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product_id: 2568171
title: "VKP250"
brand: "kitchen crop"
price: "R$1708"
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reviews_count: 8
category: "Kitchen Crop"
url: https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/2568171-vkp250
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# Smooth hand crank with optional electric motor Heavy-duty cast aluminum body & clamp 1.3mm precision stainless steel screen VKP250

**Brand:** kitchen crop
**Price:** R$1708
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🍅 Crush your kitchen goals with the ultimate sauce maker—because homemade never looked this effortless!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** VKP250 by kitchen crop
- **How much does it cost?** R$1708 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.br](https://www.desertcart.com.br/products/2568171-vkp250)

## Best For

- kitchen crop enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted kitchen crop brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Precision Straining:** 1.3mm stainless steel screen removes skins & seeds for silky smooth sauces.
- • **Rock-Solid Stability:** Clamp mounts securely to counters ¾"–2⅛" thick—no wobble, no mess.
- • **Built to Last & Backed:** Durable cast aluminum frame with BPA-free parts and a 5-year warranty for peace of mind.
- • **Effortless Pureeing Power:** Hand crank or upgrade to electric for seamless sauce-making flow.
- • **Versatile Culinary Creativity:** Perfect for sauces, jams, baby food, soups, and more—expand with optional screens.

## Overview

The Johnny Apple Sauce Maker Model 250 is a premium clamp-based food strainer designed to effortlessly separate skins and seeds from fruits and vegetables. Featuring a durable cast aluminum body, a precision 1.3mm stainless steel screen, and a smooth hand crank with an optional electric motor upgrade, it streamlines making sauces, purees, jams, and baby foods. Its secure clamp fits countertops ¾" to 2⅛" thick, ensuring stability during use. BPA-free components and a 5-year warranty guarantee long-lasting performance and safety. Expand your culinary possibilities with optional accessory screens and motor for ultimate versatility.

## Description

Make all the great sauces, purees, juices and jams you love without painstaking peeling or coring. Quickly separates fruit and vegetable puree from unwanted skins, stems and seeds. Dont forget to add the 4-piece accessory kit (sold separately) to make your VKP food strainer even more versatile. For any cook who wants to take the hassle out of homemade products like jams, purees and sauces, the VKP Food Strainer is the perfect solution. Simplify tasks like making apple or tomato sauce. Put the fruits or vegetables in the hopper, turn the handle, and let the Strainer do the work for you. The stainless steel screen effortlessly separates the skins and seeds from the fresh pulp. Now, with our extra screen sizes and electric motor, the versatility is endless (extra screens and motor sold separately). Time consuming recipes are simplified when you use this Food Strainer. Take pleasure in home food preservation and buy yours today.

