On Jun 16, 6:47*am, Brooklyn1 > wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:23:54 -0500, "Polly Esther"
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> >"notbob" > wrote in message
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> >> On 2013-06-16, Polly Esther > wrote:
> >>> I was happily left in a kitchen tool store to inspect and consider most
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> >>> what was in there. *YeeHa! *Finally found something I'd needed for quite
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> >>> while. *Over in the mostly specific cake section was a small - maybe 2"
> >>> wide - strainer/sieve little thing whose intended purpose is to sprinkle
> >>> powdered sugar onto baked good stuff. *Aha! methinks. *Just right for
> >>> skimming scum, bubbly white froth from boiling potatoes or beans. *Yesss.
> >>> The standard skimmer here is okay when I'm cooking for a pack of wolves
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> >>> when cooking for four, this little tool is just right.
> >>> * * Been looking a long time for this one. *Polly
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> >> What!? *Yer not gonna show us the tool or where to get it?
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> >Here you go - or this may give you the zip code directory for Biloxi. The
> >picture is heaps magnified. In reality, the strainer is about the size of a
> >tablespoon. *http://www.crateandbarrel.com/powder...-spoon/s604356
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> This works much better: *http://www.amazon.com/Winware-Stainl...e-Handle/dp/B0...

Yeah Sheldon, for powdered sugar, but that's not what she is using the
little powdered sugar sifter for......she's using it to skim scum of
the tops of smaller pots full of beans or stock, etc.