Comments on: The amazing strainer! 18 qt of apple sauce from a bushel in 2 hours http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer/ Your online simplicity village Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:37:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: lisa-hopes http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 lisa-hopes Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:37:36 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer-18-q-of-apple-sauce-from-a-bushel-in-2-hours/#comment-1396 I just finished canning 4 bushels of applesauce with this mill. Positives: WAY faster than my Foley! Saved me hours and that alone made it well worth it regardless of the negatives below. Also, very little waste...I cook my apples with the skin minus the seeds. Negatives: the white plastic "shoot" did leak until I readjusted up a little higher and the leaking stopped. The suction cup comes loose about every 3 minutes on our formica counter and the clamp is poorly designed. It didn't fit over the edge of the formica so we couldn't use it. It may work on a table wher it would have more space to grab onto but I didn't try it. On a side note, the left over cooked skins were finely chopped in a processer, frozen in 2 cup batches and used to make applesauce cake. I just finished canning 4 bushels of applesauce with this mill.

Positives: WAY faster than my Foley! Saved me hours and that alone made it well worth it regardless of the negatives below. Also, very little waste…I cook my apples with the skin minus the seeds.

Negatives: the white plastic “shoot” did leak until I readjusted up a little higher and the leaking stopped. The suction cup comes loose about every 3 minutes on our formica counter and the clamp is poorly designed. It didn’t fit over the edge of the formica so we couldn’t use it. It may work on a table wher it would have more space to grab onto but I didn’t try it.

On a side note, the left over cooked skins were finely chopped in a processer, frozen in 2 cup batches and used to make applesauce cake.

]]> By: cpthegreat http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer/comment-page-1/#comment-146 cpthegreat Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:30:01 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer-18-q-of-apple-sauce-from-a-bushel-in-2-hours/#comment-146 I have the "old fashioned" mill and I love it. It IS hard work, but I've tried the Foley Mill and didn't like it at all - got rid of it and went back to the funnel shaped one. With our yellos apples (old tree) we needed no sugar. With our red ones (we think they are Connell Red) I use just a tiny bit of sugar. I have so much applesauce it's going to take a billion years to use all of it! I have the “old fashioned” mill and I love it. It IS hard work, but I’ve tried the Foley Mill and didn’t like it at all – got rid of it and went back to the funnel shaped one. With our yellos apples (old tree) we needed no sugar. With our red ones (we think they are Connell Red) I use just a tiny bit of sugar. I have so much applesauce it’s going to take a billion years to use all of it!

]]> By: Galen Lehman http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Galen Lehman Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:34:21 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer-18-q-of-apple-sauce-from-a-bushel-in-2-hours/#comment-142 Sarah N - It looks like you had a great experience with your grandma, but the way you did it is definitely not for the faint of heart! When I wrote my post, I thought about talking about your mill as well, but instead settled for mentioning the Foley mill, which is the next step down from Lehman's Best Food Mill. The mill you used is by far the most primitive of the three. Sarah N – It looks like you had a great experience with your grandma, but the way you did it is definitely not for the faint of heart! When I wrote my post, I thought about talking about your mill as well, but instead settled for mentioning the Foley mill, which is the next step down from Lehman’s Best Food Mill. The mill you used is by far the most primitive of the three.

]]> By: Sarah N http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Sarah N Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:42:12 +0000 http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/31/the-amazing-strainer-18-q-of-apple-sauce-from-a-bushel-in-2-hours/#comment-141 Wow, 2 hours pretty much trumps my applesauce-making experience (see <a href="http://countrylife.lehmans.com/2007/10/09/a-saucy-afternoon/" rel="nofollow">MY last post</a> :). It took Grandma and me more than twice as long to do a bushel of apples. But on the positive side, I think my arms got a little bit of a workout with the <a href="http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=3993&itemType=PRODUCT&iProductID=3993" rel="nofollow">even more old-fashioned mill</a> we used. Wow, 2 hours pretty much trumps my applesauce-making experience (see MY last post :) . It took Grandma and me more than twice as long to do a bushel of apples. But on the positive side, I think my arms got a little bit of a workout with the even more old-fashioned mill we used.

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