On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT), Timo
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:53:44 AM UTC+10, pltrgyst wrote:
>> On 4/28/14, 4:09 PM, Timo wrote:
>>
>> > I use strainers in the kitchen quite often, but I don't think I've ever used one for baking.
>>
>> Not even for quick sifting?
>
>Never. I don't bake that often, and the baking I do doesn't require sifting.
>So I don't own a sifter. So, if I did need to sift, the right kind of strainer
>would work as a substitute. But I've not encountered the need.

I have several sieves, larger ones for rinsing canned beans, smaller
ones for dusting a cake with powdered sugar. A sieve comes in handy
when draining small pasta, many small pastas will go right through the
holes of a colander.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:45:39 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Cheryl" > wrote in message
web.com...
>> On 4/27/2014 10:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> I'm with ya there! Although I got rid of all of my old metal ones. I
>>> had two pairs only because one got misplaced. I am so glad we aren't
>>> making moves any more. Those movers that move the military always
>>> manage to put things in boxes where they don't belong and that was the
>>> case with the tongs!
>>>
>>> They were similar to these:
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Ekco-1057838-A...ds=metal+tongs
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know why but my mom had this kind and she used them to serve
>>> spaghetti. As you can imagine, they are highly ineffective. And bad
>>> for serving hot food because the handles got hot! Actually mine had
>>> only plain metal handles. I don't think I needed the things at all but
>>> they are what I grew up with so assumed that I needed them
>>
>> My mom had the same kind of tongs for spaghetti when I was a kid. Not
>> sure, but maybe the kind we use today wasn't available back then.
>
>Probably not.

There were far better tongs, and more types 50 years ago than the
crappy selection available today.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT), Timo
> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:53:44 AM UTC+10, pltrgyst wrote:
> > On 4/28/14, 4:09 PM, Timo wrote:
> >
> > > I use strainers in the kitchen quite often, but I don't think I've ever used one for baking.
> >
> > Not even for quick sifting?
>
> Never. I don't bake that often, and the baking I do doesn't require sifting. So I don't own a sifter. So, if I did need to sift, the right kind of strainer would work as a substitute. But I've not encountered the need.

I prefer using a strainer to sift and got rid of my sifter decades
ago.


--

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Good Friends.
Good Memories.

On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:32:42 AM UTC+10, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT), Timo wrote:
> >On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:53:44 AM UTC+10, pltrgyst wrote:
> >> On 4/28/14, 4:09 PM, Timo wrote:
> >>
> >> > I use strainers in the kitchen quite often, but I don't think I've ever used one for baking.
> >>
> >> Not even for quick sifting?
> >
> >Never. I don't bake that often, and the baking I do doesn't require sifting.
> >So I don't own a sifter. So, if I did need to sift, the right kind of strainer
> >would work as a substitute. But I've not encountered the need.
>
> I have several sieves, larger ones for rinsing canned beans, smaller
> ones for dusting a cake with powdered sugar. A sieve comes in handy
> when draining small pasta, many small pastas will go right through the
> holes of a colander.

I mostly use mine for rinsing beans. Sometimes draining noodles/pasta. Those aren't baking uses. Sieves are very useful in the kitchen. Mine lives on the ready-access rack rather than in a drawer.

(Don't often dust cakes. Sprinkling from a spoon works adequately.)

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:47:08 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>"sf" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 21:34:57 -0400, Cheryl >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/27/2014 10:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > I'm with ya there! Although I got rid of all of my old metal ones.
>>>> > I
>>>> > had two pairs only because one got misplaced. I am so glad we aren't
>>>> > making moves any more. Those movers that move the military always
>>>> > manage to put things in boxes where they don't belong and that was
>>>> > the
>>>> > case with the tongs!
>>>> >
>>>> > They were similar to these:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.amazon.com/Ekco-1057838-A...ds=metal+tongs
>
> I have those, they're nipple tongs... really... from when nursing
> bottles had to be sterilized. Don't any of yoose new mommys boil your
> nipples?

These days nipples are made of silicone and don't need to be boiled. But
Angela didn't use bottles for long. I did breast feed but couldn't produce
enough milk. I put her on sippy cups at about 4 months as bottles never
worked well for her.

"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:26:44 -0700 (PDT), Timo
> > wrote:
>
>>On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:53:44 AM UTC+10, pltrgyst wrote:
>>> On 4/28/14, 4:09 PM, Timo wrote:
>>>
>>> > I use strainers in the kitchen quite often, but I don't think I've
>>> > ever used one for baking.
>>>
>>> Not even for quick sifting?
>>
>>Never. I don't bake that often, and the baking I do doesn't require
>>sifting.
>>So I don't own a sifter. So, if I did need to sift, the right kind of
>>strainer
>>would work as a substitute. But I've not encountered the need.
>
> I have several sieves, larger ones for rinsing canned beans, smaller
> ones for dusting a cake with powdered sugar. A sieve comes in handy
> when draining small pasta, many small pastas will go right through the
> holes of a colander.

I have several too but they are rarely used.