I am a ? generation Irish woman and I have been canning since I was 10 with my mom. However, I have always cooked my tomatoes first. And I have been using my kitchen aid for a couple of years and it has made it so much easier then my folly food mill.
Thank you for doing this video. I use to do every thing by hand. 2 years ago I used a tic tac machine that I borrowed. This year I was looking for something to simplify the work. You just convinced me :)
Awesome video. Have a garden and have been using a blender to "blend" all the tomatoes with seeds (skins removed by boiling first). Last years was REALLY bitter so this year decided to do on line research. Bought hand mill ($50.00) but rethought so took it back. Bought entire assembly for Kitchen Aid ($80.00) from Amazon. Awesome investment! With this video and the right tool both made short work of my tomatoes. I set it up right next to my kitchen sink. Used pitcher to collect sauce and waste went right in sink ready to be disposed down disposal. Thank you for making the video was VERY useful for this non Italian!
Simple and efficient way of preparing healthy natural product without preservatives. I enjoyed watching it. Greetings from Europe, where we use kitchenaid too.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I wanted to make applesauce and couldn't find anything to help me use the grinder/strainer. I also hand-cranked last year. It was a lot of work. I was looking forward to using the kitchenaid to make things easier and faster, but I didn't know what happened to the waste. Again, I thank you!
Just placed an order for the KA attachment for my machine. With inflation the way it is...and only going to get worse... I will be doing a lot of home canning and preservation this summer to help get through these hard times ahead. I'm planning on doubling the size of my garden this year.
Great video! I'm glad you like the attachment. This was my first year making sauce and I borrowed my friend's hand crank machine. I already have a Kitchen Aid with the grinder so I may invest in another attachment.
Thanks. Good video. We've been using a Squeezo for a a long time. We just bought a KitchenAid mixer for the first time and I got the attachment which is very similar to the Squeezo mechanism (except plastic). We typically do 20-30 quarts of sauce per canning season.
Nice. I am still using the old fashioned squeeze-o type crank machine. I checked out your video because I wanted to see the Kitchenaid attachment in action. I already have the Kitchenaid. I'm definitely going to upgrade to the Kitchenaid. Just a note, though, to you and to all the other people reading these comments, cook the tomatoes first AND let them get good and ripe (dark red, firm but not soft). The flavor will be better. Ciao!
I know this is old but you are the ONLY one who has shown coring the tomatoes first which is consistent with what I have seen on many other videos of Italians preparing sauce using standalone motorized juicers (which this one clearly copied) -- We were debating it and I still think we will be coring before feeding into the hopper.--
The attachments for this are a little confusing since the food strainer uses part of another attachment (the meat grinder) The large tray at the top is another attachment, but you don't need it because the grinder has a smaller one. The meat grinder attachment is $35 right now on Amazon, and that's a real deal! The food grinder attachment for the meat grinder is $40. A lot, yes, but trying to do a big job like this is slow going doing it manually. Worth it if you puree a lot of food, not if you don't. BTW, the grinder also has a sausage attachment.
Thanks so much for this video. I was searching to decide if I should get the Roma strainer but since I already have a K mixer, thought this would be better.
Our nursery mixed up their seeds, so I just used whatever was ripe. There was a mix of cherry, yellow, beef steak, and jet stars. I did have to reduce the sauce for hours, but it came out great. Romas are best, but you can use what you have.
Thank you! Your demo showed me EXACTLY what I was looking for. I bought this a couple of years ago, when I opened it just now there were no directions. I'm canning apple butter & basically needed to do what you're doing with tomatoes but with cooked apples :)
Thanks for the demo. I'm not an Italian, or an Italian American, but I have a kitchen aid mixer. I'm done buying overpriced, crappy tomato sauce. I'm done blanching too! BTW, you can season the pulp with oregano, mix in some sesame seed. Put it in a food dehydrator. Make an awesome snack.
YesI usually cook out the water to thicken it up and have it ready for sauce but I've since learned to strain it out with cheesecloth. It's much faster so you do wind up with a thicker sauce, meatier.
