Canning tomato sauce and looking into a food mill. recommendations?

[lakota]

I am looking into a food mill for canning tomato sauce and salsa this year. I made some pasta sauce last year and we loved it but what a pain in the behind it was to peel and seed all of those tomatoes. I have been looking around and watching youtube and the one that catches my eye is the Roma food mill. It looks slick the way the skins and seeds fall out the side and I can run the waste through again to get as much product out as possible before the spoils get tossed into the compost bin. It looks like it has good reviews but there are a few poor ones that complain about breakages.
What is your favorite type for canning?

[charles p]

Big red heirlooms.

[Old Syko]

For years we used a colander and pestle that is much older than I am.  Few years ago picked up a plastic and stainless hand crank cheap food mill for under $10 that is much faster and does a great job for juice, sauce and the like.  For my salsa, everything has to be hand cut.      Last year I put up over 100 quarts of sauce and nearly as much salsa.


Very ripe romas make the best sauces and a mix of beefsteak and your favorite super sweet yellow tomato make the best salsa or picante.

[lakota]

I bought one. Its a Norpro I think. I bought all of the extra screens to go with it too. I like my salsa spicy and a little watery so I am looking forward to trying it. The unit is pretty slick. We put 10 pounds of strawberries through it the day we got it to make fruit leathers in the dehydrator

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[Ranger99]

still use my old stone molcajete that
my route man gave me 20 + - years ago.


may have to look into a "modern" food mill though. . .
already harvested 40+ tomatoes with a lot more
still growing 

[lakota]

I cant wait until I get some tomatoes to try. The manual says to just quarter them and feed them through. It is supposed to seperate the seeds and skin and they fall out through the open end of the screen into a bowl. I was processing tomatoes by hand last year and I got tired of it really quick. The way it went through those strawberries it should make short work of tomatoes too.