Review: Wow!!! So much better than the Norpro I've been using for 2 years... - There are lots of reviews on this, mostly positive. This is going to be more of a product comparison than a review... After using the Norpro version (which sucks) for 2 years I finally broke down and bought this one... wow... I wanted to write a review last week before I even used it because it screams "BETTER QUALITY" right out of the box. Now that I've used it I'm going to do a product comparison. Overall: This thing is a breeze compared to the Norpro. The crank turns effortlessly, the tomatoes feed easily, and most of all, it's MUCH easier to clean. The components are MUCH better built than the Norpro, you can tell Victoria knows what they are doing and they do it right; Norpro seems to just want to make terrible copies of other products to make a quick buck... Base: -Lets start at the bottom; the clamp. The Norpro routinely comes loose from the table and wobbles, the Victorio doesn't. Last night I processed 15 gallons of tomatoes into 8 gallons of sauce and didn't have to mess with the Victorio clamp a single time. The Norpro clamp is just a small screw with a "foot" on it, the Victoria has a well-made screw with a large "foot" for squeezing. The Victorio "foot" slides on the cast aluminum base so that it doesn't wobble around. The "feet" that contact the top of the table are also much better designed. Not only are they larger than the Norpro, they also have proper gussets so they don't flex/bend/break as easily; this means more stability. -Height: I didn't measure my Norpro but judging by the size of bowl that fits under the waste chute the Victorio sits higher. Dealing with the waste on the Norpro was a continuous hassle. Dealing with the waste on the Victorio was a "set it and forget it" type affair; I set up a bowl and didn't have to touch it until I was done making sauce. -Axle Hub: Due to poor design on the Norpro the axle "floats" in a bronze bushing, as the auger pushes back and forth the axle moves with it. Combine that with a crappy chrome-plating job on the axle and you get a scratched up bronze bushing. A scratched up bronze bushing means you get a cut-up o-ring, and a cut o-ring means you get a continuous flow of juice out the axle. The Victorio is MUCH better designed. The auger floats on the axle and the axle is stationary in a nylon bushing. This means the o-ring doesn't get cut up (it still leaked a little bit, but not nearly as much as the Norpro). The stationary axle in nylon bushing is MUCH more robust, you can feel it... Auger/Screen: -The auger and screen are also much better designed. With the Norpro the auger's taper matches that of the screen, which means not only is it much harder to feed the tomatoes through because they are being compressed instantly in the first inch or so of the auger, it's also possible to "lock" the auger into the screen. If that happens you must disassemble and pound it out. The Victorio auger has less taper than the screen which means the tomatoes are progressively compressed and it's much harder to "lock" the auger up. This was all very evident when actually using the sauce maker. The crank turned MUCH easier than the Norpro and I think a LOT of it had to do with the more efficient auger/screen design. -The auger itself has a cool feature that the Norpro doesn't; it has notches cut into the first few spirals to help macerate and grab the tomatoes and pull them into the auger. This helps a LOT. With the Norpro I HAD to cube my tomatoes so they would feed easily and so they wouldn't explode and spray juice back out. With the Victorio you can leave your smaller tomatoes whole and the "notches" will rip them open and pull them into the auger. -The screen... WOW!!! First of all it's stainless (vs. the chromed steel of the Norpro), but that's not the feature I'm impressed with. The Victorio screen is designed to be cleaned MUCH easier than the Norpro. The Norpro screen has a rolled & flattened seam which means you get 4 layers of screen material on the seam and the inner layers get packed full of pulp that is impossible to clean out. The Victorio is an over-lapped and seam-welded screen which means there are only 2 layers of screen material (MUCH easier to clean out). The mounting flange is also much better. The area where the screen is attached to the flange on the Norpro lends itself to getting jammed full of pulp that is, once again, difficult to clean. The same area on the Victorio is much smoother/flatter and no pulp gets locked in behind the screen. -Waste shield: the Norpro doesn't even have this. The Victorio does. The Norpro would always have issues with waste (seeds/skin) falling off and landing on the sauce shield/chute (it would get in the sauce if you didn't catch it soon enough. Not only that but you could only fit a small bowl under the end so it had to be continuously dumped/moved so it wouldn't overflow. The waste chute on the Victorio made life a breeze; combined with a slight taller base and the waste chute I was able to fit a large bowl under the end and I didn't have to deal with the waste until I was completely done. -Sauce chute: it looks the same, but it's not. The Norpro sauce chute is fixed position; you can't change the angle at which it lies. The Victorio can be rotated as far as you like. This proved beneficial because I sauce directly into a 5-gallon bucket. Also, due to the higher efficieny auger I found that sauce frequently wanted to spray out of the screen when I was first getting started (before the holes started to fill up with fibrous bits). I just turned the sauce-chute straight down which kept the sauce from spraying everywhere... Other bits: -Hopper: Not a lot to say about this, the design is roughly the same as the Norpro, the only difference is that the Norpro hopper is cheap and flimsy, the Victorio is not flimsy. -Plunger: Not much difference except the Victorio is slightly more robust. -Crank: The Norpro crank has a nut that holds it on, the Victorio doesn't. This sounds like a point for the Norpro but it's not. I didn't have any problems with the crank on the Victorio, it slides into the axle and that's that. The nut on the Norpro was always working loose which would make the handle loose and wobbly... All in all I'm impressed. I feel like this sauce maker is an excellent buy. It's not only cheaper (desertcart price for Victorio vs. local price for Norpro), it's better quality, better design, and will save you time. Don't waste your money on the Norpro junk, just get the real thing from the start.
Review: Game Changer for Tomato Season! - I first saw this strainer on Instagram and instantly had to check it out. After reading reviews here, I decided to buy it—and I’m so glad I did. Our family just harvested 91 pounds of tomatoes (yes, 91!) and needed a fast, efficient way to process them. This Johnny Apple Sauce/Tomato Sauce Maker turned all those tomatoes into nearly 13 gallons of beautiful puree and juice in just a few hours. We already have spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove, and the best part? Almost zero skins and very few seeds in the finished product. A few tips from my experience: Don’t push too hard with the plunger. If you plunge aggressively, seeds can sneak through a little gap. Gentle, steady pressure works best. The unit sits a bit low, so a large roasting pan worked better than a mixing bowl for catching the puree. I do wish it was a little taller to accommodate bigger bowls. Those are very minor trade-offs compared to the time and effort this saves. My old strainer is already in the donate pile because this one is such an upgrade. If you process tomatoes (or other produce) at home, this tool is worth every penny!

