strainer
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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
He’s now pouring the rest of the contents of his cereal bowl into the drain strainer and rinsing the sink.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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
He wants to go back to tea pits, tea cups, tea strainers and "those all-omitting tea timers".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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
