KitchenAid Fruit & Vegetable Strainer Parts (FVSP)

I have used this for the past 10 years to make tomato sauce. it does a great job of removing the seeds & skin. However, two parts have chips in them and you can't just replace it you have to buy the whole thing again. Also, when running for hours, its very noisy.

I studied and researched this attachment and ordered. Tried it right away and it works like a dream. No more having to blanch tomatoes to remove skin and seeds. I see so many batches of Passat in my future ! I will be going squash too for soups !!! (This review was collected as part of a promotion.)

The instructions are minimal at best. I put it together and started to use it to make applesauce. 'It's easy!' they said, "Super fast!" they said. There was no direction to use a 2nd bowl to catch the dried pulp and seeds at the end of the strainer. Next thing I know, there's a mess all over my counter. Then nothing was coming out anylonger. The end of the strainer was completely plugged up and I had put less than 2 pints jars worth of cooked down apples through. With a mess on my counter and the strainer not working, I called it quits. What would normally have taken me 5 minutes to make and another 5 to clean up with a hand cranked food mill took over 1/2 hour with this gadget. There was wasted applesauce. I wouldn't gift this to someone I really disliked. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

Bought this last year pre-harvest season and was very impressed on how it could handle tomatoes, pears and apples. Pears and apples need to be blanched to soften them up a bit but they go right through. With 5 gallons of fruit, I end up with only about 3-4 cups of waste. Probably 5 times more efficient than anything else I've used, and completed in 1/4 of the time. Granted I send the fruit through the processor 3 times to get as much juice and solids out of fruit as possible. With this I've done ~60 quarts of pear sauce, 50 quarts of apple sauce and at least 300 quarts of tomato based sauce's and soups. Unfortunately today the shaft broke in half and now I'm stuck with my last 9 gallons of pears to process and needing to wait a couple days for a new shaft. Note I gave the design a 3 rather than lower because I don't know the duty cycles the parts were engineered towards and I probably exceeded them. As an engineer I know the balance of designing parts as robust as possible, for the 99 percentile user, while management tries to reduce cost and reducing the robustness to say the 90 percentile user. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]

This is the best strainer, easy to use and works like a dream. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]