## Features

- NOT JUST FOR APPLE SAUCE AND TOMATO SAUCE: Great for purees, pie fillings, juices, jams, cream soups, baby foods, sauces, and more. Use it for a variety of fruits and vegetables. Easily separate skins and seeds from your produce as you create your own specialty sauces and purees.
- HAND CRANK WITH OPTIONAL ELECTRIC MOTOR: Designed for hand crank use with its long easy to use handle, or replace the handle with the optional electric motor to make your creations even easier (VKPMOTOR sold separately).
- EVERYTHING YOU NEED: Comes with Apple/Tomato Screen (1.3mm holes), Standard Spiral (6-3/4” long), and Instruction Manual, allowing you to make fine delicious sauces right out of the box. Optional additional screens for salsa, pumpkin, and berries with a grape spiral are also available (VKP250-5 accessories sold separately).
- SUPERIOR DURABILITY AND 5 YEAR WARRANTY: Sturdy cast aluminum body and easy-to-install stainless steel screens. Plastic components are BPA free. Your strainer also comes with an incredible 5 Year Warranty.
- SECURE CLAMP MOUNT: Sturdy clamp design has 10 square inches of clamping surface. Can mount to countertops from 3/4" to 2-1/8" thick providing a proper foundation while you create your own specialty sauces.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B001I7FP54 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #56,315 in Kitchen & Dining ( See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining ) #241 in Food Strainers |
| Brand Name | KITCHEN CROP |
| Color | White, Red, Silver |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (4,020) |
| EU Spare Part Availability Duration | 5 Years |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00811957010154 |
| Included Components | EMW6698880 |
| Item Dimensions L x W x H | 14.25"L x 7.6"W x 9"H |
| Item Type Name | Food Strainer |
| Item Weight | 4.3 Pounds |
| Manufacturer | VKP Brands |
| Manufacturer Part Number | VKP250 |
| Manufacturer Warranty Description | 1-Year warranty from date of purchase |
| Material Type | Aluminum, Plastic, Stainelss Steel |
| Model Number | VKP250 |
| Power Source | Manual (with optional Electric) |
| Recommended Uses For Product | Seed Removal, Skin Removal |
| Specific Uses For Product | Grinding |
| UPC | 811957010154 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 Count |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** KITCHEN CROP
- **Color:** White, Red, Silver
- **Item Weight:** 4.3 Pounds
- **Material:** Aluminum, Plastic, Stainelss Steel
- **Recommended Uses For Product:** Seed Removal, Skin Removal

## Images

![VKP250 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51QK1y6szgL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: How is this different from a juicer??**
A: It keeps the pulp just gets rid of the skins and seeds, as in partially cooked apples for applesauce and tomatoes for pasta sauce. A juicer literally keeps the juice and gets rid of all the fibres skin and seeds!

**Q: I want to use it for apple sauce.  Will the pulp be too fiberous for this strainer?  How much of it do you lose with the skins and seeds?**
A: I have only used it for my tomato sauce.  And if it makes apple sauce as good as my tomato sauce, then I would purchase this.  I was amazed on how it knew to strain the skins and seeds.  I love this appliance!

**Q: Does this applesauce maker leak around the gaskets/strainer part?  I have an old one that leaks a LOT and makes a big mess underneath.  Thanks!**
A: Mine is new and does not leak where the strainer is attached to the main unit.  It has a 'rubber' (could be soft plastic...I don't know) ring which serves as a gasket where the strainer is attached to the main unit.  I believe the 'rubber' ring is absolutely important, as if it was not there, applesauce would likely squish out there.

