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Food mill

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

nounCommon term

In culinary arts & cooking, food mill means: A hand-operated tool that pushes cooked food through a perforated disc.

In Turkish: sebze değirmeni

How it is used

Used for purées and sauces; discs may provide different degrees of fineness.

Example sentences

  1. Turn the food mill to purée the cooked tomatoes.

    The turning mechanism forces food through the disc.

  2. We changed the food mill disc for a finer apple purée.

    The disc determines the texture of the processed food.

Common collocations

  • food mill disc
  • pass through a food mill
  • prepShort for preparation: the work of getting food ready before cooking or service, such as washing, peeling, cutting, portioning and making sauces. Also used as a verb.
  • ingredientOne of the foods or other items, such as flour, oil or salt, that are combined to make a particular dish.

More terms: Kitchen Equipment

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