On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:13:14 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "cshenk"
> wrote,
> Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta from
>the stove to the sink colander at that age either.

I saw on a cooking show a pasta pot with an inner perforated pot that
you just lift out. It looked a lot easier than lifting the weight of
all that water, and a lot less tricky than pouring over the sink. At
least on TV.