6" diameter Bamboo Skimmer/Strainer
by Made in China
Our Price: $5.99
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Category: Kitchen
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Made in ChinaBrand: Wok Shop
Product features:
- 6" diameter
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of 6" diameter Bamboo Skimmer/Strainer
Customer Review: Super Kitchen Tool...Good Price
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up this bamboo strainer over a year ago at a local home show. It was more expensive there but is the very same one. At 6" diameter it is just big enough to be easily used in most sauce pans and pots, without being too small to be useful. The wire basket is made of a good quality stainless steel, and the handle is a solid bamboo that stays cool no matter how much you use it over a steaming hot pot. The wire design is bigger than a screen type mesh which is not really the most ideal thing to use for deep frying. For the small particles of food and crumbs get caught constantly in a screen, and are very hard to clean. This wider mesh design is a far better choice if deep frying a lot is your favor. For me personally, I find this tool indispensable for cooking things like ravioli, and my personal favorite, home made Chinese style dumplings, (yum). Scooping things like macaroni, shrimp, or any other kind of solid food out of a pot with this tool is much easier in many cases than transporting the whole business to a colander. Unlike a colander that requires you dump the whole meal, this skimmer also allows one to scoop out items that are done in a pot, while leaving behind others that have a few more minutes to cook. Overall I have found this tool to be greatly useful in my kitchen since purchasing it.
One last thing to be considered. As was the case at the home show, there are higher priced strainers available on Amazon. Some of them are more expensive for they are bigger, while others owe their higher price directly to a brand name in my opinion. I have not used the other higher priced strainer's, but when I examined them at the home show I found the biggest difference in the ones offering a higher price to be mostly that way because of some chefs name scrawled over the handle. There may be a little difference in quality, but not enough of one to justify the higher price in most cases. As useful as this tool is in your kitchen, it still is not something that one is going to use everyday and wear out quickly. Mine is over a year old and still cleans up as good as new. My recommendation is to skip the higher priced models, and buy this well designed handy sized strainer right here on Amazon and get cooking . Bon Apitit!
Description of 6" diameter Bamboo Skimmer/Strainer
A unique, handsome, and practical Chinese skimmer with brass wire mesh and a long bamboo handle. There is no substitute for this tool that lifts out pasta, wontons, ravioli, and tortellini from boiling water or fried foods from hot oil. The most handy, versatile, useful, durable, and inexpensive utensil in any kitchen Ð some even use it in the kitty litter box!Cook's Tools & Gadgets
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