**Q: how many quarts does it hold?**
A: The feed hopper will hold a decent amount.
But your holding solids. Not sure how many quarts you would get from a hopper full.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow!!! So much better than the Norpro I've been using for 2 years...
*by S***R on August 13, 2015*

There are lots of reviews on this, mostly positive. This is going to be more of a product comparison than a review... After using the Norpro version (which sucks) for 2 years I finally broke down and bought this one... wow... I wanted to write a review last week before I even used it because it screams "BETTER QUALITY" right out of the box. Now that I've used it I'm going to do a product comparison. Overall: This thing is a breeze compared to the Norpro. The crank turns effortlessly, the tomatoes feed easily, and most of all, it's MUCH easier to clean. The components are MUCH better built than the Norpro, you can tell Victoria knows what they are doing and they do it right; Norpro seems to just want to make terrible copies of other products to make a quick buck... Base: -Lets start at the bottom; the clamp. The Norpro routinely comes loose from the table and wobbles, the Victorio doesn't. Last night I processed 15 gallons of tomatoes into 8 gallons of sauce and didn't have to mess with the Victorio clamp a single time. The Norpro clamp is just a small screw with a "foot" on it, the Victoria has a well-made screw with a large "foot" for squeezing. The Victorio "foot" slides on the cast aluminum base so that it doesn't wobble around. The "feet" that contact the top of the table are also much better designed. Not only are they larger than the Norpro, they also have proper gussets so they don't flex/bend/break as easily; this means more stability. -Height: I didn't measure my Norpro but judging by the size of bowl that fits under the waste chute the Victorio sits higher. Dealing with the waste on the Norpro was a continuous hassle. Dealing with the waste on the Victorio was a "set it and forget it" type affair; I set up a bowl and didn't have to touch it until I was done making sauce. -Axle Hub: Due to poor design on the Norpro the axle "floats" in a bronze bushing, as the auger pushes back and forth the axle moves with it. Combine that with a crappy chrome-plating job on the axle and you get a scratched up bronze bushing. A scratched up bronze bushing means you get a cut-up o-ring, and a cut o-ring means you get a continuous flow of juice out the axle. The Victorio is MUCH better designed. The auger floats on the axle and the axle is stationary in a nylon bushing. This means the o-ring doesn't get cut up (it still leaked a little bit, but not nearly as much as the Norpro). The stationary axle in nylon bushing is MUCH more robust, you can feel it... Auger/Screen: -The auger and screen are also much better designed. With the Norpro the auger's taper matches that of the screen, which means not only is it much harder to feed the tomatoes through because they are being compressed instantly in the first inch or so of the auger, it's also possible to "lock" the auger into the screen. If that happens you must disassemble and pound it out. The Victorio auger has less taper than the screen which means the tomatoes are progressively compressed and it's much harder to "lock" the auger up. This was all very evident when actually using the sauce maker. The crank turned MUCH easier than the Norpro and I think a LOT of it had to do with the more efficient auger/screen design. -The auger itself has a cool feature that the Norpro doesn't; it has notches cut into the first few spirals to help macerate and grab the tomatoes and pull them into the auger. This helps a LOT. With the Norpro I HAD to cube my tomatoes so they would feed easily and so they wouldn't explode and spray juice back out. With the Victorio you can leave your smaller tomatoes whole and the "notches" will rip them open and pull them into the auger. -The screen... WOW!!! First of all it's stainless (vs. the chromed steel of the Norpro), but that's not the feature I'm impressed with. The Victorio screen is designed to be cleaned MUCH easier than the Norpro. The Norpro screen has a rolled & flattened seam which means you get 4 layers of screen material on the seam and the inner layers get packed full of pulp that is impossible to clean out. The Victorio is an over-lapped and seam-welded screen which means there are only 2 layers of screen material (MUCH easier to clean out). The mounting flange is also much better. The area where the screen is attached to the flange on the Norpro lends itself to getting jammed full of pulp that is, once again, difficult to clean. The same area on the Victorio is much smoother/flatter and no pulp gets locked in behind the screen. -Waste shield: the Norpro doesn't even have this. The Victorio does. The Norpro would always have issues with waste (seeds/skin) falling off and landing on the sauce shield/chute (it would get in the sauce if you didn't catch it soon enough. Not only that but you could only fit a small bowl under the end so it had to be continuously dumped/moved so it wouldn't overflow. The waste chute on the Victorio made life a breeze; combined with a slight taller base and the waste chute I was able to fit a large bowl under the end and I didn't have to deal with the waste until I was completely done. -Sauce chute: it looks the same, but it's not. The Norpro sauce chute is fixed position; you can't change the angle at which it lies. The Victorio can be rotated as far as you like. This proved beneficial because I sauce directly into a 5-gallon bucket. Also, due to the higher efficieny auger I found that sauce frequently wanted to spray out of the screen when I was first getting started (before the holes started to fill up with fibrous bits). I just turned the sauce-chute straight down which kept the sauce from spraying everywhere... Other bits: -Hopper: Not a lot to say about this, the design is roughly the same as the Norpro, the only difference is that the Norpro hopper is cheap and flimsy, the Victorio is not flimsy. -Plunger: Not much difference except the Victorio is slightly more robust. -Crank: The Norpro crank has a nut that holds it on, the Victorio doesn't. This sounds like a point for the Norpro but it's not. I didn't have any problems with the crank on the Victorio, it slides into the axle and that's that. The nut on the Norpro was always working loose which would make the handle loose and wobbly... All in all I'm impressed. I feel like this sauce maker is an excellent buy. It's not only cheaper (amazon price for Victorio vs. local price for Norpro), it's better quality, better design, and will save you time. Don't waste your money on the Norpro junk, just get the real thing from the start.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Game Changer for Tomato Season!
*by N***4 on September 15, 2025*

