With the Food mill you can pass fruits and vegetables. This means that trays and kernels are removed by pressing and rubbing and held in a sieve, resulting in a juice or slurry suitable for jellies and fine sauces. The most famous, already very old and manual Food mill is the „fleet Lotte“, which is operated with a hand crank. This turns the passing wing over the bottom of the screen.

Building a Food mill

Modern pass mills are made of stainless steel and can be disassembled for easy cleaning. Basic is the Food mill on funnelwith friction disc, which represents the sieve bottom, and a passing wing. The fruit or vegetables comes into the funnel, the passing wing turns it against the friction disc, the passages are gently pressed through the sieve. The funnel shape causes the ingredients to slip. In some models, a scraper below ensures that the purée of Sieveis completely removed. The Food mill sits on a stable pot rest, the passport falls into a bowl. Its consistency can be determined by exchangeable perforated discs whose sieves are of different fineness. For jelly, for example, it must be a very fine sieve, potato soup or applesauce succeed with a coarser sieve.

The pass mill in action

Good pass mills like the Lotte fleet are all-rounders in the kitchen. Fresh fruit porridge succeeds as well as delicious soups, nutritious baby porridge, aromatic chutneys or delicious purees. Tomatoes are also excellent for this. Hearty vegetable ideas succeed with celery, asparagus or leeks, the consistency is creamy, the vegetables arrive on the plate without threads. Potato soups, airy mashed potatoes and creamy tomato soup, a dessert with passed apples, rosehip or currant jam, currant juice and redcurrant jelly can be prepared with little effort. Jellies, fruit jam or marmalade are prepared by local chefs with the passing mill of apples, rose hips, blackberries, raspberries, quinces and redcurrants. Even the leftovers can be processed excellently. If the pulp gets stuck at the bottom of the mortar during the production of rosehip jam, it can become aromatic rosehip syrup.

Purchase criteria for a pass mill

The material should be of high quality, dishwasher-proof and unbreakable, because in a pass mill, relatively large forces prevail. This concerns the strainer, but also the twist grip and the wiper. Stainless steel is nowadays the standard material that does not rust in the dishwasher. The size of a pass mill depends on the need. Anyone who regularly prepares soups for his entire family and also passes them by in stock needs a mill with a large diameter. The standard size is 20 cm, so a pass mill is, among other things wonderful for Babybrei. The handling must be comfortable. A passing device should be easy to operate and be placed safely on a bowl. An excellent pass mill is easy to turn and does not catch. The disassembly and assembly for cleaning must succeed well, also are in good equipment with several perforated discs in order to happen in different strengths. The finest perforated disc with a diameter of one millimeter is suitable for sauces and fruit jelly. The medium-fine 3 mm disc is used for pumpkin or potato soup and for purees. Spaetzles can also be made with a 7- to 8-mm perforated disc.

The cleaning and care of a pass mill

Good pass mills come disassembled in the dishwasher, Ideally, they are made of stainless steel, the handles do without rubber. Nursing also includes the use of the correct perforated disc for the appropriate material to pass through and proper filling so that the forces can be adequately worked. In this way, the cutting edges of the perforated discs remain sharp. The manufacturers point out in the instructions for use the correct handling of a mortising mill.

Well-known manufacturer of pass mills

The original is the GEFU fleet Lotte, they have been around since 1950. The manufacturer GEFU also sells cheese slicer, Garlic presses and pepper mills. A fleet of Lotte from GEFU is priced in the middle segment. WMF also has good pass mills, as well as GSD, Küchenprofi, Lacor, Metaltex, Leifheit, Rösle, Westmark and Moulinex.