Customer Reviews

MIU France Stainless Steel Tomato/Vegetable Mill

5 star:		(31)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

Very easy to put together and easy to use. Three types of blades makes this food mill versatile for straining tomato seeds to mashing potatos. The price is unbeatable, the size is convenient for single person or small family. The construction is sturdy and simple, which i like because it means less parts to break, put together, and clean. The food mill is great because it purees and strains the food at once. No more fighting with strainers or losing your purees through transfering them between food processer and strainer. I decided to buy this foodmill after realizing a decent sized chinois strainer with pestle (yes, sometimes you have to buy the pestle separately) can cost the same and often times more. This mill has been a real pleasure to use and I am grateful of the investment.
NOTE: THE BLADE-PLATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MILL IS CONCAVED AND SHOULD POINT TOWARD YOU, IE, POINT UPWARD. this way the rotating blade will slide snugly over the plate. It should be very easy to turn. If you find the rotating blade hard to turn, or hard to fit into place, you've probably have the 'blade-plate' upside down. Device only have 3 pieces when put together, not too many variation as to how to put it together...

Everyone where I live in central Italy uses this thing, called a "passatore"; means you can "pass" the vegetables through this mill. With scandals about homogenized baby food abounding, people make their own. Great also for soups (passato), making PASS-ta sauce (kidding, but it removes the tomato seeds nicely). Sorry to hear about the injury, as the other reviewer points out, put the grater disk round side up, commmon sense, the sharp side should come in contact with the vegetables; it's not easy to get the blades into the notches on the base becasue the spring is tight, that may be where she hurt herself, but it's not hard either! I think there's a picture on the box. Anyway, nice stainless steel, as easy to clean as a food processor, more expensive than the Italian ones (aroud $5!) but it's bigger and much more sturdy and the stainless is a plus. Try it!

I'd never used a food mill before, so I can't compare this to anything else, but it worked very well for me. We used it to prepare food for our baby when she started solids. It didn't come with any instructions, but was simple enough to figure out. It was very easy to take it apart and put it in the dishwasher. A very good buy, especially when you look at the price of commercially prepared baby food, which, more often than not, has additives that aren't good for your baby.

this doesn't come with any instructions, but fortunately I've seen them used and it wasn't hard to figure out. Reading the 1 star review, it's possible that the blade was in upside down which does make it very hard to turn - the blade should be curved side up, inside the mill, so underneath is concave. Once that's done, it's a champ, easy to clean, fairly easy to assemble/take apart. These can be really expensive, so this was a pretty good price. I'd recommend it.

I found the directions from the manufacture. Click on the link below. Hope this helps.

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Stainless Steel Food Mill Directions:
Step 1: Select the Grater setting you wish to use. I.e.... Fine, Medium or Course.
Step 2: Insert the Blade "Convex" or rougher side up, so that the grinding plate has a
textured surface to mash the food.
Step 3: The hole in the middle of the blades is for placement of the center pin with spring
located on the underside of the rotating grinding plate. If the hole on the grater plate is
not filled with the center pin, then your Grater plate is probably upside down, smooth
side up or "concave" side up. This will not work so flip the blade over.
Step 4: Once the grinding plate center pin is in place, Push down slightly on the center
pin spring. This will allow you to hook the arms into place. If you are not able to turn
the grinding plate easily then your grater plate is probably upside down and you will have
to start over.

Pros: it sits on top of the receptacle instead of hanging into it, like many other food mills do (including many priced much higher); the bowl and disks are all stainless and don't rust like my old one; it's made of metal and not plastic (again, old one)

Cons: The guage of the metal on the bowl is a little thinner than I'd like, but it's really only an aesthetic issue.

This is a wonderful device for processing tomatoes (use the smallest-holed disk to strain out the seeds from canned ones!), cooked potatoes and squash and other stuff like that, avocados, and so on. For tomatoes in particular the processing gives you nice smooth tomato puree with relatively little introduction of air, like you get with a blender.

I just got this a couple of months ago and have used it to make tomato sauce, applesauce and pumpkin puree. I have never used another food mill before so I can only compare it to my food processor. It is WAY better than the latter since you can determine your own coarseness. With a food processor, you end up with chunks and the rest sauce-like. So you puree it for longer just to get rid of the chunks and then the rest is just too runny. With this food mill, it all comes out uniformly and it is very easy to use. And you don't have to worry about stuff flying around your kitchen (if your food processor leaks) since it all ends up in the bowl you set the food mill onto.

We had the same experience as the person who mentioned that the discs were near impossible to insert and remove for arthritic hands. Neither my mother (with arthritis) nor my step-father (without arthritis) could properly insert the discs. Purchase the Oxo good-grips food mill instead; it is extremely easy to switch discs, plus has rubber legs to grip the pot below the mill.

Excellent operating device that cleans easily. We've had ours now for over a year and does beautiful work. Some reviewers had assembly trouble on the account that there is no instrucion manual. I had similar difficulties initially. So, if you cannot get the mill to turn, you have the grater (insert) upside down. (This is somewhat counterintuitive because the whole device is shiny and the correct upward facing grater surface is matte. The shiny side goes down)

Good luck with your food mill!

This mill does what it needs to do, and looks pretty good too. It is fairly lightweight, so if you wanted something for daily use this is not the choice I would make. For the rest of us, who use a food mill once every few months, this does the job.