Side by Side Comparison of: Victorio Kitchen Products vs RSVP

I wish I had bought this many years ago. I've been making applesauce for 14 years .. an average of 30 quarts each year. In the past, I've used the old fashioned metal strainer style with a wood handle for pressing the sauce. This year, I bought this Victorio Deluxe Food Strainer. Amazing!! I couldn't believe how little waste it makes. The strainer has ability to squeeze the apple pulp nearly dry! Every drop of sauce is cleanly channeled into a pan or bowl. The pulp is funneled out and into a small waiting bowl. The handle did have a small drip of juice.. but overall cleanup was simple and well worth the extra trouble and multiple pieces that need washed. The Victorio made my sauce making and canning go much faster. Very happy with this purchase.

What a wonderful time saver! I suggest watching the video to set it up the first time. Part # 12 was warped, but called customer service and they sent me a new one right away. I have used it for tomatoes three times. Today, I timed how long it took from set up to clean up. It took me 30 minutes to process a batch of tomatoes with the salsa accessory where I ended up with 10 cups of tomatoes. (I purchased the accessory kit, too.) It took me a couple of times to get the hang of quickly setting up the food strainer, but third time was the charm. Plus, it is easy to clean. I use a small brush to clean the screens. Be sure to take out the handle before you try and remove the screen. Love, love, love it!

So far I've only used this once, but my initial impression is that it works great. I took 6 pounds of apples, softened them on the stove and ran them through this and got a fantastic sauce. All the seeds and skins pushed out the end exactly as they were supposed to.

I attached it to a bullnose countertop, but the instructions strongly suggest to use a square faced countertop or table. I had no problems with the countertop, but it might have been an issue if the apples weren't as soft as they were. Although this is a great device, I recommend you only use it if you intend to make a large batch of product. 6 pounds of apples was a good amount, but even more would be better since there will always be a chunk or two that get stuck in the bottom of the funnel and don't get into the screw press. The more you run through the machine the smaller a percentage of waste this will be.

Bought this when I finally couldn't take the slice and freeze method any more. The assembly is fairly simple--though affixing the mesh cone to the body appliance could be difficult for some. I had some drippage issues--the answer was in the troubleshooting section of the pamphlet. Running the waste through a second time does two things: pushes the first pass through completely and squeezes out all of the juice and pulp possible. Washing up is a bit involved, but I don't think it took me more than 15 minutes--I did it directly after finishing the pressing operations while the sauce came up to a thickening simmer.
Major gripe: the spring is exposed at the very back of the unit and food gets trapped between the back of the unit and the large base of the spiralizer--and inside the exposed spring. Annoying, a bit messy, but not truly wasteful as it couldn't be mroe than a tablespoon or two of material.
Thrilled I finally purchased this and will be using it for years to come I hope.

I promised someone I'd come back and review the model 250 when I got mine. Here's the update--it works just as well as the old model. The table clamp is better, but the way the screen attaches is worse, since you have to grab onto it to take it apart now. It leaks just as the old model did, but a little less. All in all though, it works like a charm and turns out a beautiful job with little work. The review below still stands for the newer model.

I can a LOT of tomatoes. This year I did 30-50 pounds a week, all summer. My old process: wash tomatoes. Cut slits in the bottom of tomatoes. Dunk tomatoes in boiling water. Once the skins split, dunk in ice water. Peel the tomatoes. Cut out the core. Cut off green shoulders. Cut off bad bits. Put tomato in saucepan. Crust tomatoes with potato masher. Cook down the tomatoes, process in water bath canner. This takes ALL DAY.

Then a friend took pity on me and loaned me her Victorio Strainer. It's at least 30 years old, probably older and still in great shape. The first time I used it, it was like the heavens had opened and angels began to sing. Here's my new process: Wash tomatoes. Cut off bad bits. Cut tomato in half or quarters. Run through the strainer. Cook down and process. DONE. The resulting puree is gorgeous and seed and peel free. I can use tomatoes with blossom end rot--just cut that bit off. I can use all my cherry tomatoes that I could never preserve before. There is almost no waste--after you run the tomatoes through once, dump all the peels and cores back in and run them again. You'll be shocked at how much more juice and pulp comes out. The resulting waste is almost dry. I had a gallon of waste from 50 pounds of tomatoes. This thing is completely amazing.

