Make Perfect Meals With a Food Strainer

A food strainer is a very valuable tool to have in the kitchen. It can do so many different things to help in the preparation of meals. Many different kinds of foods are prepared using water. The food is either boiled in the water or it is cooked in some other kind of fluid. In many cases the food needs to be separated from the liquid it was cooked in to be served.

Using a food strainer is simply the easiest way to separated solid food from a liquid. Think in the terms of pasta and boiling water. You certainly can not take pasta straight from boiling water and put it on the table you need to strain the majority of the water out.

How It Works

There are a couple of different kinds of food strainer models. There is a hand held variety that usually has a very long handle for safety purposes, there is the type that is collapsible that sits in the sink and then there is the type that sits in the sink but is not collapsible.

All of the models have one thing in common regardless what material they are made from they will have a sieve at the sides and the bottom. This is a tightly woven area that will only allow liquids to pass through, but will keep solids within the strainer.

The sieve part of the strainer sometimes encompasses the entire strainer but in some cases the sieve part only goes up so high on the strainer than the strainer becomes solid.

Materials

Several different types of materials are used to make the various models of strainers. There are stainless steel models that are made out of one hundred percent stainless steel. There are plastic models that are made out of composite plastic materials. Some models are made out of aluminum.

Most all of these models have hard plastic handles. The hand held models usually are made of thin screening with a long handle. The collapsible models are almost always made of plastic.

The Cost

You can find a food strainer for fewer than ten dollars of course the larger the strainer the more expensive it will be. Consider what you will be using the strainer for, if you need a place to rinse off large items like salad greens and fruits you may want to invest in a larger food strainer, if not than a hand held model will probably be perfect for you.

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