Granite Ware Stainless Steel Deluxe Food Mill - 2-Quart, Durable and Rust-Resistant - Hand Crank with 3 Interchangeable Discs for Purees, Sauces, Soups, Baby Food, Dishwasher Safe

I bought this long before canning season so had to wait a while to submit a review. Mill works great for apple sauce/apple butter. I boil apples whole, spoon into the mill and grind out the sauce. Then, I put pulp and spices into a crock pot to simmer until sauce or butter consistency. So easy and quick. No pre-peeling, no de-seeding necessary.To get maximum pulp, I back- and forward- spin until gone. Just scrape and scrap the seeds, stems and whatever is left of the peeling. Over all I had very little waste - actually, I canned the waste parts by request of my daughter so I had no waste. Comfortable to hold and rests nicely on the sides of a bowl. Only challenge is to switch out disks or remove them to wash. Requires a lot of muscle and grit to release; the metal on metal screeching is akin to fingernails on a chalkboard, but it eventually comes apart. Otherwise, easy to mill and easy to wash.

I bought this back in September because I didn’t want to hassle with peeling and seeding tomatoes again this year. I held off on writing a review because I wanted to have used it plenty of times first. I can say that this has made things so much easier- I read some reviews where people said it wouldn’t sieve out tomato seeds and I’ve found that to be untrue. I’ve used this for tomatoes, cranberries, and pumpkin so far and have had excellent results. I wonder if some people have had their food fall on the outside of the mill and gotten seeds in their end product- this has happened to me. Overall would recommend, makes canning things so much easier and I wish I had bought this for before I made my applesauce and grape jam.

This works great - after a minor adjustment to the blade pitch. While trying this for the first time before using with food, the presser blade was scraping the sieve disk, making it very hard to turn and creating the possibility for metal shavings. It should not be contacting the disk. Instead of returning it, I disassembled it, took a pair of pliers and bent the blade up slightly, reducing the angle of attack by about one millimeter (1/16th inch). This adjustment allowed the blade to clear the sieve disk and it now works wonderfully! I was able to process tomato sauce in 1/4 of the time with MUCH less effort than manually pressing through a strainer and there was less waste. It was actually fun to watch it work! Assembly and disassembly is a little bit challenging for a person with weak hands (I have very minor arthritis), but not so hard once you figure it out: put one side of the locking arm in first, then rotate the mill so you have a good angle, and press the second side straight down over the notch and it pops in. It's much harder if you try to slide in in from the side of the notch. Once disassembled, it's easy to clean.

I received the food mill yesterday. It came with instructions and looked in good condition. I put the fine-hole milling disc in the body of the mill and when I turned the crank handle, the disc on the crank handle rubbed against the side of the mill body so badly that I couldn't turn the crank through a complete revolution. I really had to force it to get it by the tight spot. This wasn't going to work at all as a tomato mill, or for anything else. As I needed to prep all of the tomatoes I already picked for sauce, I decided to try to fix it by grinding the place on the handle disc where it hit the mill body with a Dremel. If that didn't work, I'd return it. Fortunately, it worked, and the mill works well. The handle now turns completely and smoothly, and my sauce is now simmering as I type. So be aware of this problem when buying this food mill, but it can be remedied.

I really like this mill. I had seen a friend use her mill for making grape jelly and getting out all of the seeds and now, a few years later, I decided one would be really handy to help me get all of the pits out of frozen cherries from the tree. It worked really well. I microwaved my frozen cherries and then stuck them in this mill over a bowl and cranked. I did a little at a time and it was quick and easy. The cherry pits did seem to get stuck after a little while, so I think this might be better suited to fruits with smaller seeds, yet it was still fine for me. Set up and clean up was pretty easy with this model as well. I will definitely be using mine again in the near future and I think my friends will be borrowing it too.

Don't depend on removing skins from tomatoes, a bit difficult to clean, and take apart to change discs, but it does the job it's intended for, a Keeper!

This is a food miil I expected to be very good. Design is great, funstionality much less.It splatters as it mills and it does not mill very well due to its construction.UPDATE ** a year laterA piece of crap. Functionality is horrible, as mentioned earlier, not only splatters all over, it also does the following things1. gets stuck and out of the driving hole when it encounters a piece of food that is too hard.2. The smashing plate/blade and the discs are simply not strong and do not come close enough to puree certain foods for example potatoes or chickpeas (all already cooked).3. The metal holders to hold in on a bowl are located by the top rim which means that the food mill seats lower on a bowl. So you will need a extra deep bowl or you will be scraping food constantly from the base.

Make sure you put it together correctly. I red a lot of reviews that said it didn't turn easily. I purposely put in the grate upside down, it goes together but super hard to turn and makes a horrible noise. Assemble correctly and no noise and easy to turn.