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

by KitchenAid

• 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 (86 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,206 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)
  • #88 in Home & Kitchen > Kitchen & Dining > Small Appliance Parts & Accessories > Mixer Parts & Accessories

Product Description

Amazon.com

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

KitchenAid's Fruit & Vegetable Strainer with Food Grinder Attachment includes a strainer cone, strainer tray and splash shield fit onto the included Food Grinder Attachment for straining or pureeing fruits and vegetables into foods like jam, sauces and baby food. Two stainless steel grinding plates, fine and coarse, are included. Grind raw or cooked meat and dried bread using the fine plate. The coarse plate is used to grind firm vegetables, dried fruits, cheese and raw or cooked meat. In addition to the grinder body and plates, the attachment comes with a combination food pusher/wrench to help safely push foods into the grinder as well as to help loosen the ring from the grinder body.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

115 of 117 people found the following review helpful

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

By G. Powell

Length: 1:11 Mins

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.

Update: I made this short video so you can see the food strainer in action, sorry it got cut short, my chip ran out of space, and I'm out of time. But you can get the gist of how easy it is to use.

PS
It should not be used for blackberries or raspberries. The seeds clog up the strainer and too much of the fruit comes out the end. I ran my tailings through twice and cracked the end of the strainer. It still works for applesauce but a replacement is expensive.

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful

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

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful

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

By NuJoi VINE™ VOICE

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.)

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Will not work with blackberries! November 24, 2009

By Disappointed jam maker

Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Works well, but designed for small quantity use January 2, 2010

By Mom-Unit

Amazon Verified Purchase

I've used a food grinder and fruit/veg strainer for almost 30 years with my old Oster kitchen center, so I'm very used to the concept and application. The Kitchenaid strainer is considerably smaller and has less output than my Oster's attachment. The top feed tray and the diameter of the input hole are tiny in comparison. Whoever designed this unit did not plan on someone home-canning a large quantity of food... it is designed for an occasional pressing/straining of baby food or light duty use. This is disappointing.

You will definitely need to purchase the additional optional food tray!

As for the strainer, with common sense and care it should do very well. You just have to cook any fruit which isn't already totally soft or cooked until completely mushy. I do like the backward pour-out design of the strainer unit.

Also, the picture shows a wooden pusher; the unit now comes with a plastic pusher which doubles as a wrench for a too-tight twist holding nut. It also is molded with places for your fingers, which is nice.

I like the quality of the Kitchenaid plastic. My old Oster finally gave up after almost 30 years; the motor's still going strong but the plastic Oster attachments are broken :( Let's see how the Kitchenaid holds up after 30 years of hard use.

The Kitchenaid food grinder metal plates and blade are smaller, thinner and less well made than my old Oster's. I am slightly disappointed with the design.

Please don't think I'm unhappy with my choice of replacement for my faithful but retired Oster. It's just that I was expecting an upgrade in design because of the hype and cachet of the Kitchenaid brand.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Kitchenaid Fruit/Veg Strainer is a HUGE timesaver August 12, 2009

By Katharine Kapanakis

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!