OXOGood Grips Food Mill

OXO are now producing an interesting array of kitchen products along with those little brown stock cubes wrapped up in foil delight. I bought a great pair of OXO kitchen scissors - robust and lifetime sharp. So I felt confident - sight unseen - in buying this food mill. To be honest I did not know I needed it until a recent soup recipe advised on passing the mash through a food mill - I had been tossing the soup into a blender - and this was really too aggressive and spoiled delicate soup flavours. The inner section is stainless steel as are the cutters and a spiral that forces the food through the cutters. The outside body is robust plastic and feels tough for the job. There are three legs that fold out - this lets you use the mill over a bowl or saucepan. Once set up the whole device is firm and easy to use - it just needs a back and forth technique to make sure solids are captured by the spiral and forced through the cutter. Two of the cutters are very fine I am not sure what I'll use those for yet but the larger cutter makes a nice job of grating down cooked vegetables in your soup - my first try was duck soup Moroccan style - the missus loved it with lentiles verte. Using the mill retained great flavours and was a lot easier to clean than a blender.

I bought this to help with removing pips from Tayberries and Blackberries when making jams. I used to to push the briefly cooked fruit through a sieve using a wooden spoon to remove the pips (which we find annoying when they get between your teeth!) - using this OXO food mill is so much easier and quicker. More of the fruit can be sieved at a time and it takes less effort to do so. Turning the handle backwards regularly (say a couple of turns backwards for every dozen or so forwards) helps mix up the fruit and ensures a better sieving action. The pulp pushed through was very nearly pip free (I used the middle sieve) and what was left in the OXO food mill was fairly dry. Assembling and cleaning up after use is easy. All in all a successful addition to my kitchen tool cupboard.

I make a lot of preserves from my garden produce and this has made life so much easier. Before I bought this, to make a puree I would spend ages pushing fruit through a sieve, not great for painful wrists and hands. This is fantastic. What one took a good half an hour or more to sieve a large bowl of fruit pulp now is done easily in 5 - 10 minutes and the ease of it is the best thing. No more aching wrists and cramped hands. Before purchasing, I asked for recommendations in an online preserving group, this one came up tops, a number of people had nothing but good things to say about it. There are other cheaper food mills but, if this is something that you are going to use a lot I definitely recommend this one. It's very robust and the quality is second to none

Cost around £15 which is a lot for a masher but this is a Rolls-Royce job. The wire business end is incredibly strong, I'm not sure what they mean by "45lb". I've not used it on spuds yet but it's very good for breaking down stewed apples, also soup when I don't want it fine blended. So easy to clean too.

Bought this to break up mince for bolognese and does the job excellent very strong and sturdy wel pleased

My favourite masher

Got this out of the back of the cupboard and thought I’d give it another chance.Originally bought to replace my mother’s old Mouli-legumes which has fallen to my sister.Absolutely no comparison. There is a huge gap between the blade and the disc, so nothing is pushed through. You just go Round and round, backwards and forwards using a spoon to push a bit of food under the blade. You just end up with a compressed layer of food over the disc and only a little goes through.Time for the bin

This is wonderful. I used this type of mouli grater at cordon bleu school, and they were a good type. This one though, is better, because of the 3 arms, which can then fit most bowls, also rubberised so don't slip or make a noise. Then the arm that turns is neatly clipped in . It's extremely strong, and pushes all the juices through. Easy to take apart and clean either by hand or in the dishwasher.