I usually get every burner on my stove going, heat the pots of apples, process the mush into sauce, then can the lot. The canning part takes the longest.

Anyway if you can apple sauce, you need this tool.

33 of 33 found the following review helpful:

Works well, but...  Jul 25, 2006
By Kevin
The tray on the top of the unit it very small. Yoy can only put about 1/2 cup at a time in it. I know they make an attachment you can buy for like $25-30 to give yourself a larger tray. But it should just be designed larger. We usually make about 15-20 quarts of Applesauce at a time. the larger tray is a must. The "pusher" to move food down the throat is a bad design. Should be a solid cylindar instead of a cross shape. Tends to catch food and is messy.

The end result of using it is good, but it's over priced, and could be designed a little better.

24 of 24 found the following review helpful:

If You're Only Making Applesauce  Jan 17, 2009
By NuJoi "Create with me"
If you're only making applesauce, this is a 5-star product. If you had other uses in mind, keep reading:

I thought this would replace the need for a food mill. Not quite. This would be better if you could vary the size of the holes in the screen. I don't like it for tomato sauce; the juice was too thin. I do use it when making spinach lasagna to get all of the water out of the spinach (the spinach is really bone dry when I'm done, which was what I wanted.)

20 of 21 found the following review helpful:

Will not work with blackberries!  Nov 24, 2009
By Disappointed jam maker
I purchased the grinder/strainer combination so I could make blackberry jam easily. I read through the instruction booklet to be sure I was doing it correctly. It started out fine, but then the strainer got clogged with seeds,and the strainer burst apart at the seams.

Kitchen Aid help line person was very good and said they would send me a new part. When I asked what I could do so it wouldn't happen again, she looked up on their troubleshooting site. On the site, it warned against using large seeded-fruit such as blackberries. Had this been mentioned in their instruction booklet, I would have returned the item unused and gotten my money back. As it is now, I'll try to sell it and recoup part of my purchase price.

12 of 12 found the following review helpful:

Kitchenaid Fruit/Veg Strainer is a HUGE timesaver  Aug 12, 2009
By Katharine Kapanakis "jam-a-holic"
I used to spend hours at the kitchen sink pressing my homegrown raspberries through a sieve so that I could make seedless jam. This attachment literally flies through them. The only drawback is that you have to stop and clean out the seeds one or two times, and the puree that comes out is not completely seedless, but to me that is far better than the back-breaking work at the sink. I also use this for tomatoes and it is amazing. What used to take hours (blanching, peeling, chopping, seeding) is now done in a matter of minutes. Hooray for this brilliant attachment!

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