Product Description

Prepare fresh apple or tomato sauce, baby food, freezer jams and chutneys. Includes the required Food Grinder. Fits KitchenAid stand mixers Both strainer and grinder attach to all KitchenAid household stand mixers Prepare fruit and vegetable sauces, chutneys, and jams Grind meats, dried fruits, vegetables, cheese, and bread crumbs Strainer and grinder assemble easily without tools 4 inches long

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3966 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: KitchenAid
• Model: FVSGA
• Dimensions: 13.00" h x 9.50" w x 4.00" l, 3.70 pounds

Features

• Both strainer and grinder attach to all KitchenAid household stand mixers
• Prepare fruit and vegetable sauces, chutneys, and jams
• Grind meats, dried fruits, vegetables, cheese, and bread crumbs
• Strainer and grinder assemble easily without tools
• 4 inches long

Amazon.com Review
These two accessories, which may be used with all KitchenAid household stand mixers, turn many tough kitchen chores into walks in the park. The strainer, for example, converts cooked apples and pears into sauces for preserving or immediate consumption. Freezer jams are a snap; so is fresh tomato sauce. Baby foods can be made in quantity and frozen. The grinder is equally versatile--think chuck or turkey for fresh hamburgers; Parmesan for pasta or cheddar for quesadillas; peppers, onions, and tomatoes for salsa; apples for chunky sauce. The grinder has two plates, coarse and fine, the latter of which converts stale bread into crumbs in a jiffy. Both strainer and grinder assemble and disassemble quickly and easily without tools, and most parts are dishwasher-safe. --Fred Brack

Customer Reviews

Best applesauce maker since the tree
This gizmo makes the shortest work of making applesauce you ever imagined. You slice the apples, cook in a large pan with a small amount of water until they are soft. Then you push the apple mush, skins, seeds, core, stems, etc. in the top of the food grinder, and out the sieve part comes pure applesauce, out the end, comes the seeds, skin and stem. It takes maybe 10 minutes to process a 16qt pot of cooked apples.

I usually get every burner on my stove going, heat the pots of apples, process the mush into sauce, then can the lot. The canning part takes the longest.

Anyway if you can apple sauce, you need this tool.

Works well, but...
The tray on the top of the unit it very small. Yoy can only put about 1/2 cup at a time in it. I know they make an attachment you can buy for like $25-30 to give yourself a larger tray. But it should just be designed larger. We usually make about 15-20 quarts of Applesauce at a time. the larger tray is a must. The "pusher" to move food down the throat is a bad design. Should be a solid cylindar instead of a cross shape. Tends to catch food and is messy.

The end result of using it is good, but it's over priced, and could be designed a little better.

A must for the home canner
We used this to make applesause. in a word, Awesome. It turned 5 pounds of apples into applesause in five minutes.