"Sheldon" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom scribbled:
"Dave Smith" wrote:
sandi wrote:
(Eric) wrote:

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

I don't like to use fine screens for draining starchy things. They
sometimes get gummed up with a starch and then are a pain in the
butt to clean.

To clean sieves (and colanders) use a small scrub brush... veggie
brushes work well.

A regular colander works just fine.

True, I've never had fine pasta actually slip through the holes of a
colander, a couple of very tips may stick out the hole like maybe a
half inch but that's all.

Yeah - the screens shred sponges when you try and clean them.

What kind of moron uses a screen to clean sponges?!?!?

Sheldon


Read it again, colon breath.

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
Oh pshaw, on Mon 09 Oct 2006 06:10:29p, Eric meant to say...

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with holes
small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

I use a mesh colander like this one:

http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=117011

And just last week Duh'Wayne was bragging how he wears that thingie to
protect his thoughts, what few he has, from aliens... that peice of
dreck ain't any good for draining hot pasta, it's awfully flimsy
looking, and without handles it's an accident looking to happen.

Sheldon

cybercat wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Eric wrote:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with
holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Just use a strainer. How difficult is that?


Probably about as hard as it is for you to be bitchy for no good reason.

Why don't yoose gals just use yer lacey bra cups... should hold a pound
of rigatoni each, and all that starch can't hurt! LOL

Sheldon Fredricks

sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:


I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.


Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

Is that really a problem. I haven't cooked angel hair
pasta for many years but I don't remember that being
a problem when I did. I've always used a standard
metal colanger with holes about 1/16-1/8 inch wide.
Sometimes an end or two might would slip through the hole but
it's not like the whole batch slithered out through the
holes into the sink. It really wasn't a problem.

Kate

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Dave Smith" wrote in message
...
sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

I don't like to use fine screens for draining starchy things. They
sometimes get gummed up with a starch and then are a pain in the
butt to clean. A regular colander works just fine.



Yeah - the screens shred sponges when you try and clean them.

I use an old toothbrush to clean them. Works wonders.

"Kate Connally" wrote in message
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sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.


Stainless steel wire mesh colander Search Cooking.com for picture/price
if interested.

I'm looking for an excuse to buy a new colander, but my green plastic
tupperware one (I've had for over 32 years) - works just fine.

Drat!

Elaine

Dave Smith wrote:
sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

I don't like to use fine screens for draining starchy things. They
sometimes get gummed up with a starch and then are a pain in the
butt to clean. A regular colander works just fine.

Mine works fine. You just have to rinse it with hot water right after
using it & then wash it some time in the near future. I usually stick
it in the dishwasher, which makes sure all the cracks & creavaces are
'specially clean.

Christopher Helms wrote:
jmcquown wrote:
Eric wrote:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with
holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Just use a strainer. How difficult is that?

Jill

I use angel hair all the time and have never had that happen.

I have. I have a plastic strainer I bought in college that has pretty
big holes. Even regular sketty sometimes inches into the holes. My
mesh strainer is all I use for sketty noodles.

"denise~*" wrote in message
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Dave Smith wrote:
sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

I don't like to use fine screens for draining starchy things. They
sometimes get gummed up with a starch and then are a pain in the
butt to clean. A regular colander works just fine.

Mine works fine. You just have to rinse it with hot water right after
using it & then wash it some time in the near future. I usually stick
it in the dishwasher, which makes sure all the cracks & creavaces are
'specially clean.


That's like....anal. Are you me? :-)

cybercat wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Eric wrote:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with
holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Just use a strainer. How difficult is that?


Probably about as hard as it is for you to be bitchy for no good reason.

Ohh, but don't forget. She is the smartest on RFC. Even if you have
your own thoughts, opinions & beliefs, hers are always better. We must
bow down to the great Queen Jill and humble ourselves with her presence
on RFC, as we are but mere rabble.

.....Hrm, if I were to look up the definitions of 'colander' &
'strainer', it looks to be the same thing. Actually, it looks like a
colander IS a strainer. Fancy that. Oops, am I being obstinate?

col·an·der
-noun
1. a metal or plastic container with a perforated bottom, for draining
and straining foods.

strain·er
-noun
1. One that strains, as a device used to separate liquids from
solids.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"denise~*" wrote in message
ups.com...

Dave Smith wrote:
sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Stainless steel wire mesh colander
Search Cooking.com for picture/price if interested.

I don't like to use fine screens for draining starchy things. They
sometimes get gummed up with a starch and then are a pain in the
butt to clean. A regular colander works just fine.

Mine works fine. You just have to rinse it with hot water right after
using it & then wash it some time in the near future. I usually stick
it in the dishwasher, which makes sure all the cracks & creavaces are
'specially clean.


That's like....anal. Are you me? :-)

Oops, my true colors are showing?

Did I mention I put my cereal in Tupperware containers & they have to
be on the shelf in order of size. :-)

elaine wrote:
"Kate Connally" wrote in message
...
sandi wrote:

(Eric) wrote in
:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across
with holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.


Stainless steel wire mesh colander Search Cooking.com for picture/price
if interested.

I'm looking for an excuse to buy a new colander, but my green plastic
tupperware one (I've had for over 32 years) - works just fine.

Drat!

Who says you can only have one... I have three, a small one and a large
one (aluminum), and a large plastic/nylon one. Colanders are very
inexpensive, evey home kitchen needs at least two.

Sheldon

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
Oh pshaw, on Mon 09 Oct 2006 06:10:29p, Eric meant to say...

I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with holes
small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

I use a mesh colander like this one:

http://www.cooking.com/products/shprodde.asp?SKU=117011

Ohh, we are colander buddies. I have the same one!

"Eric" wrote in message
...
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with holes
small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Don't use a colander. Use a seive.

--
My Word
in
FERGUS/HARLINGEN
http://www.mompeagram.homestead.com/index.html

denise~* wrote:
cybercat wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
. ..
Eric wrote:
I was just wondering what colander(s) people have come across with
holes small enough to prevent it from slipping out.

Just use a strainer. How difficult is that?


Probably about as hard as it is for you to be bitchy for no good reason.

Ohh, but don't forget. She is the smartest on RFC. Even if you have
your own thoughts, opinions & beliefs, hers are always better. We must
bow down to the great Queen Jill and humble ourselves with her presence
on RFC, as we are but mere rabble.

....Hrm, if I were to look up the definitions of 'colander' &
'strainer', it looks to be the same thing. Actually, it looks like a
colander IS a strainer. Fancy that. Oops, am I being obstinate?

col·an·der
-noun
1. a metal or plastic container with a perforated bottom, for draining
and straining foods.

strain·er
-noun
1. One that strains, as a device used to separate liquids from
solids.

They perform similar/overlapping functions but they are not the same...
a colander's holes are formed by perforations, a strainer by woven wire
(more at wire cloth)... there are functions that each can perform that
the other cannot, leastways not very well. Generally colanders are
made more sturdily than sieves/strainers, whereas a colander used often
can typically last a lifetime of cooking and even get passed down,
while wire mesh sieves/strainers when used often typically don't last
very long. Sieves are more often used as a guaging/sizing device and
to press foods through to form a particular consistancy determined by
the mesh guage, and to drain relatively fine foods. like rice. Whereas
colanders are mainly used as draining devises, and generally for the
more coarse foods. Colanders because they are constructed more solidly
can generally be used for larger/heavier items than can sieves
constucted generally of fine wire mesh. And then there are devises
that are part colander and part sieve, constructed of expanded metal,
typically known as a "china cap", both mechanically strong and capable
of fine guaging.

Sheldon