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

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 am so impressed with this machine.. easy to assemble..easy to clean... easy to use and the green bowl is all the waste from 2 bowl fulls of tomatoes. It makes sause..salsa..and will do berries .I made 8 cups of really great tasting sauce straight from my garden .should also add came fast ty.

It worked well with Roma, Field and San Marzano tomatoes. I was doing batches of 60-80 pounds at a time. It handled the loads without any issues. I elevated the Tomato Strainer by a couple of inches(my 2 inch thick wooden cutting board) and that extra incline made the processing work so much better. It wasn't necessary to pre peel the tomatoes. For Home Canning, this is a good budget machine that can do the work.

This machine is awesome! I’ve read several reviews where they said that it was a disaster for them do not buy so on and so forth. The only thing I can say is is when you work with tomatoes or fruits that have a lot of juice in them and you’re wanting to can and prep and all that stuff you have to expect some sort of mess. Do you think a system is going to be just totally clean and, not make any kind of a mess at all is ridiculous. No machine does I don’t care how many hundreds of dollars or thousands of dollars you pay for it and they’re out there too that are that expensive. For 100 bucks This unit gets five stars out of five stars. I highly recommend a person buys this if they’re going to be doing a large amount of seed separating or grinding on fruits and vegetables. It’s inexpensive and efficient. I did 8 gallons of tomatoes that I had previously frozen because I wanted to do one big batch and I was done in about 25 to 30 minutes. There’s always gonna be cleanup no matter what you use. So when it comes to the naysayers personally, I would just disregard them because for the money this thing works absolutely fabulous. It would’ve taken me over three hours to grind out by hand what I did in 25 to 30 minutes With this machine with virtually no effort.

I've had several different types of these devices and all of them either didn't do a great job or broke. This one, after one use and doing about 4 gallons of tomatoes, did a great job. Have to go slow enough for it to keep up so it could use a little more motor, but it completed the task with only one run through the machine. You have to put it on something as it sets very low on the counter and needs to be elevated to get any sizable container to hold both the scrap and the finished product. Clean up wasn't very difficult either. Easily comes apart and is dishwasher safe.