It does leak a bit. Don't know if that's because it's old, or it's the nature of the beast. I DO NOT CARE. The screen is a bit of a pain to clean. I DO NOT CARE. This thing is so much faster and so much better than doing it all by hand, these small annoyances are nothing. We also did 100 pounds of Concord grapes for juice with this, and it was awesome. I'm here to buy my own so I can return the one I'm using.

Oh, just save yourself the aggravation and buy the accessory pack while you're here. Once you start using it for something like tomatoes, you'll look around and want to do grapes, or salsa, or pumpkin... better get those accessories now.

Quality heavy duty stainless steel. A fine piece of cooking equipment. Very satisfied.

High quality stainless steel make this food mill hard to beat! Comes with everything in the picture, and even a recipe book to get the full use of the product. We have had food mills in the past but this one is made to last and I would imagine it will be the last one we ever need to purchase!

I bought this Food Mill for use in making jam because my hubby doesn't like the seeds in fruit jams. I've used it on blackberry jam and strawberry jam and it does an amazing job straining the fruit. Highly recommend for anyone making fruit jams. I know this Food Mill has a myriad of other uses, but I haven't tried it for anything other than making jam so far.

I have used this more than I expected to. It is sturdy and easy to clean. Other reviews have mentioned the size as too small, but unless you are making gallons of something the is size is perfectly adequate. I use mine mostly for processing garden produce for canning/freezing but I believe this would be an exceptional tool for making your own baby food.

Love the smooth rotation of this food mill and the stainless steel finish. Having three disks makes baby food to toddler foods and apple butter to applesauce. The best food mill I have ever had and the rotatory handle does not wear a hole in your palm like most models.

This is a great product. We have actually used the product prior to writing this review, so hopefully the review will be helpful. The product has been used for the most perfect mashed potatoes for both Thanksgiving and Christmas (use the largest blade). It has also been used to make home canned hot sauce. Using the smallest blade the mill perfectly removed all pepper and tomato seeds and all of the tomato skins, as well. No need to boil and skin tomatoes again. The stainless finish is a breeze to clean and the mill looks great on the "gadget shelf". It is a bit easier to mill the foods with a partner to help hold the mill steady while turning the handle if milling into a large pot or bowl, but using a small pot seemed to alleviate the problem.

I used this machine to make tomato sauce. It works well, once you get it set up properly. You have to be sure that the counter or table you clamp it to has a wide enough edge to allow you to slide the bracket all the way to the back. I had a narrow lip to my table that only allowed me to slide the machine about halfway. It kept coming loose and slipping off the table. Since then, I've purchased a 2 x 6 board about 18" long that I'll clamp to the table. It will hang over the edge of the table by 3". That will allow me to seat the machine all the way back into the clamping mechanism.

The other issue I had is that the juice leaks out a little around the bushing that the crank slips into. Not a big deal. Just be sure to put a towel or something on the floor to catch the drips.

It's a good gizmo for the price. I've had mine for three tomato harvests now, and each year I churn out quarts of tomato sauce. I've done the harvest peeling tomatoes by hand, and I definitely don't want to go back - particularly since this lets me turn even cherry tomatoes into puree that's great for sauce and ketchup. It's not the world's sturdiest thing; I have to hip-check it against the counter to keep it from wiggling loose, in part because it's quite stiff to turn, at least until the juice starts flowing and eases things up a little. It is easy to clean, and with practice it's fairly easy to use. I've used it on a batch of cooked apricot - terrible idea! hot, sticky mess, and the heat seemed to jam it more - and on raw tomatoes, on which it works pretty well. When it breaks, I'll probably spring for the strainer attachment for my Kitchen-Aid, but this was about half the cost and does a decent job. It's reasonably sturdy, but the plastic spout that directs out the skins and seeds snaps on and it seems inevitable that the clips will snap at some point.

