KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit/Vegetable Strainer and Food Grinder for Stand Mixers

by KitchenAid

Product Features

• Both strainer and grinder attach to all KitchenAid household stand mixers
• Prepare fruit and vegetable sauces, chutneys, and jams
• Grind meats, dried fruits, vegetables, cheese, and bread crumbs
• Strainer and grinder assemble easily without tools
• 4-Inches long

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 9.5 x 13 inches ; 3.7 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004SGFJ
• Item model number: FVSGA
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,063 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

These two accessories, which may be used with all KitchenAid household stand mixers, turn many tough kitchen chores into walks in the park. The strainer, for example, converts cooked apples and pears into sauces for preserving or immediate consumption. Freezer jams are a snap; so is fresh tomato sauce. Baby foods can be made in quantity and frozen. The grinder is equally versatile--think chuck or turkey for fresh hamburgers; Parmesan for pasta or cheddar for quesadillas; peppers, onions, and tomatoes for salsa; apples for chunky sauce. The grinder has two plates, coarse and fine, the latter of which converts stale bread into crumbs in a jiffy. Both strainer and grinder assemble and disassemble quickly and easily without tools, and most parts are dishwasher-safe. --Fred Brack

Product Description

Quickly and easily strain fresh fruits and vegetables, grind fresh or cooked meat, and so much more with this combination of the fruit and vegetable strainer and food grinder attachment.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

89 of 91 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best applesauce maker since the tree, May 3, 2000

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G. Powell (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit/Vegetable Strainer and Food Grinder for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

This gizmo makes the shortest work of making applesauce you ever imagined. You slice the apples, cook in a large pan with a small amount of water until they are soft. Then you push the apple mush, skins, seeds, core, stems, etc. in the top of the food grinder, and out the sieve part comes pure applesauce, out the end, comes the seeds, skin and stem. It takes maybe 10 minutes to process a 16qt pot of cooked apples.

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.

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Works well, but..., July 25, 2006

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Kevin (VA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit/Vegetable Strainer and Food Grinder for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

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.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If You're Only Making Applesauce, January 17, 2009

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NuJoi "Create with me" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit/Vegetable Strainer and Food Grinder for Stand Mixers (Kitchen)

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.)