Weston Deluxe Electric Tomato Strainer, Food Mill, Sauce Maker for Salsa, Fruits, Apples, Berries, 4 Quart (82-0250-W)

One of my children asked me if I was making tomatoes this year. Honestly, I hadn't thought about it. If you have never made tomato sauce know that making tomatoes is hard work, especially if you are doing it alone. Given the price of groceries lately and making a quick calculation, I decided it was worth investing my time and money. I order this gem of a machine to help me out. I bought 6 cases of tomatoes and made 77 jars of tomato passata in one day....for me and for my children. Doing tomato sauce, as I said above, is hard work, doing it alone the hard work is double. This Weston Tomato Strainer made my work much easier and the sauce it produced was excellent.

I had older Victorio manual crank model; time consuming, but I did it. Later, bought add-on motor to make it electric. It leaked all over the place from every end, but I used it for years. I just got the Weston model this week, used for 1st time today. Once I put it together, I finished 7 qts of tomato sauce to freeze in 30 minutes. No leaks, works great. But read the instructions! I had watched a woman do tomatoes in one on a video. First thing I noticed is gray juice running out of her machine. 1. The head is aluminium. If you run it through the dishwasher, it's no longer shiny. Instructions say only plastic parts are dishwasher safe. 2. Instructions say to coat head with food-grade silicone spray. -bc we all have that sitting around.🙄 I lightly coated with vegetable oil; no gray juice. Instructions say to chop food into smaller pieces and not to run for more than 5 minutes at a time. I noted one review complained hers caught on fire, so I figured that was a good rule to follow. I cleaned my tomatoes, did not blanch, cut up some into a container, ran them through, shut it off and cleared shute before preparing another container full. May sound tedious, but -7 quarts of sauce in 30 minutes! The manual style made doing tomatoes a long process. Adding a motor to it made a horrible mess with wasted product & clean up a nightmare. THIS is so worth following the instructions, and clean up was a breeze. I noted one review complained about the shute being so low that it was hard to get a decent sized bowl under it. Maybe they rectified that bc shute is adjustable. BUT: With the manual model, having the shoot too high caused a back up and - you guessed it-leaks. But I was limited on where I could use it bc it mounted to the edge of a countertop with a clamp. This Weston model has no clamp and can be used anywhere. I set it next to the sink with a large bowl and small bowl sitting in the sink. The product came out of the shute into large bowl and the skin/waste went into small bowl. Clean up was a breeze! Noise level- not as loud as the add on motor I had. Not a heavy duty motor, I understand why they advice to not run continuously. Value- phenominal, given time and product saved, no mess, easy clean up, user friendly set up (if you read the instructions). If they had used stainless for the head, the gray residue wouldn't be an issue, but comparing prices of higher end models, it makes it more affordable to use aluminium.

I've been canning for about 45 years. I've always used a hand crank tomatoe food mill for my sauce. HOWEVER, after using this electric food mill, canning sauce is sooo much easier. The unit is NOT loud. I find that during the process I do have to use the reverse button every now and then to unclog the spiral strainer. But other wise this so much quicker and does a great job. I did have to build a box for it to set on so I could fit a kettle under the shoot. GREAT PRODUCT for all you homesteaders. Also relatively easy to clean.

Je suis très satisfaite de l'appareil pour un produit domestique.

This product works great, processed a little over 60 pounds of tomatoes I had in freezer from the last years harvest. You can't run frozen tomatoes or half frozen through unit but defrosted over night and they ran through machine just fine. I will say this though...with my larger heirloom tomatoes like big beef the screen does plug up very quickly due to the thicker skin, what is nice though is the machine is very easy to clean so it was not a problem. Had to clean screen and machine every 15 pounds of tomatoes but it was worth it because the sauce was so clean, no skin and only the the really small seeds were in sauce.