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Food Mill Definition - What is a Food Mill? - Cuisipro Deluxe Food Mill

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Definition: A food mill is a device used for grinding or puréeing foods such as soups, sauces, mashed potatoes (or duchesse potatoes) or other puréed items.

A food mill (compare prices) is typically a manually powered device with a hand crank. Shaped like a large inverted cone with a perforated disk at the bottom, a food mill has the characteristic of straining the food while puréeing it.

A food mill usually comes with interchangable perforated disks of different sizes for achieving finer or coarser purées.

See Also: Potato Ricer

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