How to Use a Food Mill

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Easy and Fast instructions for How to Use a Food Mill

Prep Time1

Cook Time0

processing10

Total Time11

Course: juice

Cuisine: American

Keyword: how to use a food mill

Servings: servings

Calories: 23kcal

Cost: $5

Place the watermelon chunks into a large bowl. Use the potato masher to mash the watermelon into small pieces.
Pour the contents of the large bowl into the bowl of the assembled food mill using the large hole seive.
Turn the handle of the food mill in a clockwise direction until the pieces of watermelon are captured under the flat portion of the mill. Then turn counter clockwise for several turns. Turn in clockwise direction again. Repeat until no more juice can be extracted from the watermelon.
Turn the handle counterclockwise until the blade is cleaned off. Use a rubber spatula and turn the food mill upside down to remove and scrape the bits from the bottom of the mill. Discard those pieces.
Replace the sieve in the bottom of the mill with the proper smaller hole sieve (very small holes for juice, medium holes for jam). Repeat step 3.
Pour the juice into a proper container for your purposes and utilize the resulting juice.

Remember that large pieces of food won't work in a food mill, so you have to mash up what you have before it can go through the food mill effectively. A potato masher works great for this task.
The best think about processing foods though the mill is that you do not have to worry about seeds and skins because removing those is what it does best!
When buying a food mill, easy clean surfaces are essential.
Do NOT put the pulp from the food mill down the drain. It will clog. Ask me how I know? I have 50ft of new kitchen drain to prove it.