I first saw this strainer on Instagram and instantly had to check it out. After reading reviews here, I decided to buy it—and I’m so glad I did. Our family just harvested 91 pounds of tomatoes (yes, 91!) and needed a fast, efficient way to process them. This Johnny Apple Sauce/Tomato Sauce Maker turned all those tomatoes into nearly 13 gallons of beautiful puree and juice in just a few hours. We already have spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove, and the best part? Almost zero skins and very few seeds in the finished product. A few tips from my experience: Don’t push too hard with the plunger. If you plunge aggressively, seeds can sneak through a little gap. Gentle, steady pressure works best. The unit sits a bit low, so a large roasting pan worked better than a mixing bowl for catching the puree. I do wish it was a little taller to accommodate bigger bowls. Those are very minor trade-offs compared to the time and effort this saves. My old strainer is already in the donate pile because this one is such an upgrade. If you process tomatoes (or other produce) at home, this tool is worth every penny!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works as intended.
*by D***A on December 5, 2022*

I've looked at many of the other food mills and ended up purchasing this one for a reason. Most of the other food mills I've read reviews on all had similar issues - grease in the food, metal in the food, shoddy design, too difficult to operate, too difficult to clean, etc. This product, while not perfect, was a particularly good compromise on all fronts. There are no parts that contain grease that will come into contact with your food, there are no metal parts that grind together that will come into contact with your food, ease of operation is dependent upon what you are milling, and cleanup also depends on what is being milled. We typically use it to make tomato paste for lasagna or ratatouille, and while it may not be the cleanest and most efficient tool out there, it doesn't have the drawbacks that the others seem to have. To clarify, after grinding the tomatoes, you will have to scrape the strainer screen with a spatula, and you will also have to remove and empty the inside of it as it accumulates quite a bit of the seeds and skins inside. You also must be careful when disassembling it when done, as there will be quite a lot of liquid and leftover paste inside that will leak out if you're not careful. Again, these are small negatives compared to the other products that contaminate your food with metal shavings or manufacturing grease. As for cleanup - with tomatoes, it is quite easy. A rinse, with a quick wipe down using a soapy brush, followed by another rinse, and then drying with a towel before storage - takes minutes. About the only thing you need to be wary of is turning the crank with nothing inside the mill, which they warn you about in the instructions. As long as you follow the instructions, this mill should last you quite a long time.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Johnny Apple Sauce Maker, Tomato Sauce Maker, Remove Skins & Seeds From Produce, Model 250 Clamp Based Food Strainer (Basic Strainer)
- VKP250 Strainer Accessory
- 1 X Finest By Victorio Kitchen Products Victorio Food Strainer Screen Gasket

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