Good Product: Easy Drain Produce Cleaning Net

Take a look at this "floating net" - a very practical small-space solution. It takes up way less room than a colander, but it gives you plenty of space still to rinse all your fresh produce from the farmers' market.

You can fill it with fruits and veggies, then drop it in a sink full of water to give foods a soak. Then lift it out and let the water drain. It's great for cleaning greens, fruit, and more. If you need it dry faster, take it outside and spin around your head a few times.

It's pretty large - it measures about 14" in diameter and 17" long. Plenty of room to wash all kinds of good things, but it still stores flat.

• Easy Drain Produce Cleaning Net, $9.95 at Solutions

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Comments (11)

This seems like a great idea, in theory. But that net looks like a very fine mesh and would really only let through fine particles of dirt. All of the other, bigger, grosser crap would stay behind, and you'd still have to wash it again.

posted by zero on June 25th 2008 at 6:54am
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Also prevents pregnancy and diseases when used correctly.

posted by milquetoast on June 25th 2008 at 7:13am
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The good thing about a colander is the large holes, which allow dirt to wash away (especially on organic or greenmarket veggies, which tend to be dirtier). I feel like the fine weave of this product would just trap the stuff you're trying to get rid of...

posted by mh330 on June 25th 2008 at 7:52am
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Ditto to the net trapping a lot of the dirt.

posted by m! on June 25th 2008 at 7:56am
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I thought the same things as milquetoast....only I imagine the effectiveness is vastly decreased by the mesh netting.

posted by Michelle of Montreal on June 25th 2008 at 8:12am
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how would rinsing vegetables prevent pregnancy?

clean veggies prevent disease, sure, but how would the cause infertility?

posted by Halie on June 25th 2008 at 12:07pm
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Halie, that comment was just a joke because the net looks like a giant . . ..

posted by bluenude on June 25th 2008 at 7:09pm
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Would this work for rinsing the starch off rice? My rice recipe ("the iranian way") calls for rinsing the rice 5-10 times until the water runs clear. This was virtually impossible in the large hole colandar (rice falls through) and too much rice for my small fine mesh colandar. I don't have room to buy and store a new large mesh colandar, but this bag idea might work?

posted by Carrie too on June 26th 2008 at 5:07am
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hilarious!

posted by akostalas on June 26th 2008 at 11:39am
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I was immediately struck by its height-- I don't know about anyone else, but I have a cabinet over my sink, and there just isn't room for me to lift something that is 17" high clear of the sink, making it all very awkward. Seems like a design flaw to me.

Ditto on the mesh. Maybe it's designed for people who are just washing off pesticides?

posted by Eliza on June 26th 2008 at 12:12pm
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Carrie too, you don't need anything special to rinse the starch off rice. Any bowl will do the job. Just add water and swish the rice around with your hand. Then drain.
You keep doing that until the water runs clear. We've been cleaning rice this way for years (also conserves water since there is an official drought in Cali) Hope this helps.

posted by bluenude on June 26th 2008 at 4:25pm
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