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Posts tagged “strainer”

Cleaning Up: How Do You Clean Your Strainers?

We feel a little foolish, but we need your help with a problem that's been bugging us for quite some time. Strainers! No matter how thoroughly we think we've cleaned them, we always seem to find stray...

Hot or Not? Can Colander/Strainer

Do you struggle to drain all the water out of your can of tuna? Do you barely avoid cutting your fingers on just-opened canned tomatoes? Maybe this can colander is for you. Or, on the other hand, mayb...

Strainer, Colander, Chinois: What's the Difference?

We use these words (ok, maybe not chinois so much) interchangeably to describe something, usually metal, that holds solid ingredients while liquid passes through it. It's a strainer, a colander, a...