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With the big push on eating healthier, food mills are quickly regaining popularity.  Food mills were food processors before anyone ever thought of the term.  They give you the ability to mash and puree food and create very unique flavors.  When food processors hit the market, food mills were kind of pushed off to the side, but people are quickly realizing that sometimes advances in technology are always not for the best.

The problem with a food processor is that it moves at such a high speed, the food literally gets obliterated and for certain items, the integrity of the flavor of the food is lost.  For certain food items, like sauces and gravies, it is better to slowly mash them down and allow the true flavor to gradually escape and be captured in the dish.  That is hardly an option when you have a piece of machinery that is flying around at 100 miles an hour.

Now that food mills are back in style, the question is whether or not the electric food mills are the same thing as a food processor.  It is kind of a tricky question as you are really going to have to look at the electric food mill and make sure that it really is what it is saying that it is.  If it is truly a food mill, the only difference would be that you don’t have to hand crank the machine in order to puree the food.

However, having said that, there are plenty of people that will tell you that using an electric food mill defeats the purpose of using the food mill in the first place.  This device actually creates a lot more interaction with the food in that you have to be present and are monitoring the progress of the grinding our pureeing at all times.  For some purists, there is nothing like it.

The reason is that electric food mills promote the ability to turn on the food mill and walk away and let the device handle the work.  You can hardly do that when you have a manual device and are only done when you see that the product is to your liking.  Again, this is a matter of preference, but it also kind of the point in using a food mill in the first place.

If you want to rediscover the flavor of foods, there is nothing like using an old Mouli Food Mill.  Now here is a piece of equipment that is reasonably priced and made in Italy that you will not only find in homes, but in many Italian Restaurants as well.  You have not truly had tomato sauce until you have made it this way.

Is the electric food mill better than the standard one?  It is a tough call, but if you talk to any cook who uses one, they will probably scoff if you tell them you want a food mill but are going to get an electric one so you don’t have to hand puree everything.  Sometimes it is better to do a little hard work and truly appreciate the final product than it is to leave it up to technology to do all of your dirty work.

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With all of today’s modern conveniences, sometimes it is nice to get back to basics.  One such area that lends itself to this is the kitchen.  Somewhere along the line people have forgotten what it is like to actually get in the kitchen and make a meal from scratch.  This means actually getting your hands a little dirty and not using the pre-packaged meals from Trader Joe’s and stuffing them in the oven, but using appliances like a stainless steel food mill to prepare and cook items.

It can be argued that some of the modern appliances have made life easier for everyone to cook, but at the same time the actual artistry of making a great dinner has been lost.  While just about anyone can now make a very good meal for the family to eat, the truly great meals come from old fashioned preparation.  Take something as simple as mashed potatoes and you will soon realize what we are talking about.

It is pretty common today for people to make up their potatoes and then throw them into a mixing bowl and blend them to death before they put them out on the table.  Who wants pureed potatoes?  This is not true mashed potatoes, yet people everywhere are putting this horrible mix out on the table and portraying it as something that it is not.

No, mashed potato purists everywhere need to stand up and insist that mashed potatoes need to be mashed, not blended.  How you do this is with a good old fashioned food mill.  After you boil your potatoes, you can blend them with your mix of spices, cream and butter into the food mill to create true ecstasy for the potato lover deep inside of us all.  They will be smashed down and run through the food mill, but there will still be just a hint of a piece of potato here and there to remind you that you are indeed easting potatoes and not soup for dinner.

Truth be told, blended mashed potatoes just don’t hold a candle to mashed potatoes that are made like this.  When they are blended down like that, they simply lose some of what makes mashed potatoes taste so good.  The same can be said for many other products where blending or a food processor is just overkill.  There are times to puree food and then there are times to use a food mill.

If you are a purist, you can use one of the many hand food mills that are on the market.  If you insist on having some of the convenience of modern technology, there are also some very nice electric food mills that you can purchase that will give the same result without the physical exertion that a true food mill may require.

Every now and then you have to look at modern technology and laugh.  Sometimes newer and faster is not better.  In cooking, this is usually the case as nothing beats good old fashioned hearty food.  You can hardly make that in a blender!

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