For years, I made sauce by plunging tomatoes into hot water to peel them -- then seeding them -- and straining the seeds to get more juice (and pressing the skins in a chinois). About 8 years ago, I received a Kitchen Aid with the set of attachments that included the food mill attachment. That food mill attachment certainly made life a lot easier but I was still doing a lot of work -- seeding the tomatoes, cooking them down, letting them cool and then putting them through the food mill attachment. The Kitchen Aid food mill attachment is much smaller and comes to a point at the end -- so it jams up with skins a LOT, and the metal mesh straining sleeve fills up with fibers. I had to stop and clean it out quite often.

A few years ago, I happened to see the Victorio food strainer and sauce maker -- and I thought about it, but kept putting it off because -- well, I already have something similar, right? Finally, this year -- I saw that there was a new model out and they have dropped the price so I took the plunge.

I honestly wish I had tried this YEARS ago. My only improvements on this would be to improve where the handle fits into the body to reduce dripping from there, and to increase the height of the thing so that I could put a larger bowl under to catch the sauce.

I put through 20# each of San Marzano and Beefsteak tomatoes and ended up with 15 qts of sauce (not even including the 3 qts of juice from seeding them). Two weeks earlier, I had 60# of San Marzano tomatoes and ended up with 18 qts of sauce using the KA -- I probably cooked it down longer but still -- I am pretty sure that I got a LOT more sauce using the Victorio. I'll update my review next season with additional results.

I bought this a couple of weeks ago and my first use produced 32 quarts of tomato juice. It is easy to fasten to a counter top, easy to turn and sends the seeds and skins out the end as promised. I even put some jalapenos through it with the tomatoes to add some zing. Just like the tomatoes the skin and seeds went out the end. Works great. I would give it 5 stars but I had a hard time removing the screen/strainer after I was finished. That may be just because of the tomato bits still in the screen making it slippery. It would be nice if each of the different strainers had a couple of knobs on the base that could be used to turn the screen the quarter turn needed to put it on and remove it. THis is well constructed and I see little that could break or go wrong so I expect that it will last a long time.

This item was pretty much what I expected. I put it to use the day it arrived to process tomatoes for sauce - finished in record time compared to scalding, peeling & de-seeding by hand. I found that the "squirt guard" works better if install upside down from what the manual shows. My first experience gained me a few red blotches on my shirt. It was worth the purchase price based on the time it will save me when putting up tomato sauce.

My concerns: It's not as sturdily made as it could be - there was a lot of deflection at the top when cranking the handle while doing my tomatoes - makes me wonder what its life expectancy will be; the plastic spiral inside that pushes the product through and against the strainer does not fit all the way back inside the body - which means you have to nudge some of your product into the "screw" to get it through the strainer; the handle should have some sort of 'snap' mechanism to keep it in place - it kept falling out on me.

I would recommend this product - just don't expect it to be of commercial grade construction.

Works great, just a little clumsy to use as it scoots around when you turn the blade. However it does a great job and made my canning go a lot quicker this year.

Seems well made.... I like that it has 3 different grater size attachments and I like that it is made of stainless steel and easy to clean. Just waiting for apple season to use it. I was going to use it to skin tomatoes but decided it was just as easy to stick them in boiling water for a few seconds and peel them. I think I just need a few more ideas as to what to use my product on...

Worked fine for making jam, but not as well when used on tomatoes.

Admittedly I am not an expert. This was my first time at using a food mill and it didn't do what I wanted it to do .... thin out chunky salsa ... it just left the chunks in the holder and all I got was juice

Light weight. No as durable as grandma's original

Excellent for making apple butter.

I have a love/hate relationship with this thing every year. I process around 125 lbs of tomatoes a year. I can’t decide if it’s faster than blanching and screening or not...about every 20 lbs of processing, I have to take the entire thing apart and clean before starting back at it. Towards the end, it gets even worse and I maybe get through 7 lbs before having to take it apart to clean it. It’s a great idea, it just doesn’t always work as I expect it should.

