I canned eight gallons of applesauce without having to take this product apart and clean it. That is a big deal for me, what a time saver. Everything else I have used usually clogs up, and I have to stop to clean it out.
It left all the good stuff in, and the core and seeds were discarded as dry as can be. NO WASTE!

Have used only once so far. Prepared sweet potatos and apples. A dream for apples. Not so for sweet potatoes, had to pass through the sweet potatoes several times and clear the gunk twice to get just three potatoes to pass through. So this is not the end all be all for straining, however if you are an apple sauce fan... or other similar fruits...it's a dream. Lots of parts to assemble/dissemble and clean. Also instructions advise cooking foods before straining, so this is a multi-step process. Parts are sturdy, expect it to last a long time. Most certainly is far better than pushing foods through strainer by hand! Really need blender for some foods and this strainer for others to have complete coverage of baby food straining capabilities. Note: this item requires the food grinder to complete the parts needed to function.

I bought this item to make applesauce during a banner year for the old heirloom apple trees on our property. This item adds on to the grinder/sausage maker attachment, which I already own and use to make venison burger and sausage. I was amazed at how well the strainer worked. Just quarter the apples, cook in a pot with some water until softened and then run them through the strainer and out comes perfect applesauce from one end and dry pulp, skin and seeds from the other. I have canned 36 quarts so far. It is very fast and feeds effortlessly. Setup and takedown and cleanup are fast and easy. It seems to be well made and durable.

Exceeded all my expectations. We peeled, removed vine attachment and ran 75 lbs of roma tomatoes through the processor. The end result was 2 bowels of materials 1) perfectly made tomato sauce and 2) seeds and core material. It did such a good job of processing the tomatoes I ended up using both bowels seeds and all. The sauce is amazing. The consistency is best in class restaurant style sauce (not that puree stuff you get in a can though it could easily make that if you only used the primary bucket of tomato product it makes).

That attachment is a wonderful addition to my Kitchen Aid.
I make LOTS of homemade jam and for Blackberries and Black Raspberries and Red Raspberries--------------It is a miracle !!!

Wow! What a great product. My husband and I can a fair share of tomato sauce every year. Prior to buying this attachment, we used a hand-crank vegetable strainer. It was great, but this product took a good idea and ran with it. For anyone who owns a KitchenAid Stand Mixer, this was well-worth the money. It grinds raw tomatoes to a thick sauce, disgarding the seeds and skins to a separate discharge funnel. Place two bowls under both the tomato sauce end and the skins/ seeds ends, turn on a switch and you're in business. Par-cooked apples are easily processed into scads of delicious home-made applesauce. If this one wears out, we're getting another!

This is a wonderful attachment for the Kitchen Aid Mixer. My wife makes lots of tomato and apple juice and the attachment makes it so easy. I have always avoided making juice because it was so hard and time consuming.

I bought this product for making applesauce and it works great. No need to core the apple - just cut into pieces and cook. Very quick and easy.

My wife wanted to make apple sauce; she had the apples all she needed was the stainer. She purchased a cheap hand model that clamped on to the table. Many people said it worked well: it didn't for her. I bought her the vegetable strainer parts for the food grinder of our Kitchenaid. She couldn't be happier. It works great!

I have been canning for about 10 years now and always used the hand crank. But mine finally gave out (bolt broke, strainer rusted and so on). I was getting ready to buy a new one when I saw the new prices. I paid 20 bucks for the original, now they are around $55 so I had a gift card and decided to spend my fifty on the trio pack (grinder/slicer/strainer). I ordered it from Sur La Table and had it in 6 days. I made my first batch of sauce, not sure if I like it for sauce or not since my sauce didn't come out real thick but I used different tomatoes this time ( I normally grow heirloom tomatoes for sauce that have thick meaty insides). But I just made my first batch of applesauce ever. I can't believe how easy this is to use, even for the sauce. The only down side I find is the tray size. I am use to using the big funnel on my hand crack so I need to adjust now. Even though I am 5'9" I feel that it sits to high on the counter to look into the grinder hopper. I would recommend this product for its quick use and basically easy to clean (buy a bottle brush to get into the tight spots).

The fruit and vegetable strainer works well for tomatoes and apples and other fruits and vegetables with larger seeds. The screen is not fine enough for raspberries. I put the berries through twice and got a lot of seeds coming through the screen. I still had to use my old hand crank food mill to seperate the seeds from the pulp. I use it on speed #4.

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 have used this vegetable strainer to puree tomatoes for tomato sauce. I have also used this strainer to make applesauce. It is extremely easy to use.

For tomato sauce, I cored and quartered tomatoes and placed them in a large pot with a little water. After they were softened, I strained the tomatos. I found that I was able to get more sauce if I placed the discarded peels through the strainer a second time.

For the apple sauce, I quartered apples and placed them in a large pot with a little water. I did not core the apples. I then placed the cooked apples through the vegetable strainer. The peels and seeds were very cleanly separated from the applesauce.

When straining vegetables, this stainer does make a mess. But it saves me so much time that I don't mind the clean up.

I harvested 23 shopping bags of apples last fall and needed an easy way to make applesauce. Since I already have a KitchenAid mixer and Food Grinder, I thought this might work. And it does. It works easily and quickly with no core nor seeds nor peelings in the sauce. I put them in the compost.
I highly recommend KitchenAid Fruit and Vegetable Strainer

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.

Every fall I make a ton of applesauce and was using the old crank Squezo. It was a lot of work. Then I bought the Fruite and Vegie strainer and it works great!! I was very impressed with it. The garbage that comes out the end is nice and dry, so you know your not loosing any juice with the scraps. No more cranking, so it went quite a bit faster. I am very happy with it and would rec. this product.

The KitchenAid Fruit and Vegetable Strainer, along with the Food Grinder is the only way to go when making applesauce! Cuts time and waste.

This is a wonderful attachment for the Kitchen Aid Mixer. I have made lots of tomato juice this year and the attachment made it so easy. I have always avoided making juice because it was so hard and time consuming.

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.

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?

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....

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.

The attachments that are available for KitchenAid mixers are worth their weight in gold. This is the most recent attachment I've purchased for my mixer. I can't tell you how much time was saved when making apple butter and apple relish for the holiday season. This time of year, saving time is a good thing when there doesn't seem to be enough time for everything on your LISTS!!! Happy Holidays!

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 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.

this is fantastic for canning your tomatoes it takes all of the hard work of taking the skins off and also takes out the seeds for the people unable to have seeds

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!