colander
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People could also watch safely by projecting an image of the sun onto a white card using a telescope, a cereal box pinhole viewer, or even a kitchen colander.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
If you have not got a handy, leafy tree or a pinhole camera, Clough recommends taking a kitchen colander outside to create the same effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
A kitchen colander is one way to indirectly observe the eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
When the timer went off for the pasta, I went for the colander, but Grandma stopped me.
From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks
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In areas like Weston-super-Mare, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham and Warminster people gathered to watch the phenomenon with special glasses, alongside DIY viewers who looked through cereal boxes and colanders.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Aside from looking pretty, the pan has a built-in spoon and spatula rest and has a modular design that lets you nest steamer baskets and colanders.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2021
War-ruined bathhouses are dotted around Aleppo’s Old City, their distinctive domes, punched like colanders with round apertures of colored glass, lying smashed, or looking down on rooms filled with rubble and garbage.
From Reuters ● May 9, 2019
Three professional-grade mixing bowls and two colanders make up this Epicurious set.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2019
At times she sat cross-legged, at times with legs splayed, surrounded by an array of colanders and shallow bowls of water in which she immersed her chopped ingredients.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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