My mom had one of these and it worked awesome so I was really excited to have my own! I wasn't that impressed. Guess they just don't make them like they used to. The plunger melted during the first batch of hot apples ( my mom's still has the original plunger so I didn't know melting was even an option). The strainer also let through A LOT of apple peel and core. I'm considering buying the smaller strainer but it doesn't make sense that the one for apples doesn't really strain apples. The part where the gunk comes out is also not made well. The apple peel and core get stuck between the metal grate and the plastic chute and start going down the slide. It would work better without the chute, but the white plastic slide doesn't fit or stay on without the clear plastic chute. I saved up for awhile to get this food strainer and was very disappointed in the outcome.

We have used several different models of the Victorio Food Strainer before, that were borrowed from friends and family, and were very impressed with the ease and efficiency the product provided. However, when we purchased our own, the newer model did not meet up with our same approval.

Within the first two uses of the Victorio, the red plunger (that pushes the food into the funnel) completely compressed in on itself-due to the quality of the plastic and/or hollow inside of the plunger. Also, the rubber ring that helps seal the grinder was too large for the opening and ended up bending and stretching more because it didn't fit properly into the opening. This improper fitting also caused the food strainer to lock up at times are make an squealing noise.

We contacted the company within that week-15 days after receiving the product- and they were very helpful in sending out a replacement parts-free of charge. The replacement parts were delivered in under 3 days and so far things seem to be working better. The ring still is a bit larger then the opening and the plunger seems identical to the one it replaced, but we haven't had any further issues. It may have just been a faulty set we initially received.

I purchased this product through Amazon in fall 2013. It arrived quickly and the box was in good condition. However, when I began to put it together I immediately noticed that the gasket that goes inside the strainer (to keep it from leaking) was made of a stiffer material than the rubber which is typically found in other appliances (blenders, etc.)... and it wouldn't lay flat. It buckled up in 2 different areas. That said, when I had to lay it sideways in the strainer as I attached it to the mechanism, it probably didn't stay where it was supposed to stay and it definitely didn't do what it was supposed to do... apple sauce was shooting out all over the place--even straight out the handle at me! I have used these types of food strainers before without any problems, but the Victorio left my kitchen a complete disaster. Don't think we didn't try to solve the problem--resituating the gasket time and time again (which is a nasty task when you're in the middle of making apple sauce) and even trying to create our own gaskets out of rubber lid removers, but nothing really worked. Knowing that I would have to repeat the process again soon (lots of apples!), I immediately contacted the manufacturer via email to request a replacement gasket. In their email response they told me that they would go ahead and send me a replacement free of charge, but basically blamed me for not being careful when I put the machine together. Whatever. Just send me the replacement and we'll move on, right? Wrong. One month later and still no replacement gasket. They had their chance to make this situation right and they chose not to bother. So I chose not to bother with Victorio. I sent the food strainer back to Amazon and next year when it's time for apple saucing, I'll go with the brand that my in-laws have used for the past couple of years with no problems--the Roma. After reading the reviews, I couldn't find anything to indicate a problem with the Victorio gaskets, but the way that companies try to cut costs these days I think it's worth noting that I purchased this item in fall 2013. Maybe they modified the gasket material recently. If so, bad idea. That's not something you want to cheap out on. If it hadn't been for the faulty gasket, the strainer would have gotten 5 stars.

