: a kitchen utensil in which soft foods are pressed through a perforated container to produce strings
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Use a food mill or ricer to break down the potatoes over the butter.
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Stacey Ballis, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
Pass the potatoes through a ricer or food mill and over the butter in bowl.
—Shelli McConnell, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
Two other options are the potato ricer and the food mill.
—Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 13 Nov. 2023
And among those, the biggest partisan gaps were in ricers (a jumbo garlic press for smooshing spuds), chopsticks, mandolin slicers and manual juicers — all of which were more popular among Democrats and Biden voters.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
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Stacey Ballis, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
Pass the potatoes through a ricer or food mill and over the butter in bowl.
—Shelli McConnell, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Oct. 2024
Two other options are the potato ricer and the food mill.
—Carly Westerfield, Bon Appétit, 13 Nov. 2023
And among those, the biggest partisan gaps were in ricers (a jumbo garlic press for smooshing spuds), chopsticks, mandolin slicers and manual juicers — all of which were more popular among Democrats and Biden voters.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
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“Ricer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ricer. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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ricer
noun
ric·er
ˈrī-sər 
: a kitchen utensil in which soft foods (as boiled potatoes) are pressed through a strainer
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