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With the Roma Food Strainer & Sauce Maker you can quickly and easily make healthy homemade sauces, jams, jellies, wines, juices and even purees for baby foods from just about any fruit or vegetable imaginable. No More Peeling or Coring! The Roma Food Strainer & Sauce Maker does it all for you! The Roma is so easy to set-up & use, it will become indispensable to cooks & gardeners alike. Now you can use fresh ingredients for all of your recipes & never worry about additives or preservatives again.
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63 of 69 people found the following review helpful
By My Review
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I have used this Roma Vegetable Strainer for making apple sauce twice. Previously I have used the Victorio strainer (very nice and sturdy, but no longer available) and Back to Basics (stronger than the Roma in my opinion, but not as good as the Victorio - it had a lot of parts to lose and was not rust resistant). The Roma is easy to put together and seems to be rust resistant, but is weak, flimsy, unstable, and doesn't hold on my counter well with either the suction or the clamp.
Things I like about the Roma Strainer:
* Pieces attach easily without nuts and bolts
* Seem to be rust resistant (The Back-to-Basics strainer that I bought 15 years ago had some parts that would rust)
* Plastic cone that takes the waste (seeds, core and skin) away is farther from the sauce dispenser, making it easier to have various shapes of bowls.
Things I dislike about the Roma Strainer:
* The suction cup does not hold on my smooth quartz counter-top. Nice try, but it doesn't work.
* I have a bull-nose (rounded edge) to my counter-top so the clasp doesn't work very well either - it isn't long enough to reach around the bull-nose. So, it starts wiggling fairly quickly and isn't very stable, with no way to attach it more firmly.
* The handle is much harder to turn than the old Victorio (purchased 30 years ago) or Back-to-basics (purchased 16 years ago) strainers I have previously used. As I turn the handle, the vertical support seems to wobble or bend a bit, as though it isn't very strong.
* The handle seems a bit flimsy.
* Turning the handle is stiffer with more resistance than with the other strainers I have used before. (You tire more quickly.
* I have to run the waste product through 2 x as there is a lot of good applesauce that goes out with it.
The materials and workmanship are poorer quality. Some of the features (fewer parts to get lost) are nicer. Overall, though, my experience is that it is not nearly as good or as easy to use as the other strainers I have used in the past.
Things I like about the Roma Strainer:
* Pieces attach easily without nuts and bolts
* Seem to be rust resistant (The Back-to-Basics strainer that I bought 15 years ago had some parts that would rust)
* Plastic cone that takes the waste (seeds, core and skin) away is farther from the sauce dispenser, making it easier to have various shapes of bowls.
Things I dislike about the Roma Strainer:
* The suction cup does not hold on my smooth quartz counter-top. Nice try, but it doesn't work.
* I have a bull-nose (rounded edge) to my counter-top so the clasp doesn't work very well either - it isn't long enough to reach around the bull-nose. So, it starts wiggling fairly quickly and isn't very stable, with no way to attach it more firmly.
* The handle is much harder to turn than the old Victorio (purchased 30 years ago) or Back-to-basics (purchased 16 years ago) strainers I have previously used. As I turn the handle, the vertical support seems to wobble or bend a bit, as though it isn't very strong.
* The handle seems a bit flimsy.
* Turning the handle is stiffer with more resistance than with the other strainers I have used before. (You tire more quickly.
* I have to run the waste product through 2 x as there is a lot of good applesauce that goes out with it.
The materials and workmanship are poorer quality. Some of the features (fewer parts to get lost) are nicer. Overall, though, my experience is that it is not nearly as good or as easy to use as the other strainers I have used in the past.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By MJ
Amazon Verified Purchase
I've been using this strainer for my current cherry tomato crop (as usual, I planted way too many), and it has made short work of squishing the pulp out while separating the skins and seeds. I simply wash the tomatoes and dump them in. The only reason I give less than 5 starts is that the suction on the bottom kept releasing periodically, even when I tried sending fewer tomatoes through. I tried dampening the bottom, which helped, but it still eventually lost its grip. Also, the plastic gasket that is supposed to keep tomato guts from squeezing out the top of the screen (top as in end closest to strainer body) doesn't fit well (at least in mine), and won't stay in the machine. This doesn't seem to make much difference, however, as long as you have everything on tight.
Overall, it was a good purchase.
Overall, it was a good purchase.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
We had a similar unit that was around 20 years old. Every time we used it would leak all over the kitchen floor making it a real pain to clean up afterwards. This New model is leak proof and is a real joy to use. It is very easy to setup and very easy to clean. The juice goes where it should and the compressed leftovers go thru a long tube away from the pount of operation so processing is easy. This product makes canning a job we look forward to doing in the fall. Highly recommended!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
works great for canning!
does exactly what we needed it to do to make applesauce each winter! Easy to use and easy to clean!
Published 2 days ago by J. Payne
5.0 out of 5 stars
a canning necessity
This tool works very well, is durable and easily cleanable. We use it in much of our canning and food processing.
Published 11 days ago by Melvin L. White
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it...a MUST for canning
Bought this to process tomatos. It's an absolute pain to clean, but makes up for that in the ease of use and how much you can put through it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Casey
5.0 out of 5 stars
works great
The only thing I have a hard time with is getting it to stay put on my counter, which has these weird edges that i can't get the clamp around. Otherwise, it works great.
Published 2 months ago by Lucas
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for family time
We make sauces as a family and this is something the girls (6 and 9) love to do. They take turns on the handle as I cook and scoop into the hopper. It makes for a great afternoon! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Carol and David Mack
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful
I used this to make my daughter's baby food. Was easy to put together and easy to clean up. Great purchase!
Published 3 months ago by Michelle A Long
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazing time saver!
unbelievable! This saved us so much time with our tomato harvest. Truly made quick work of those tomatoes. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Brett Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Big Hit
Made canning much less labor intensive, used in conjunction with all other items purchased to combine into much less painful canning....loving it.
Published 3 months ago by Julia Senkbeil
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful what more can I say.
Have not had a problem as of yet, fairly easy to set up and clean. I have had it a few months now and it's made my canning so much easier.
Published 4 months ago by J. Jabben
5.0 out of 5 stars
so far so good
This product looks great. we unpacked it and everything seems in order. I did not use it yet though. I would recommend this to all my friends who do home canning.
Published 4 months ago by Boni
