strainer

For ultra-smooth texture, pass the purée through a fine-mesh strainer — an optional step, but one that brings a dish firmly into restaurant territory.

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Use whatever strainer you have: Perhaps a fine-mesh, a collander set over another pot or — if you happen to inexplicably have access to a restaurant — a tamis or a chinois.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2024

Drain in a fine-mesh strainer, rinse under cool water and drain again.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

While their treatment of the ancient world is informed, to say the least, by their prior work, the scenario also feels like Hallmark pulped through a Disney strainer.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Once when the Store was full of lunchtime customers, he dipped the strainer, which we also used to sift weevils from meal and flour, into the barrel and fished for two fat pickles.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

Special strainers for grating and juicing tomatoes gained a place among kitchen furnishings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025

Hand crank and electric tomato presses, strainers and sauce makers allow gardeners to separate the skins and seeds from the tomato meat for quicker and easier processing.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Their bodies can become caught against underwater thickets of tree branches and debris, called strainers, which can make it difficult to find them until the waters recede.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Eisenbise testified that she first had to drill a hole through one of the device’s end-caps and remove several metallic strainers inside the tube before it could function as a silencer.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

They lift broken masonry blocks, shovel dust and shattered glass through strainers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr