Saturday, March 25, 2017

The Ever-Changing Colander


A colander has many uses & there are many varieties of colanders. I had two for the longest time. One was white, which had tiny holes in it. That one was great for cooking projects where I’d be making angel hair or quinoa. The other one’s blue, which I’ve kept around for two reasons. One, I’m passionate about all things which are blue, & two, if I’d be cleaning strawberries, or doing anything else which would impact the potential color of the dish from which I’d be working, I’d rather not have red/pinkish stains on the white colander, so I’ve kept the blue one to forbid the potential of red stains on the white colander.

Then I made my way into the collapsible colander. This one was the one which was meant to cure all my storage space ails. Getting it to pop open proved to be an effort, just as much as collapsing it did.

Then I saw the strainer my parent’s use. Simple, small, & lots less clean up. In my humble opinion. Cleaning fruit is a bit different, yet it’s still possible to run the water over the fruit while in the bowl, then strain the water out & not have the fruit fall out because the strainer’s in place alongside the bowl’s edge.

Colanders still come in handy. A particular one I currently use sits atop a mug rug doubling as a dish drainer base. It’s great because I can toss the mug rug right into the laundry when it gets to be that soiled. The colander is an adequate size & shape for my dish draining needs; personal efficiency at its best.

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