I wanted to make our own sauce this year because we planted TONS of Romas in our garden, and its our first time. I found your video very helpful. We have a kitchenaid mixer already, and previously bought the food grinder for making our own meats. I wanted to can our tomato sauce, but never canned before. Can you give any pointers on how to go about canning our sauce? Thank you so much for the video :) it was very informative.
Thank Mate! My wife bought one, gave me the chore and I wasn't sure what the end product should look like. Note the instruction say turn it to 4. I thought that was bit slow and it did gum up a bit. Great demo and thanks!
Did you have any problems with juice backing into the mixer, through the attachment area on the front of the mixer and coming out under the base of the mixer?
I needed to double check amounts of yield (lbs to prepped to puree) so I did tomatoes all different ways today to confirm what I needed to adjust the recipes. After having used the KA strainer yesterday to do them raw as mikejay demo'd, it was sheer torture to do just the one 5 lb batch the old blanch, peel and sieve way. Thought I would NEVER get done with that batch. I still do cooked tomatoes with the colander and sieve but not Roma types/sauce. YAAAY KA and strainer.
I've made tomato sauce from handed down recipe. We cook tomatoes first then put them in sieve to get out the water then run them through the strainer. it gives you a less watery sauce.
Great video. Good info. I have a question though.... So I priced the actual food mill for the kitchen aid mixer and it was like ridiculously expencive. Your set up uses their meat grinder attachment, feeding tray, and a strainer? Is that correct? Where did u purchase all of your attachemnts? Thanks sir!
The meat grinder is different. This is the vegetable strainer attachment. I used to have the Squeezo, for about 25 years. The last few years I hooked up my electric drill instead of the handle. Worked for a few years before I had ruined the machine. But I was so sick of turning the crank for hours and hours....
THIs is ALL news to me. I have eaten jar sauce and i currently buy whole canned tomatoes to make a tomato sauce with...what is the benefit of doing all this work? DOes it vary greatly in taste? Texture? Is the finished cooked product called Pastene? Great video thanks for opening my eyes here!!
Canned tomatoes are very acidic and will cause the BPA lining to break down with time. So yea, pay 3 bucks for a huge can of tomatoes at Costco, but in the end you'll be consuming lots of BPA... yum yum.
You used the watery part! Maybe I should have watched ur video first!!! I had a recipe I followed from online that had you use the "meat" of the tomato and remove as much of the water as possible...needless to say, it didnt turn out!
I don't know where you get this idea that Italians only use Roma tomatoes. That is not true. I'm a 1st-generation Italian and I prefer San Marzano tomatoes. Roma tomatoes are certainly acceptable if you cannot get San Marzanos. Your method is wasteful. I just did a 50-pound bushel of San Marzano tomatoes and got 18 quarts and 3 pints.I did use the old-fashioned crank method. I'm close to 80. If I can do it....oh well. I usually grow my own but this year we decided to buy a bushel of San Marzano tomatoes at our local Italian produce store here in metro Detroit. Yes, your method is easier but again....wasteful.
It is a cultural term. First generation means the children are the first of WHATEVER nationality their parents are to be born in the United States. If these children become parents someday, their children with be second generation, and so on. I cant believe it was that difficult to understand. I assume you are attempting at humor or breaking the man's chops, but in all seriousness, his grammatical error did not lessen the meaning and pride of his statement. I am in a "mid" category myself, can't truly be called second generation for the following reason. Mom was first generation Italian American, ( the left out word which caused you to write your statement I assume). My dad however, was born in Italy and did not come to this country until age 5 (with his mother),,, his father ( my grandfather) had to come to America first, learn English, get a job and home before bringing his family here.. TRY telling an immigrant that today!!! Hence, my dad and his mom had to become citizens of this great country. MY mother being born here is considered a natural citizen. So I guess I am a 1.5 generation, as I cant get full credit on dad's side. Oh and to further reply to your original question, either you're Italian or you're not, what if the person was not full blooded...ie: Irish Italian, Polish Italian, German Italian. One parent from each ethnicity doesn't remove you from the claim to be either ethnicity, you are both. Ultimately, you are now an AMERICAN and should be proud to say so. That doesn't mean you should neglect, ignore,belittle, disavow, your ethnic heritage. Hope this cleared things up for you,
likethepear As I mentioned in the first reply, Italian American being the cause of you writing this response; I agree it is an error in his phrasing. 3rd generation of an Italian family unit would have been more logical as well. his grandparents, parents, and now him being of full blooded heritage would indeed make the third generation of an Italian heritage. Now if he married ANY other ethnicity, his children can no longer make the same claim. They are now the first generation of an Italian and "XXXXXX" nationality. So at face value he is indeed misspoken if intending to be of Italian American generation, but if he is speaking of being full blooded then he is correct. Maybe you should write him and make him correct his video.