So... after using this to process about 15 lbs of tomatoes out of our garden to can tomato "sauce" I can say that it is VERY GOOD at pulverizing tomatoes and removing skin, seeds, and cores. However, I can say that if you would like anything other than a VERY FINELY processed juice/pulp mixture, this device is not for you. If you want to reserve the juice of the tomatoes separately from the pulp that it puts out, you can pretty much forget about it. It does a great job separating all of the solids from the tomato "pulp" and juice. That being said, I tried to use a fine mesh colander to further separate the solids from the juice, to no avail. This is because the machine so finely processes the tomatoes that it is impossible to further separate, because the pulp clogs any screen that the juice might run through. Also, if you intend to make any type of sauce with your tomatoes that you would desire any real texture derived from tomato solids, you can forget about that, too. If you are making tomato sauce... in the very TRADITIONAL sense of the word, meaning a finely pureed, no chunk, cooked tomato liquid, then this is what you are looking for. If you want any tomato chunks WHATSOEVER then you should skin, core, and seed your tomatoes another way. I had better luck with the traditional method of scoring the X on the bottom then boiling the skins off, cutting the tomatoes and squishing and washing seeds out through a colander. I then put them through a traditional food mill. I also did this once without seeding them and it was okay... just a few seeds, if that is acceptable to you. It was not a lot more work to do this, especially considering the amount of work it takes to clean the Victorio machine when you are done. WHAT A CHORE. If you are making traditional Italian "tomato gravy" or "sauce" as we Americans would find it in the can, then the Victorio is what you are looking for. If you are looking to make a textured tomato sauce like you might want to put on any number of American dishes like spaghetti or lasagna, then you may just want to take the time to break it down by hand, and reserve the juice for soups and pot roasts, instead of having to cook it off for hours, which is what I had to do with the product from the Victorio. It really just depends on what you need. This machine puts out one specific product... tomato puree with juice combined. End of story.

This is a womderful stainless steel kitchen product. Unfortunately it did not work for me as I hoped it would. I want to separate fruit from seeds and have used it for lilikoi, suriname cherries and mysore raspberries. It just does not work for that purpose. I would have been better off with a traditional cone shaped ricer. The spinning part does not come in close enough contact with the screens.

Not as good as my old one

THis works well but the circumfrance is too small for most bowls. Also the depth of the unit severly limits the amount that can be put inot the bowl. I used it to make applesauce (I make about 8 quarts at a time) and I had to use a small plastic (1 quart) bowl that I could only fill 3/4 of the way. This slowed down my production too much so I went and got an OXO brand from BBAB. Cost a little more but worked out in my application much better (it spans an 8 quart Pyrex glass bowl)

I purchased this as a gift for my wife. She likes it but I have noticed that it has rusted slightly at the edges. She says that it works great and uses it often.

I purchased this hoping it would save me time preparing Thanksgiving dinner. I had hoped it would be able to rice potatoes and remove the peels...not so. While the mill is strong and sturdy, the blade did not fit closely enough to really remove peels. It did however work nicely sifting flour. I hope it does a better job making applesauce.Additionally, it was pretty heavy and it was difficult to find a bowl to fit it.I should have believed the reviews I read, but it just looks so great...next time I shall just buy a potato ricer.

I used this food mill to process an over abundance of tomatoes from my garden. It worked pretty well but be prepared for a messy job. For the price, it worked as advertised. Made well with strong gauge stainless steel. Wear an apron!

I have been thinking about getting a food mill for some time. eventually I hope to grow enough tomatoes to can sauce. I bought it recently hoping it would be good for processing pomegranate seeds. We have a bumper crop of pomegranates this year. So we tried it with the standard spiral and strainer that comes with the unit. The manual indicates that the standard spiral and strainer may be used for pomegranates. It DID NOT. The seeds jammed in the strainer. All we got was a big mess and had to used the old ricer. So, I ordered the grape spiral. It work a little better, but the seeds were very difficult for the spiral to move through the strainer and the process scraped too much of the seeds into the juice, making it bitter and cloudy. Hopefully this mill will work much better for tomatoes.

The motor did not securely attach to the mill and it wasn't powerful enough. I am on the process of returning the bundle.
The other reviewers is what I went by for my purchase of the product but it is coming back. I gave it a 2 or a 1 because it was easy to assemble. Sorry but not for me

I bought this to make applesauce. If all the parts were working correctly it would have been great but the rubber seal was stretched and didn't seal properly so there was piping hot applesauce dripping from the connection point and out of the handle while I turned it. I ended up burning my foot/leg from it dripping and splashing on me. It was a complete mess. I plan on writing the company and returning it. It added several hours to our canning process because we kept having to take it apart and clean everything.

Used it with the motor for 50 lbs of tomatoes.
It cannot handle a quantity of tomatoes.
You must clean strainer often. I was getting mostly water and very little pulp.
I returned it and bought a Fabio Leonardi machine (bought the half horsepower one). What a difference. Did 75 lbs of tomatoes in no time and the pulp coming out was amazing.
Do yourself a favor and buy a better quality machine. Fabio Leonardi or O.M.R.A brands.
The difference was clearly visible and worth the extra money.

