Or as an oversize garlic press to crush several cloves all at once, or to process steamed veggies for homemade baby food. The Fresh Force is slightly heavier than the other ricers, but it's easy to use and makes excellent purées.

If you are concerned about the gears having moving parts that will eventually wear out then don't worry. All in all a very high quality kitchen gadget that apart from being the most efficient ricer on the market is really made to last years and just oozes class! The helix design means the plunger slips into the barrel and, with the gentlest twist of the handles, it pushes the puree through the bottom. For people who have grip issues, this might be a preferable choice, but overall, the mechanism was far less efficient than the conventional design.The OXO Good Grips is one of the smaller ricers on the test, so we could only use a small handful of vegetable chunks at a time. With a ricer, the ingredient is added to a chamber, and the hinge is closed to feed the ingredient through the pressing plate.

With that in mind, we took 6 different potato ricers to the task, and found one that we think is most worth the space in might take up. Banish lumps and make perfect mashed potatoes without hand cramps, using the FreshForce Potato Ricer.

Bellemain's potato ricer comes with three interchangeable disc options that make it easy to grate up various foods, including baby food, dense root vegetables, and fruit purées. Epicurious may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The larger gauge ideal for people who like their mashed potatoes to be a lil chunky, while the medium gage works well for a gnocchi dough or for pouring batter through for spaetzle. Annoyingly, the ricer tends to come apart as it is only slotted together, a design fault that for some reason, has never changed. People who’ve committed the cardinal sin of mashing potatoes with a hand mixer will be especially familiar with what happens when you over-beat potatoes: Restraint is key, and a potato ricer delivers.

Though the ricer is small in size, the pressing plate holes are large enough to create light, fluffy purées – even fibrous parsnip was smooth. In fact, it is 65% more efficient than conventional potato pressers / ricers, so put down the masher and pick up the FreshForce potato ricer. It wasn’t an awkward motion or hard to keep a grip on, either, even though I’m notorious for having the worst hand strength in the world. The notch at the end made it possible to anchor the ricer against the mixing bowl, and the stainless steel body was heavy duty enough to crush its contents even when overfilled.The Chef'n FreshForce™ Potato Ricer creates the perfect mash for cottage pie, colcannon, potato croquettes, mashed potatoes and many more dishes.