Last weekend I canned applesauce. Finally got apples on our trees, took awhile since the deer kept mauling them until we fenced them. I purchased a Back to Basics Food Strainer several years ago, at the affordable price of around forty dollars. It is well worth the price and I've used it for canning tomato sauce and berries and applesauce, apple butter. Super easy to do the applesauce, too. All you do is pick your apples, wash them, put them in a bit of water and cover and steam until tender. Quarter them and put them through the strainer. Put them in a pot on the stove and add sugar and cinnamon to taste and can in a hot water bath for twenty minutes. Just be sure to leave enough head space as a few of them I overfilled. I highly recommend the Blue Ball Book of Canning. It has great, easy to follow recipes.