Customer Reviews

Rösle 16251 Food Mill/Passetout with 2 Disks

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Rosle Food Mill/Passetout with 2 Disks
This food mill is beautifully made and everything functions very smoothly. The machining and quality of the steel is excellent. The handle works very smoothly and it can be placed securely over a mixing bowl to work. It is typical of all the things this company makes: very high quality, esthetically pleasing, well-conceived and a bit expensive. To get a complete set of disks, you have to purchase the others separately, but the two that come with it are useful enough, depending on what it is used for. I hardly use the food processor any more, preferring more "primitive" but satisfying methods like this and mortar and pestle.

I bought my first one locally at William-Sonoma. I am very happy with its performance when making seedless jams. I have also had success with pumpkin for making pumpkin butters. I purchsed my second one for a gift here at amazon. Quick shippment and same great quality.

Great product! I have made applesauce for my family for forty years. Thiis food mill cut the time in half and gave you a choice of consistancy of your product. I would recommend this to all!

I bought this with the 8mm sieve for spaezle. Work perfect, much better than any other spaezle maker or utensil I ever had.

Really unhappy with this product. I use a food mill a lot around the house and this had some warts from the start. The mill did not feed food in well and required a lot of scraper use to keep food in the processing area. It is now broken after 3 months of use, after paying $100+ i expect a lot better durability

I love using this food mill. It is well put together, and it works very well for making deviled eggs, mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. I am very glad that I bought this. I also bought the extra disks which fit the mill, and it makes it much more versatile.

I've had this food mill for several years, received it as a gift. It is well built and works great. I've used it to make applesauce, mashed potatoes, steamed pumpkin, etc. It goes together and comes apart quite easily and cleans up quickly. I just bought the 8mm disk so I can try spaetlze.

I really wanted to purchase this product, however I will not!
I have many Rösle product; however I will never own one that say (is not made in the origin of their conception) MADE IN CHINA. Cheap labor is not the answer marketing this product. This was a highly regarded name by professionals and professional home cooks as a beautiful German made task specific kitchen tool sadly, it now has a big black eye and a lot of frustrated and disgruntled fans and X-fans. NEWS FLASH Rösle! None of my friends or self want to have anything in their kitchen made in china! for many different reasons, in fact I have on more than one occasion seen people in high end kitchen shops looking at all of the items on the Rösle racks, franticly, trying to find the last of the authentic German Rösle items that still say made in GERMANY on them. Your company just shot themselves in the foot. Make them in Germany and charge a little more, people that buy quality European products have the discretionary income to pay a little more for the assurance that it is of European quality, materials, by a European community that has pride in craftsmanship and that the wages to make them stay in that country.
If it says:
* Rösle
* Proudly Made in Germany
You will have my Business and money!
If not you get nothing ZERO from myself, many friends, colleagues and fellow chefs that I know.

Understanding what your dollar is buying is more important today than ever. The guidance on reviews is to provide information that you would have liked to have had before buying. It is in this spirit that this review is written.

You have most likely done some comparison shopping on food mills, and have perhaps come across ads for the Cuisipro, Norpro, RSVP International, OXO, MIU, All Clad and other food mills that compete with Rösle. The prices on these food mills vary from roughly $40 up to $120. Many come with two disks, and some with three. Some are plastic body (OXO), others are stainless steel.

Whenever buying a product, particularly one that is at the high end of the price spectrum such as the Rösle, you hope that you are getting what you are paying for. I am willing to pay more for an item that is made by an experienced and skilled craftsman using high-quality materials regardless of the country of origin. Kramer knives, All Clad, Mauviel, and Le Creuset cookware, Laguiole corkscrews are a few examples of kitchen items that cost more, and at least in my view are well worth it. If you assume that the premium that you pay for a Rösle food mill (or any other Rösle product for that matter) is because it is still made in Europe, by experienced German metalworkers, using a high-quality German stainless steel, and assembled in Europe, then you are unfortunately now mistaken. Despite the umlaut and the German text on the packaging, if you look more carefully you will now find a very small label on the box indicated that the item is now made in China. When I visited a Sur La Table store, and looked at many other Rösle items, all of them were now made in China. Since Cuisipro, Norpro, RSVP, OXO and numerous other food mills are also made in China, and cost one-third to one-half of what the Rösle sells for, it became very hard for me to justify the substantial incremental cost.

I wrote to Rösle about this change (according to the staff at Sur La Table they did previously make the product in Germany). Rösle had an opportunity to respond and set the record straight. Perhaps the mill parts are still made in Germany but merely assembled in China? Perhaps the stainless steel is still made in Germany but is formed in China? I never did get a response, and so their silence is perhaps an indication of the true answer. Like many other corporations, they have decided to manufacture abroad, increase their profit margin, and maintain their premium price. If they can maintain their prior level of quality, great. I am just not willing to take that risk. I bought it, and after seeing the half-inch by half-inch Made in China label, returned it. Thanks, but no thanks. Not at the price you are asking.

Poor quality. I expected to pay more and have an item that lasted forever. However, I got Chinese quality with a German price. Don't waste your money.