I am a ? generation Irish woman and I have been canning since I was 10 with my mom. However, I have always cooked my tomatoes first. And I have been using my kitchen aid for a couple of years and it has made it so much easier then my folly food mill.
You had me at Pastene. :D Growing up in a Boston Italian family, if it wasn't from the gahden, it was Pastene. Thanks for this!!
Thank you for doing this video. I use to do every thing by hand. 2 years ago I used a tic tac machine that I borrowed. This year I was looking for something to simplify the work. You just convinced me :)
Awesome video. Have a garden and have been using a blender to "blend" all the tomatoes with seeds (skins removed by boiling first). Last years was REALLY bitter so this year decided to do on line research. Bought hand mill ($50.00) but rethought so took it back. Bought entire assembly for Kitchen Aid ($80.00) from Amazon. Awesome investment! With this video and the right tool both made short work of my tomatoes. I set it up right next to my kitchen sink. Used pitcher to collect sauce and waste went right in sink ready to be disposed down disposal. Thank you for making the video was VERY useful for this non Italian!
Your video is more informative, more useful, and instructive than any of the others on the topic. Huge thanks for taking the time to share.
Simple and efficient way of preparing healthy natural product without preservatives. I enjoyed watching it. Greetings from Europe, where we use kitchenaid too.
This is a really good video and your energy is great. I can tell you're a genuinely good person. Thanks for this.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I wanted to make applesauce and couldn't find anything to help me use the grinder/strainer. I also hand-cranked last year. It was a lot of work. I was looking forward to using the kitchenaid to make things easier and faster, but I didn't know what happened to the waste. Again, I thank you!
Thanks so much for taking the effort to make this - I really appreciate it.
Just placed an order for the KA attachment for my machine. With inflation the way it is...and only going to get worse... I will be doing a lot of home canning and preservation this summer to help get through these hard times ahead. I'm planning on doubling the size of my garden this year.
I love that 'Go' part at the beginning :) Nice vid thanks!
Great video! I'm glad you like the attachment. This was my first year making sauce and I borrowed my friend's hand crank machine. I already have a Kitchen Aid with the grinder so I may invest in another attachment.
Thank you! Why kitchenaide couldn't make a useful video for this product, I don't know. But thanks for taking the time do it.
Can you list what attachments they are. Thanks.
Thanks. Good video. We've been using a Squeezo for a a long time. We just bought a KitchenAid mixer for the first time and I got the attachment which is very similar to the Squeezo mechanism (except plastic). We typically do 20-30 quarts of sauce per canning season.
Do you peel them? I've had my mixer for 30 years and have not done anything but mix. I've got the attachments to do just this and more.
Nice. I am still using the old fashioned squeeze-o type crank machine. I checked out your video because I wanted to see the Kitchenaid attachment in action. I already have the Kitchenaid. I'm definitely going to upgrade to the Kitchenaid. Just a note, though, to you and to all the other people reading these comments, cook the tomatoes first AND let them get good and ripe (dark red, firm but not soft). The flavor will be better. Ciao!
Would you be able to list all the accesories needed foe this please?
I know this is old but you are the ONLY one who has shown coring the tomatoes first which is consistent with what I have seen on many other videos of Italians preparing sauce using standalone motorized juicers (which this one clearly copied) --
We were debating it and I still think we will be coring before feeding into the hopper.--
Thank you. Someone told my friend to get the food mill attachment instead of hand cranking her own. Luckily I already have the grinder attachment.
Do you water bath the filled jars afterward?
So if you wouldnt mind, what are the attachments that you bought for your setup so I can go and get them too?
The attachments for this are a little confusing since the food strainer uses part of another attachment (the meat grinder) The large tray at the top is another attachment, but you don't need it because the grinder has a smaller one.
