Implements for Straining and Separating

These include:

Colanders; Funnels; Strainers; Flour sifters; Egg separators.

Colanders are perforated utensils made of aluminum, tinware, or enameled ware, or woven wire, for straining soups, vegetables, etc. They have ear handles.

Strainers are smaller than colanders and used for straining gravies, tea, etc. They are made entirely of woven wire, or of tinned or enameled ware with either woven wire or perforated bottoms.

Both colanders and strainers set over a kettle make excellent steamers.

Sifters are used for dry materials such as flour or meal. Flour sifters usually have cranks, operated at the side or through the handle, which revolve blades inside the sifter so as to break up lumpy meal and hasten the sifting process. They are of tinned ware, with wire bottoms.

Funnels are in the shape of an inverted cone, fastened to a tube. They are used for filling bottles or other narrow-mouthed receptacles. Funnels with wide mouths are used with fruit cans.

Egg separators are used in separating the yolk from the white of raw eggs. They are small, flat, round implements of either aluminum or tinned ware, with a slot through which the white of the egg slips and a cuplike depression which holds the yolk.