Customer Reviews

KitchenAid FVSP Fruit and Vegetable Strainer Parts for Food Grinder

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I bought this attachment to go along with the food grinder attachment (sold separately.) Wow - I can't believe how quickly I can make fresh applesauce. I simmer quartered apples - seeds, cores, peels, and all - until tender, then send them through the strainer. In minutes, I have fresh, hot applesauce. The refuse is expelled through the end and into another bowl, so you never have to worry about all that peeling and coring.

Tomato sauce? Just as easy. Fresh quartered tomatoes go in one end; the juice/pulp and the seeds come out separately. After that, it's only a matter of cooking the sauce down.

The strainer is a great addition to my kitchen.

I bought one of these several years ago and have used it quite a bit. It is very handy for straining, if a bit slow and messy. The big gripe I have with the product is -- one of the first times I used it (straining blackberries) the seam down the side of the strainer cone split. I continued to use it for a couple of years, but it finally split completely and became unusable. I called about a replacement and the customer service representative told me that they do not reccommend straining blackberries in it, for just that reason. I looked in my manual. I couldn't find a warning to that effect, although in all fairness the straining instructions contain a list of fruit and blackberries are not listed. At any rate I think it is really sorry that this fruit strainer self destructs over blackberries. The real clincher to my poor review is that the strainer cone, just that one dinky peice, costs $$$$$ to replace. I was in too much shock to even ask about shipping costs....

I tried this for rasberries and it left too much of the berry stuff among the seeds, so foolishly I ran it through again. That cracked the strainer. I'm still using it (cracked and all) for applesauce, going on 15 years, and its still the cat's pajamas. Everyfall it gets loaned out to my friends who don't own a mixer. (Otherwise I'd buy them this strainer pack).

But for Applesauce, its is so worth it. A 16qt pan of apple mash (skins, seeds, stems) takes about 10 minutes to seperate into muck and sauce. Why can it, when you can make it fresh anytime you want it?

Makes much easier work of processing tomatoes (home grown or farmer's market) for tomato sauce, and I am looking forward to processing fall apples for apple sauce for canning. I wish the instructions were more helpful. Tells you how to assemble and clean it, but no instructions and just a few recipes. I had to find out for myself that I need to put the tomato waste through three times to get the most juice and pulp. You have to experiment with it. We are going to try it with grapes this fall, for juice and wine.

When chilly autumn breezes fill the air, our thought always turn to applesauce -- homemade, warm and fresh from our Kitchenaid mixer. The fruit and vegetable strainer attatchments make this fall treat possible. It's ability to turn out perfect applesauce (as well as tomato sauce, jams and other natural, homemade goodies) makes it a welcomed addition to any kitchen. We simply cut and core the apples, bring them to a "mushy" texture on the stove, and dump them through our Kitchenaid food grinder with the strainer attatchments in place. In seconds, we have fresh applesauce, as well as having plenty to can or freeze. Don't sell your Kitchenaid mixture short -- use these valuable attatchments to see it do the amazing!

I have had my kitchen aide for about 25 years. My husband has rebuilt it twice. Yes, you can get parts. We had a farm and I used it for straining tomatoes, blackberries,pumpkin and various other produce. It was a great tool for all. It gets stuck once in a while, but just wash it off and get going again.

I bought this because I was needing something to juice wheatgrass. I had the Kitchenaid stand mixer and really did not want to buy yet another expensive counter gadget if I did not have too. I opted to buy this instead and found a reconditioned one on Ebay for $30, including shipping. This works fabulously for juicing wheatgrass. From start to clean-up, I can juice about 2 ounces in 8-10 minutes. I've done some comparison viewing online and from what I can tell, this attachment works the same as the expensive juicers work. Is it perfect? No. Sometimes the grass gets hung up, sometimes the juice seeps out where it shouldn't, sometimes the pulp is still a tad wet so I run it through again. But, these are all comments I've seen on other juicers so I don't think the more expensive models are any better.

All in all, this serves the purpose for what I need and I am extremely pleased I got away with only a $30 investment instead of a $225+ investment for a wheatgrass juicer.

Oh, I did try other greens such as spinach, lettuce, cucumbers, and even tomatoes. It juiced those just as well. Very pleased with this attachment.

We've only used it so far on tomatoes to make sauce but it worked great! We bought tomatoes in bulk to make sauce to freeze and it saved us alot of time and energy. We previously had a hand crank one and it was a pain in the rump!!!! We ordered this attachment since we already had the KitchenAid mixer and we were very pleased. We look forward to trying it on other foods as we try to improve on the type of foods we eat.

I used this product for peaches and apricots. It separated the pulp from the skins quite nicely. I ended up using the pumpkin screen - I had also ordered the set of different size screens - as I had a significant amount of pulp leaking around the narrow end of the output area (apologies for my terminology) with the screen that comes with the machine. Still worked just great, and leakage stopped. I did reprocess the outflow and got a little more pulp - the reprocessed waste was completely dry. I processed 8 flats of peaches and 4 of apricots in an hour, including screen changes, and this was my first time using the machine. I was absolutely delighted. I'm looking forward to using the berry screen and also to making tomato sauce. Fabulous product!

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. 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.)


Update 3/21/06 I made applesauce yesterday with this attachment and it was wonderful.