The meat grinder attachment is $35 right now on Amazon, and that's a real deal! The food grinder attachment for the meat grinder is $40. A lot, yes, but trying to do a big job like this is slow going doing it manually. Worth it if you puree a lot of food, not if you don't.
BTW, the grinder also has a sausage attachment.
Thanks so much for this video. I was searching to decide if I should get the Roma strainer but since I already have a K mixer, thought this would be better.
This is helpful, thanks for putting it up.
Our nursery mixed up their seeds, so I just used whatever was ripe. There was a mix of cherry, yellow, beef steak, and jet stars. I did have to reduce the sauce for hours, but it came out great. Romas are best, but you can use what you have.
Thank you! Your demo showed me EXACTLY what I was looking for. I bought this a couple of years ago, when I opened it just now there were no directions. I'm canning apple butter & basically needed to do what you're doing with tomatoes but with cooked apples :)
Janis Morris What the h***'s
Thanks for the demo. I'm not an Italian, or an Italian American, but I have a kitchen aid mixer. I'm done buying overpriced, crappy tomato sauce. I'm done blanching too! BTW, you can season the pulp with oregano, mix in some sesame seed. Put it in a food dehydrator. Make an awesome snack.
Skin and everything? (I'm assuming when you say pulp you mean the waste from the strainer)... what an interesting idea.
YesI usually cook out the water to thicken it up and have it ready for sauce but I've since learned to strain it out with cheesecloth. It's much faster so you do wind up with a thicker sauce, meatier.
I wanted to make our own sauce this year because we planted TONS of Romas in our garden, and its our first time. I found your video very helpful. We have a kitchenaid mixer already, and previously bought the food grinder for making our own meats. I wanted to can our tomato sauce, but never canned before. Can you give any pointers on how to go about canning our sauce? Thank you so much for the video :) it was very informative.
Hey Mike, can you add the links for the strainer for your strainer
Excellent video, thank you
Thank Mate! My wife bought one, gave me the chore and I wasn't sure what the end product should look like. Note the instruction say turn it to 4. I thought that was bit slow and it did gum up a bit. Great demo and thanks!
very good video
Did you have any problems with juice backing into the mixer, through the attachment area on the front of the mixer and coming out under the base of the mixer?
I do this, too and I would love to know how you expanded the size of your hopper?
I needed to double check amounts of yield (lbs to prepped to puree) so I did tomatoes all different ways today to confirm what I needed to adjust the recipes. After having used the KA strainer yesterday to do them raw as mikejay demo'd, it was sheer torture to do just the one 5 lb batch the old blanch, peel and sieve way. Thought I would NEVER get done with that batch. I still do cooked tomatoes with the colander and sieve but not Roma types/sauce. YAAAY KA and strainer.
Good job
Hi mikejay68,
I was wondering how many pounds of tomatoes do you need to actually produce a jar of sauce, once it's done cooking?
I've made tomato sauce from handed down recipe. We cook tomatoes first then put them in sieve to get out the water then run them through the strainer. it gives you a less watery sauce.
Thank you for this!
Thanks for this video. Does your end product resemble passata? Like the Pomi boxed strained tomatoes or the San Marzano puree in a can?
ok here it is 2021 and the exact same parts are available but now they cost $40 instead of $20. Gosh!
Great video. Good info. I have a question though.... So I priced the actual food mill for the kitchen aid mixer and it was like ridiculously expencive. Your set up uses their meat grinder attachment, feeding tray, and a strainer? Is that correct? Where did u purchase all of your attachemnts? Thanks sir!
The meat grinder is different. This is the vegetable strainer attachment. I used to have the Squeezo, for about 25 years. The last few years I hooked up my electric drill instead of the handle. Worked for a few years before I had ruined the machine. But I was so sick of turning the crank for hours and hours....
Oh okay. I have been hand cranking...and cranking....and cranking. Just thought i could maybe try something a little easier.
Thanks for responding. I appreciate it. 😊
So no need to peel?
Right. No peeling, no blanching, the machine does it for you. (Yay!)
Victorio's strainer is about $111.00 with motor and $55.00 without motor and it works twice as good as the Kitchenaid.
