--- product_id: 442283289 title: "VKPMOTOR" brand: "kitchen crop" price: "VT34628" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Kitchen Crop" url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/442283289-vkpmotor store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Dual manual & electric operation for ultimate versatility 10 sq. in. clamp surface for rock-solid mounting Cast aluminum body for superior durability VKPMOTOR **Brand:** kitchen crop **Price:** VT34628 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > ⚡ Revolutionize your kitchen grind—effortless power meets precision! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** VKPMOTOR by kitchen crop - **How much does it cost?** VT34628 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/442283289-vkpmotor) ## 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 - • **Clamp Down Stability:** Innovative clamp design secures firmly on countertops 3/4" to 2-1/8" thick—no wobble, no fuss. - • **Effortless Grinding, Your Way:** Switch seamlessly between manual crank or optional electric motor for hands-free processing. - • **Upgrade Your Kitchen Workflow:** Compatible with VKP1248, VKP1024 Grain Mills & VKP250 Food Strainer—perfect for emergency prep or everyday gourmet. - • **Precision Straining Made Simple:** Includes specialized Apple/Tomato screen with 1.3mm holes and a 6-3/4” spiral for smooth, seed-free sauces. - • **Built to Last, Designed to Perform:** Sturdy cast aluminum frame with BPA-free plastic components ensures longevity and safe food prep. ## Overview The Kitchen Crop Motor for Food Strainer and Grain Mill is a durable, versatile accessory crafted from cast aluminum and stainless steel, designed to securely clamp onto countertops and convert manual grain mills or food strainers into electric-powered machines. Compatible with VKP1248, VKP1024, and VKP250 models, it includes specialized screens and arms for efficient, seed-free processing, making it ideal for both everyday cooking and emergency preparedness. ## Description Like choices? We do. With the electric motor accessory for the Deluxe Grain Mill or Johnny Apple Sauce Maker you can now have your choice of hand crank and electric operation on three different appliances. The electric motor accessory will make your grain mill or food strainer perfect for emergency preparedness and everyday use at a price you can afford. The Motor will help relieve you of all that hard manual grinding or processing. Easily install the grain mill arm for VKP1024 Grain Mills and VKP1248 The Grain Mill, or the food strainer arm for VKP250 Strainers. Then simply slide the motor shaft into the handle slot on your mill or food strainer, and let it do all the work for you. Built specifically for the model VKP1248, VKP1024, or VKP1024A Grain Mills and VKP250 Johnny Apple Sauce Maker / Food Strainer. 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 - SUPERIOR DURABILITY: Sturdy cast aluminum body and easy-to-install stainless steel screens. Plastic components are BPA free. - SECURE MOUNT: New clamp design has 10 square inches of clamping surface. Can mount to countertops from 3/4" to 2-1/8" thick - MANUAL OR ELECTRIC: Designed for manual use with the improved handle, or replace that with the optional Electric Motor VKPMOTOR - INCLUDES: Apple/Tomato Screen (1.3mm holes), Standard Spiral (6-3/4” long), and Instruction Manual ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B09ZFF4GDT | | Best Sellers Rank | #210,070 in Tools & Home Improvement ( See Top 100 in Tools & Home Improvement ) #337 in Electric Fan Motors | | Brand Name | KITCHEN CROP | | Color | White, Red, Silver | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,655) | | Included Components | The Motor Body, Grain Mill Arm, Food Strainer Arm | | Item Type Name | Motor | | Manufacture Year | 2023 | | Manufacturer | VKP Brands | | Manufacturer Warranty Description | 5 Year | | Material Type | Aluminum, Plastic, Stainelss Steel | | Power Source | AC | | UPC | 811957012240 | ## Product Details - **Brand:** KITCHEN CROP - **Color:** White, Red, Silver - **Manufacture Year:** 2023 - **Material:** Aluminum, Plastic, Stainelss Steel - **UPC:** 811957012240 ## Images ![VKPMOTOR - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41v4MY-9S0L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Size** options. ## 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. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/442283289-vkpmotor](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/442283289-vkpmotor) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*