We borrowed a similar machine from friends to make applesauce. It worked so well that I bought this one thinking that it would work just as well. The first time we used it, it worked okay. We definitely had more coming out the wrong end than with our friend's machine, but we were okay with that. The third time we used it the o-ring got trashed and we couldn't get the thing apart very easily. When we finally got it apart and tried using it again without the o-ring we had a lot of run-off coming out the wrong end. Also, the metal grater part is started to get dented and the screw broke off. It doesn't look like we can still return it so I will try getting a different o-ring or making other changes to make it better, but if it doesn't work better I'm just going to take it to Goodwill and borrow our friends again.

Be careful with this one. As soon as it arrived, the handle came off in my hand. I never even got to try it. Made in China.

My daughter has an issue with too much texture in her food, but hates the sound of the blender so I thought I would try this food mill since it doesn't have all of the plastic on other mills. Upon opening the package, I could tell this mill was cheaply slapped together in China. There's a jagged shard of metal sticking out from the bottom edge and splintering wood on the handle which was sloppily glued. Hoping it would at least function well, I gave it a try. It did a mediocre job on the food, seemed barely better than if I had mashed it with a fork. Tested on my daughter, she agreed... rejected. Plus, about a quarter of the food wouldn't even go through, so it was wasted. I will be returning this item.

First off, I really wanted to like this food mill. The price is right, the qualityis heavy, nice looking and there are no sharp edges.However, the food mill hangs off the top, which means there is 4.25 inches below the rimof your bowl or pot. That's not practical as I'm not going to process a lot of stuff to warrant mystock pot and using a step ladder (I'm short). I should be able to cook say 6 apples and dump them in the millplaced on top of a bowl. Or, puree a few carrots.Just see the pictures.I ruled out OXO because of the price and plastic parts. If I get another food mill it will be one that has legs to sit on top of a bowl.For canning tomatoes and berries, I will probably purchase the Victorio.Victorio VKP250 Model 250 Food Strainer and Sauce MakerI am returning the RSVP Endurance food mill without testdriving it as I saw it wouldn't work for me right off the bat.

this food mill has a blade that is too far from the grate. You waste alot of food with this mill. I have returned this product.

Below is the text of my OXO Good Grips Food Mill review. I am also posting it here since it is relevant to people considering the RSVP product since this was the product I compared it to.---I compared the OXO Food mill with the RSVP mill online before purchasing. I first went with the RSVP product based strictly on price (since the ratings were essentially the same). The first thing I made was Tomato Sauce/marinara wherein I cooked tomatoes with garlic, herbs, and Olive oil and passed them through the mill. Immediately, I saw there was a LOT of waste with the RSVP mill. The food would just spin around in the top of the mill and not be passed through the holes in the metal disc (coarsest disc used). I shook the thing, ran the crank in the opposite direction to move the food around and reposition it. took out my wooden spoon to 'help' the mill by breaking down the tomatoes more. bit by bit, more and more food got processed but despite all my efforts, I would estimate 10-15 percent of the tomatoes just wouldn't go through, even after 5-10 minutes of cajoling. Let me make something clear here. These tomatoes were canned Marzano tomatoes which had ALREADY BEEN PEELED AND SEEDED - they practically crush themselves. It seemed to me that since the 'bad' stuff the mill was designed to remove was already gone , every bit of these tomatoes should gone through. I had a similar experience with my applesauce attempt using the medium disc. A lot of wasted apples and a rather meager (though delicious!) yield of applesauce.I'd never owned a Food Mill before and just thought this was how they worked...I was browsing Sur La Table one afternoon and they had the OXO mill out on display. The disks caught my eye. They were not just discs with holes cut in them, but were actually shaped to allow the food to pass through them. The holes were raised slightly, almost like the blades of a cheese grater. You could tell by looking at them that much more food would be crushed and pushed through. So I came home and ordered the OXO mill from Amazon as well.Night and day.On my marinara test as well as the applesauce test, the OXO mill ran circles around RSVP. All of the tomatoes went through and the resulting marinara had an excellent texture - not soupy in the least. I cranked less than 2 minutes. The applesauce was perfect as well and the Mill worked as promised - removing the peels and the seeds. In both cases, the yield was much higher.To me, the only thing I think the RSVP mill has going for it is the looks and general quality of construction. It is heavy stainless steel and all of the parts will clearly last a lifetime. It has a distinctly professional/industrial look and feel to it. The OXO has a good weight to it, and it definitely feels like it is well made, but there are some plastic parts (most notably the 'quick release' mechanism for attaching the crank) which leaves me with the lingering feeling that someday, years in the future, this will have to be replaced.Still, I would highly recommend the OXO Good Grips Food Mill to anyone in the market for a food mill for home use. If/When it does fail, I will not hesitate to buy another one (unless of course, it breaks down in like a week (doubtful))

