how to clean fine mesh strainer?

Paul

Paul

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I went looking for a good tip and a method to clean one of these. The things I found on various sites and a thread on reddit were stuff I've already tried. Anyone have a good tip? Mine seems really problematic because it has two layers of fine mesh and particles are trapped between the two layers.

 
Wow! You must've bought the Commando 5000 Ultra Mesh Mesh Strainer, dude!

Mine only has one layer of mesh.

Have you contacted the manufacturer?

Michael

 
I have two like this

one is large and sits in the sink and the arms extend. I'm pretty sure I got this at Costco 10 +/- years ago. the other is small and it is actually barware. I'm not sure who the manufacturer is. but I use it for different things including straining tea. both have the double mesh. the small one is extra fine and very handy to use. Rests on a regular sized mug or glass with a little handle. Both get particles caught in between.

 
Paul, I have a chinois strainer (also called china cap) and there are lots of hints if you search

those terms.

My worst case was trying to get out raspberry seeds after processing a quart of them.

UGH>>>

I did the green sponge scrub and put the sprayer right up against the outside, spraying inward (rather than trying to force the little buggers OUT of the strainer).

 
I have a chinois also but this is different

chinois is a solid piece with small holes. the issue is the mesh. It is sort of like the material you see in your window screens but finer holes and a little thicker material. It makes them particularly hard to clean. I'd take a picture but I don't think I could get enough clarity to show it.

 
See! What did I say! And if you bump it up to the pressure washer, you can get rid of mold on the

side of the house.

It's a Two-fer.

(okay...remote possibility that you won't have a strainer left when you're done)

 
LOL. I spray mine in the sink and then bang the hell out of it on edge of the sink....

I learned this from Mrs. Heller, a 60ish year old women who came back to my HS to finish her diploma. Her son Joey was principle tuba in the MHS Concert Band and was embarrassed (We got straight I ratings at the Ohio State Band Competition State OMEA contests, BTW--weren't those the days!!!)..

So anyway, me, 16YO, and Mrs. Heller 60YO, were in Food and Nutrition class. We were sent to the kitchen to make muffins. Everyone grabbed their friends to go off to the kitchens and it was me and Mrs. H. left over. Just like baseball on the pitch in elementary school!!! What the hell. There was no sieve for the flour, so we, the smart people, took a strainer from the cabinet and sieved the flour. Afterwards, when our muffins killed the rest of the riff-raff, Mrs. Heller and I were at our station cleaning up. She took that sieve, rinsed it, and banged the hell out of it inside the sink. "what are you doing?"

"Cleaning the sieve!" she said.

And thus bonded the 60YO and the 16YO. We had English, English Literature, and Botany classes together and we would meet outside to gossip. She smoked cigarettes. (OHMYGAWD!!!!) and she would offer me a puff. I love senior citizen delinquents! My grandmother and great-aunt were friends of hers, and when I graduated from HS, guess who I walked up the aisle with? My grandmother was beside herself with joy as we walked down the aisle into the auditorium.

And Joey, who graduated a year earlier, was there to cheer us on.

Mrs. H. died 12 years after HS graduation. I was so privileged to know her.

 
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