SC - Re: SC mashing favas (food mill styles)

[Olwen the Odd]

I'm confused.  If all you folks can't figure out how to make non-lumpy beans 
with all these modern appliances, then don't you think that mashing them 
with a potato masher type thing that they probably did back when left the 
things lumpy anyway??
Olwen

>OK, I see the confusion.  I went looking for pictures of
>food mills and found the sort you used.  I'd never seen
>food mills with blades, so I thought you meant the sort of
>Mouli that has the circular grating blade that rotates
>within a handle and a little compartment to hold stuff
>against the blade (couldn't find a picture of that,
>though).  No wonder your description of the process sounded
>odd!
>
>The food mill I grew up with doesn't have blades (at least
>in the sense of something that could become too blunt),
>it's a pot with holes in the bottom and a rotating
>"squisher" -- a piece of metal shaped a bit like a fan
>blade, that pushes the food through if you turn the handle
>one way, and scrapes the clogging stuff up to free the
>holes if you turn it the other way.
>
>There's a photo of one toward the bottom of the page at
>http://www.thewhitewhale.com/gadget5.htm, you can kind of
>see the squisher if you look carefully.
>
>Does the Mouli type have a squisher or does it just grind
>stuff between the blades or something?  I can't quite
>figure out how it functions from the pictures I found.
>(photo of this kind at
>http://bridgekitchenware.com/cgi-bin/scodb.cgi/s=bridge&uid=11351&a=s&p=469,
>if we're on the same page now)
>
>Dana/Ximena
>
>
>--- Michael Gunter <countgunthar at hotmail.com> wrote (on
>Gwynydd's behalf):
>
> > >Perhaps a food mill would work?  That's what my mom
> > always
> > >used for split peas.  Or are favas too hard for that?
> >
> > What I used is, I believe, a food mill - Mouli is a brand
> > name (shame on me!
> > *smile).
> >
> > I had to use the coarser blade because the finer one has
> > become too blunt to
> > really do any good to anything.  As well, the skins of
> > the favas are fairly
> > resistant to going through the blades, which meant that
> > the works clogged up
> > fairly quickly.
>...
>
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