'Juicers' tend to give you juice, rather than pulp (ie purée)?
Good description, Moonbells! I'm still hooked on the thing doing the work for me. But I'm listening!
Well I just had a play. Reduced another pile of toms to four jamjars of passata, which got boiled for 20 mins so I hope are nice and sterile now.
First pass squashes the tomatoes and gets out mostly juice and some pulp.
Second pass gets out a lot of pulp. The smaller seeds do escape through - if you're very fussy about seeds them you can put the resultant passata through a sieve manually, but it's a *lot* easier to do than pushing the unsquashed pulp and rather defeats the object (unless you're doing cherries: see below!).
It was dead easy to do. Handle turns easily and is fun to do. I think it's even safe for small fingers thanks to the popping paddles.
I pulped some of all three types of tomato that I grew - sungella (orange), Cream Sausage (pale yellow plum passata tomato) and cherries (mix of gartenperle and tumbler). A lot of the cherry tom seeds went through. Some Sungellas did but the winner was of course the tom bred for passata - less by volume initially than the sungella but still out pulped it easily as it has fewer, larger seeds.
Bottled the yellow and orange passata. The red is in the fridge for tomorrow's lunch :)
And it was easy to take to bits and clean. Even the spindle for the spring bit popped open for washing.
moonbells