this thing is a piece of garbage, very poorly made leaks all over, does not separate all the seeds like it claims, just 1 big waste of time and money
very flimsy, Cheap,Cheap,Cheap

Used this a few times, had the screen pop off while processing blackberries - just 2 quarts of blackberries, not bushels of them. That was a huge mess, blackberry juice all over the table and floor. I bought this Victorio to replace an Oxo food mill, because the Oxo takes forever when doing a large job, and the screen lets small seeds thru, but the Oxo would have been much faster on blackberries than the Victorio.

Tried on raw ripe San Marzano tomatoes, but I found the handle difficult to turn, so I cooked the tomatoes first. They go thru easily once cooked, but there's leaking at the handle, and also where the screen attaches to the body. I wrapped a towel around the base and this contained much of it, but it was still a mess. When I got towards the end of my pot of 25lbs of tomatoes, the screen popped off, just like it did on the berries, and I had a hot mess all over the table and floor, as well as a nice burn on my hand.

This thing is boxed up and ready to be returned. I'm going to try the Squeezo; the screen attaches to the body with 2 wing nuts, which seems like a much better design.

Everything is acceptable except for the grape spiral that comes with it. The plastic gets so hot it melts and you get bits of plastic in the food. If they would just make a metal on, or make the plastic in a better shape to prevent too much friction, I'd give it a better rating.

I bought this as the old one I have did not have the ability to have a motor for the handle. However on receiving this item I was very dissapointed with the construction compared to my old one. I am 80 and could NOT put the strainer part on by myself. My old one has screw on tabs that you just put in place and tighten. This one also was not made as well and I just returned all the things that I bought for it, the motor, strainer and new accessory kit. Sorry but old is better and I'll just have to crank it round and round.

Washer on shaft clip keeps flying off. Spring pops through crank/shaft hole in back of body. No way to re-assemble while in use. Juice pours out of crank/shaft hole and thru gasket between body and screen. An absolute mess to use with juices squirting out in many places it shouldn't. Design concept makes sense, but this product is poorly contructed with inferior quality components.

Big and clumsy to use.

looks good. very poor performance. Not tension adjustment. Should have bought OXO.

I'm genuinely baffled by the good reviews for this, as it is absolutely USELESS. After the food mill used by my grandmother and mother broke, a replacement was needed in order to make sauce the proper way. I liked the positive reviews and the versatility this product offered.Unfortunately, as it does not work for the primary reason it was purchased, this is a complete waste of money. For starters, the blade does not have enough of an opening to grab tomatoes (or anything else large) to press them into the disc. Once you get aggravated enough to hand crush the tomatoes to give them a chance, the seeds begin seeping out through the sides of the disc. A dollar store strainer would be more effective, as you have to do 10x the work, and get a quarter of the result with this food mill. Spend your money on a solid construction version.

Was extremely disappointed after using this product for making applesauce. There is a space at the bottom of the mill where the disk sits and it allow the apple peels to just work there way through during the milling.

If I could give this a negative star I would.A complete waste of time and product--utterly useless as tomatoes were simply pushed round and round without being milled.I will ask for a full refund!

A waste of money when it comes to canning tomatoes. You work yourself to death and waste too much for such little reward.