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Default Food mill -- need recommendations

Anny Middon wrote:
> "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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>>Anny, I think you can get your raspberry pretty seedless with a "berry
>>screen" for the tomato press -- if your tomato press is like mine -- a
>>hopper feeder. Small holes. Or else a fine/small-holed chinoise. I
>>don't think a "regular" (whatever that is) food mill will do it. You'll
>>want pretty small holes.
>>--
>>-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ

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> I don't think I can get any other screens for my tomato press -- I have a
> fairly inexpensive one I got on Ebay a few years ago, and the screen is not
> removeable. I know the holes in the screen are too large to filter out
> raspberry seeds.
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> The chinoise is a good idea, but it's too labor-intensive. I liked the idea
> of an attachment for my KitchenAid that could do the job for me so I could
> avoid almost all the work, but the one they make apparently won't handle
> raspberry seeds.
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> BTW -- if I process the raspberries to make them seedless, will the spread
> made from the seedless puree still be technically called a jam?
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> Anny
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Sure, I for instance hardly ever put the pits in my peach or apriot jam.
Ellen