: a kitchen utensil in which soft foods are pressed through a perforated container to produce strings
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Cook the pumpkin until tender and puree it through your potato ricer before incorporating it into a pie filling mixture or batter.
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Molly Allen, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
Press hot potato flesh through a ricer or food mill into a large bowl.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2025
Push the potatoes through a ricer into a mixing bowl and add the heavy cream and duck fat.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
Place a ricer or food mill over another pot and pass the potatoes through it.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2024
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Molly Allen, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
Press hot potato flesh through a ricer or food mill into a large bowl.
—Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2025
Push the potatoes through a ricer into a mixing bowl and add the heavy cream and duck fat.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
Place a ricer or food mill over another pot and pass the potatoes through it.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 24 Oct. 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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