🛠️ Invention or technique

Food mill

Pasapurés

Date
1928 · confidence high
Place
Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Credited to
Victor Simon
Field
Tools

What it is

Kitchen utensil consisting of a bowl, a perforated plate and a crank-driven blade that mashes and strains soft foods in one step, invented by Victor Simon in Brussels.

What it led to

  • home preparation of purées and sauces
  • modern hand-operated kitchen utensils
  • precursor to electric blenders
  • standardization of puréed baby food

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