The KitchenAid attachment is only a single strainer type, useful for the tomatoes to make only a sauce with no seeds or skins. If you want a salsa, as mentioned, chopping the tomatoes will give you that. The other option is to use a similar machine, the Villaware (Roma) with their salsa screen that has 1/4 diameter holes. Even for that size, the salsa is only slightly chunky. If it were me, I would only use the KitchenAid attachment for tomato sauces, or for extracting juices from berries with medium size seeds.

Kitchenaid dishwashers are manufactured by Whirpool as are most Kenmores and they all essentially similar if you look inside. The Kitchenaids with the prefix KUDS have the food grinder and the 4 arm spray arm on the bottom which was a traditional Kitchenaid design. The models prefixed KUDE have an S shaped spray arm and no food grinder but a filter which occasionally needs to be rinsed out.. Otherwise they're the same. Perhaps every few weeks if that. As the number portion of the model increases 30,40, 45, 50, etc. the features and cycles increase as well as how quiet it is. As far as reliability they're probably no worse than other brands but it is annoying when it happens. Ours died after 11 months, thankfully with one month remaining on the warranty, so I quickly bought the extended warranty. I would advise it with any dishwasher these days. One year is not enough anymore.. That's how they keep the prices down, they removed a year or two of warranty that you used to get built into the price. They clean very well though. The one thing I think is missing (verify it first) from the model you're looking at that I find really useful is the "one hour wash" cycle. You' may have to move up to the KUDS40 series or higher to get that.. it's well worth it. Otherwise they take more than 2 hours to wash and that doesn't include dry time. If you're doing a couple of loads a day you may really appreciate that option. It washes just as well in an hour as on the regular cycles.and doesn't use much more water or popwer. .We use the one hour wash cycle 98% of the time. I hate waiting for dishes to be done. The one hour wash doesn't include drying time either, that'll add another 20 minutes if you select heated dry, but they dry really fast without heated dry if you pop the door open right after they're washed. As for service if something does go wrong, I found them fast and efficient but still had to wait a week till the part came in.

Gary, I have never self cleaned the oven, which may explain why I've had no problems. I also have the fancy "Steam Assist" model, I don't know if that was affected by the self clean bug or not. But I haven't deliberately avoided self cleaning because it's Kitchenaid, I just don't self clean _any_ oven, regardless of the brand, and I recommend others do the same. However at a rental property I do have a different Kitchenaid oven, (not steam assist though) and it stopped working when the tenant self cleaned it. The thermal fuse replacement was very easy to do, and it turns out Whirlpool had a service bulletin out that involved changing something. I forget exactly what it said to do (this was several years ago), but I think it might have involved moving the thermal fuse. After doing that, there were no more problems, Whirlpool has fixed the problem on their new series of ovens across all their brands. I wouldn't let that hold me back from buying a Kitchenaid oven. I would be curious to see what parts the BSH brands shared. I can totally see how http://st.houzz.com/simgs/1de1dfe900045eea_4-3722/contemporary-ovens.jpg shares parts with http://www.goedekers.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/o/bosch-hbl8450uc-1.jpg, but I find it hard to believe the first two share that many parts with http://www.gaggenau.com/store/medias/sys_master/h4d/h53/8910608433182/MCSA00632369_BO480110_pstz_def.jpg. This post was edited by hvtech42 on Sun, May 11, 14 at 9:43

I still will respond. I looked at a Bosch. My inlaws have one and love it. But I looked at the way they put their dishes in, just the two of them, and realized it wasn't a dishwasher for "fill it up with everything you can find Kristen". My mother got a Whirlpool, and she loved hers to. I originally didn't thrill to the plastic interior, but then saw all of the options for filling it. It was also pretty quiet. So, now I have it and love it. Then anyone else in the family says it's full, I find it a challenge to put even more inside! It's has an amazing amount of space and the ways that the racks morph into different positions makes it so user friendly. Love it. I didn't think I'd like the silverware on the door, but it's great. I love the little 4 inch rack that can be used or placed on it's side for large knives and utensils. And the tell tale test for any dishwasher, bowls fit beautifully in the top rack. Check it out!