On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:26:27 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:49:19 -0400, Ross@home wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:53:36 -0700, sf > wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 19:12:02 -0700, "Kent" >
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> You need a tomato strainer. http://www.shopping.com/tomato-strainer/products
>> >> It'll change your life experience with tomatoes.
>> >
>> >Tomato strainer? Isn't that a misnomer? It looks like a tomato
>> >grinder to me. If it strained, it would separate something like the
>> >seeds from the rest of the tomato. How does that strainer earn the
>> >name?
>>
>> Simple. It earns its name by separating both seeds and skins from the
>> rest of the tomato.
>>
>So the seed and skin is held in the part with the holes? I don't see
>any other place for it. How often does the strainer have to be taken
>apart to be cleaned when processing a big batch of tomatoes? Every
>few quarts, gallons, bushels?

No. The part with the holes is a tapered strainer (screen). A spiral
tapered auger pushes the tomatoes through, forcing the juice and pulp
through the screen and down the chute into a container. The skins and
seeds are ejected out the small end.
We've used a Victorio Strainer (now Norpro) for over thirty years. I
added a small gearhead motor to ours and I couldn't begin to count the
number of bushels of tomatoes that have gone through to be consumed as
juice or later transformed into sauce.
Disassemble and clean the unit when finished.
Pretty well a must for anyone preserving large amounts of tomatoes.
We also have the screens and spirals for berries, grapes and pumpkin
but they've hardly ever been used.

Ross.