Wednesday, November 27, 2013

What Do You Use a Food Strainer For?

Food strainers are used for much more than getting that pesky water out of your pasta noodles. They can help you make fancy sauces and desserts, as well as thin watery soups. Read on to learn some of the easy tricks you can use to get the most from your food strainer.There is a difference between a strainer and a colander. A colander is what you probably already have. It has handles and sits inside your sink to dump your pasta into. A strainer, on the other hand, use usually conical, made from metal, and has much smaller perforations than a colander. These are used to make all sorts of culinary goodies!Whenever you need to separate the pulp from the liquid of fruits and veggies, the strainer is your go-to utensil. After tomatoes have been blanched, drop them into your strainer and use a large spoon to press all of the liquid out of them. You now have tomato sauce that came out and crushed tomatoes inside the strainer.Separating berry seeds and skins from their juice has always been a tough job. With a food strainer it is very simple, just follow the same steps discussed for the tomatoes above. If you hate lemon seeds, put a strainer on top of wherever you're squeezing the lemon to catch any seeds that might fall out.These are just a handful of the uses for food strainers. They are incredibly handy tools, but most people tend to overlook them. Keep one in your kitchen where you can see it and it will get more use than you think!

Charles D'Antoni is an expert Italian cook. His newest site, the Food Strainer Shop, works to show you all of the different uses for food mill

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