Booger Face I’ve read the reviews and there’s a lot of leaking. Also the plastic shaved off of the red spiral thing.
great, great video gerbil. i'm going to go make my own sauce now, or i'll just be over for some of yours that sounds better
Great video.
You can get an electric one
Try cooking first then put through the attachment. You might get more sauce.
THIs is ALL news to me. I have eaten jar sauce and i currently buy whole canned tomatoes to make a tomato sauce with...what is the benefit of doing all this work? DOes it vary greatly in taste? Texture? Is the finished cooked product called Pastene?
Great video thanks for opening my eyes here!!
Grow it, make. It. I know where it comes form!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUE!!!
Canned tomatoes are very acidic and will cause the BPA lining to break down with time. So yea, pay 3 bucks for a huge can of tomatoes at Costco, but in the end you'll be consuming lots of BPA... yum yum.
Get the hand crank tomato squeezer and remove the handle and replace with a drill ! My families secret that works better than the 800 tomato mills.
Qualifications?
"I'm a 3rd generation Italian".
Eh goomba. U gotta use San marzano tomatoes. The plumb tomatoes with the pointy end. NOT Roma tomatoes.
You used the watery part! Maybe I should have watched ur video first!!! I had a recipe I followed from online that had you use the "meat" of the tomato and remove as much of the water as possible...needless to say, it didnt turn out!
These attachments really don't look very elegant. A right mess, in fact.
I don't know where you get this idea that Italians only use Roma tomatoes. That is not true. I'm a 1st-generation Italian and I prefer San Marzano tomatoes. Roma tomatoes are certainly acceptable if you cannot get San Marzanos.
Your method is wasteful. I just did a 50-pound bushel of San Marzano tomatoes and got 18 quarts and 3 pints.I did use the old-fashioned crank method. I'm close to 80. If I can do it....oh well.
I usually grow my own but this year we decided to buy a bushel of San Marzano tomatoes at our local Italian produce store here in metro Detroit. Yes, your method is easier but again....wasteful.
Sam Spade PI how is it wasteful? I’m trying to decide between this attachment and the Roma strainer.
Thanks for making this video. I’m in awe that you’re making tomato sauce and wearing a clean, white shirt. 😳
Need to shorten talk time
How is someone a third generation Italian? You're either Italian or you're not.
It is a cultural term. First generation means the children are the first of WHATEVER nationality their parents are to be born in the United States. If these children become parents someday, their children with be second generation, and so on. I cant believe it was that difficult to understand. I assume you are attempting at humor or breaking the man's chops, but in all seriousness, his grammatical error did not lessen the meaning and pride of his statement.
I am in a "mid" category myself, can't truly be called second generation for the following reason. Mom was first generation Italian American, ( the left out word which caused you to write your statement I assume).
My dad however, was born in Italy and did not come to this country until age 5 (with his mother),,, his father ( my grandfather) had to come to America first, learn English, get a job and home before bringing his family here.. TRY telling an immigrant that today!!!
Hence, my dad and his mom had to become citizens of this great country. MY mother being born here is considered a natural citizen. So I guess I am a 1.5 generation, as I cant get full credit on dad's side.
Oh and to further reply to your original question, either you're Italian or you're not,
what if the person was not full blooded...ie: Irish Italian, Polish Italian, German Italian. One parent from each ethnicity doesn't remove you from the claim to be either ethnicity, you are both. Ultimately, you are now an AMERICAN and should be proud to say so. That doesn't mean you should neglect, ignore,belittle, disavow, your
ethnic heritage.
Hope this cleared things up for you,
yah yah, all of that would make sense if he had said Italian-American. But he didn't. So my question still stands. Thanks for playing!
likethepear As I mentioned in the first reply, Italian American being the cause of you writing this response; I agree it is an error in his phrasing. 3rd generation of an Italian family unit would have been more logical as well. his grandparents, parents, and now him being of full blooded heritage would indeed make the third generation of an Italian heritage. Now if he married ANY other ethnicity, his children can no longer make the same claim. They are now the first generation of an Italian and "XXXXXX" nationality.
So at face value he is indeed misspoken if intending to be of Italian American generation, but if he is speaking of being full blooded then he is correct. Maybe you should write him and make him correct his video.
retart cook the tomatoes first what kinda italian are you?