great tomato sauce, I would not even TRY to can tomato sauce without it.
Cons: It's flimsy and mostly plastic. We melted our hopper when we put hot tomatoes down it, so we let our tomatoes cool before running them through the hopper. The handle of ours also leaks, so we have a rag wrapped around it.
I think the extra screens are very necessary. We have the tomato/applesauce and berry screens. They work very differently, and work well for what they're intended for.
anyone have experience with the oxo food mill? they also have it at sur la table and I have a gift card so it would be nice to get it there. they don't sell the norpro there.
http://www.amazon.com/Oxo-Good-Grips-Food-Mill/dp/B000I0MGKE
I thought about this, and this would work well for small batches of stuff. But when you're canning ~30 pounds of tomatoes at a time to make tomato sauce, I'm sure having to empty this out every 4-5 tomato would get really old, really fast. The Norpro shoots the peels, seeds, and cores out of a chute on the side, so you can process much larger quantities than a regular over-the-pot food mill.
oh ok thanks for the input!! I definitely want to be able to do big batches. the baby has a gift card for amazon, so maybe I will just use that for the norpro on amazon, its kinda for him too no?!