"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Polly Esther" > wrote:
>
>> I was happily left in a kitchen tool store to inspect and consider most
>> of
>> what was in there. YeeHa! Finally found something I'd needed for quite
>> a
>> 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
>> but
>> when cooking for four, this little tool is just right.
>> Been looking a long time for this one. Polly
>
> Isn't that called a tea strainer?

That's what I thought too.