Sometimes I look at kitchen equipment with a jaundiced eye.
Too many times I have bought something that I thought would be useful, and it
turned out to be a frivolous piece of junk.
This tomato puree machine is the exception.
Don’t really know what it’s called. Bought
mine in a thrift store (of course) for just a few bucks. It was manufactured in
Italy
and it’s purpose is to puree tomatoes.
I
did find modern machines on line in various outlets.
Apple Sauce The Easy Way
I had been given a box of crab apples. They were kind of
warped and twisted and not many had a proper shape. Most of them were about the size of a large
plum. I felt it wasn’t worth the effort to peel and core them. So I quartered
them and simmered them until they were just tender. Then I ran them through the
tomato puree machine.
This is a hand crank machine that looks rather like a meat
grinder with a long funnel on the front.
The funnel part is composed of a spiral core that sends the food through
the machine. It is covered with a fine meshed sieve. The edible pulp is pressed through the sieve.
To my delight and surprise, the puree came out of the sieve
in the main part of the machine. The
peelings, cores, seeds, and stems came out the end of the machine.
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