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kitchenware Food Mill for Sauce?

mcbob

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I'm looking for opinions on using a food mill for sauce preparation.
Currently I have been using a sieve to separate the remaining skins and seeds from my fermented sauces. This method works well but is very tedious.
The sieve does seem to remove more fiber that I prefer which leaves the sauce a bit thin. I usually end up adding some pulp back to the mix to correct it.
I have been looking at some manual food mills as a possible replacement to the sieve method.
Can anyone offer up an opinion on how effective a mill might be for consistency and to speed the processing time up?
 
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There's a back handle and the front handle has a cutaway making it level when resting on a standard 6/8/10/12 qt. pot.

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Thought I would provide an after-purchase update.
Its built well and price was a bargain. There were some issues that i will resolve later.
I decided to run some chunky salsa that was made and canned last fall for a test. The mill really didn't push this soft processed material through the screens as expected. I determined it was an issue with the clearance between the rotating blade and the screen at the bottom that the material is ground against. The factory had a rubber grommet to provide the spacing for that clearance. The blade really needed to be adjusted closer to the screen to make this work well.
I will be replacing the rubber spacer with some food grade washers in a stack to get the clearance to make this work correctly.
I do think with the changes it will save me some time getting sauce to a consistency minus the seeds and skins that I'm looking for.
I didn't have any issues with the lack of feet, it seems to work ok if you choose the proper sized bowl to use with it.
This harvest this fall is when I will actually put it to use as intended though.
 
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