Coarse kitchen sieve

It is a bit late for this year, but I fairly often want to do something like sieve out the stones from damson splosh to make jam. Unfortunately, I need a sieve with something like a 1/16" to 1/8" mesh, and I have never been able to find one.

I made a coarse garden sieve, as I had the same trouble at a larger scale, but the techniques are not appropriate for kitchen use. I have no objection to using some other utensil or device, but a chip deep frier insert is too coarse, and so are the finest kitchen racks I can find.

Any ideas?

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

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Nick Maclaren
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Ask a metal stock holder for some food grade stainless steel mesh? Plastic colinder from sainsbury and drill some more holes in it?

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James Salisbury

In article , "James Salisbury" writes: |> |> Ask a metal stock holder for some food grade stainless steel mesh? Plastic |> colinder from sainsbury and drill some more holes in it?

Thanks, but :-(

It's not the mesh that is the problem, but finishing it off. The garden sieve could be between two thin pieces of wood, in the traditional fashion, but that would be very difficult to clean in the kitchen.

I once used a soldering iron to make holes in a bowl for brewing, and it was a RIGHT pain. I don't want to do that again. Plastic is a bit weak for this purpose, but the same could be done to a metal utensil (with a drill), as you say.

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

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Nick Maclaren

Have you tried the Commercial Caterers Wholesale places? We certainly had course sieves when I was in the hotel, but that was some time ago.

Do you have, or do you have access to, a Caterer's Wholesalers? I have Booker's Card and when I go in there next I will look and see what they have.

Best wishes

Mike

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'Mike'

================================== Pressure cooker food separators have perforations about 4mm diameter, so you might consider one.

Just from a practical point of view, wouldn't a much coarser mesh be better for sieving out fruit stones which tend to to be about 20 / 25 mm long?

Cic.

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Cicero

two chip pan baskets* at 45degrees?

  • the circular type

pk

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p.k.

We have a plastic handle/rimmed, unbranded, kitchen sieve with a hemispherical metal sieve part about 7" dia with the holes around 2mm square. I'd expect almost any supermarket with a kitchen utensils section to have something similar.

Sorry about mixing imperial/metric units, it's an age thing.

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Dave Liquorice

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There is a simple and inexpensive kitchen tool that does this. I call it a food mill. The largest holed disk will leave the stones and skins in the mill and push the flesh through the disk.

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Giusi

In message , Nick Maclaren writes

Have you tried a Mouli?

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June Hughes

In article , Cicero writes: |> |> Pressure cooker food separators have perforations about 4mm diameter, so |> you might consider one.

Yes. We had some, and I tried. There are too few holes abd too much metal.

|> Just from a practical point of view, wouldn't a much coarser mesh be |> better for sieving out fruit stones which tend to to be about 20 / 25 mm |> long?

Not damsons, let alone sloes.

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

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Nick Maclaren

In article , June Hughes writes: |>

|> Have you tried a Mouli?

Yes :-(

OK for small quantities; a real pain for large ones. A catering Mouli might work, but I don't want anything too bulky, as storage is a problem for things used 3-4 times a year.

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

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Nick Maclaren

Would a potato ricer do?

Otherwise I think you're looking for a triturator, which Nisbets have with 1-4mm sieves.

They are Not Cheap.

Owain

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Owain

We have a saucepan with an insert which is perforated - I think they call it a pasta pot - it has a lot of holes in the inner bit which are about 4mm diameter and it has the advantage of a pan to catch the juice in.

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John

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Alan Holmes

so fit the mesh to the inside of the chip pan basket you tried earlier

Tony

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TMC

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posted on 28 Aug 2007 by Dave Liquorice I would like to add:

Same as my sieve from the shop in Corwen.

Disability equipment veg cooking baskets have a much finer mesh than chip baskets, a nylon covered handle and are tougher than a standard sieve.

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Elaine Jones

I have a plastic colander with holes that size and I'm sure I have seen metal versions.

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Cerumen

Catering suppliers. We had a variety in our hotel.

Mike

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'Mike'

Thanks for all of the hints - I will look at commercial products.

The problem with colanders etc. is that they are mostly metal. I have tried using them, and it is virtually impossible to get the pulp through at a reasonable rate. It is MUCH quicker to use a coarseish sieve and work at it.

Regards, Nick Maclaren.

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Nick Maclaren

Go to your local hardware store and get a small sheet of the mesh they put over window frames to keep the bugs out. If you're halfways handy you should be able to fashion a frame for it.

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Alex Cunningham

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