Kitchen ?-- What's a "sieve"?

[jamsmu]

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[mudder17]

It's basically like a collander, although I think of it with finer holes. Here's a picture of one:

http://www.decuisine.co.uk/cookshop/bakeware/professional-stainless-steel-sieve.html?ref=Kelkoo

Okay, so to highjack your thread, what is a microplane?


Eileen

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[psophia17]

It's one of those mesh thingies you'd use to sift flour. Usually a fine weave bowl-shaped basket with a handle. Sieves can also be in cup form, with either a spring-loaded handle that stirs the flour while you sift, or sometimes bigger ones have a crank that stirs the flour.

When you sift flour, you are adding air and making sure that there aren't any lumps in your finished product...

You can also use a sieve (the bowl kind, not the cup kind) to strain seeds and fibers out of purees - you'd push the puree out using a rubber spatula and the seeds and fibers wouldn't go through the mesh. You get a really fine puree this way, and berry coulis are also made this way.

HTH!

[psophia17]

A microplane is a very fine grater, and is really good for getting the rind from citrus, grating nutmeg, and grating small amounts of hard cheeses.

Originally a tool for woodworking, they are also called rasps:
http://www.leevalley.com/gifts/page.aspx?c=2&p=32458&cat=4,104,53214&ap=1

[mudder17]

Ah! Gotcha! Clearly, I need to come here when I'm looking for new kitchen utensils/appliances, etc.! :) I have a tiny one, but it's such a pain to use because it's so small! Maybe I should get one of these things. :)


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[kaylinsmommy2]

Oooh. You sound like a gourmet chef! Can I come to your house for dinner? ;) Yum, berry coulis.
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[Saccade]

They are AWESOME, Eileen! Go for it.

Oh, and a sieve is also a lousy hockey goalie. Petra, shame on you for not thinking of this first, you Great White Northerner (and prior to that, upstate NYer)!

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[kijip]

>It's one of those mesh thingies you'd use to sift flour.
>Usually a fine weave bowl-shaped basket with a handle. Sieves
>can also be in cup form, with either a spring-loaded handle
>that stirs the flour while you sift, or sometimes bigger ones
>have a crank that stirs the flour.
>
>When you sift flour, you are adding air and making sure that
>there aren't any lumps in your finished product...
>
>You can also use a sieve (the bowl kind, not the cup kind) to
>strain seeds and fibers out of purees - you'd push the puree
>out using a rubber spatula and the seeds and fibers wouldn't
>go through the mesh. You get a really fine puree this way,
>and berry coulis are also made this way.
>
>HTH!


Well, I am already looking forwards to seeing you in February. Maybe I should toss a case of Prego in the trunk ;)???

[psophia17]

And an alum of a Division I hockey school...I dated one of the hockey players, and tutored a bunch of them...how did I forget???

[psophia17]

You're all invited - just keep in mind that I don't actually own half the kitchen gadgets that I wish I owned...Ikea has nice stuff, but not that nice... ;)

[KrisM]

>Oh, and a sieve is also a lousy hockey goalie. Petra, shame
>on you for not thinking of this first, you Great White
>Northerner (and prior to that, upstate NYer)!
>
That was my first thought!

[jamsmu]

Thanks everyone! I had to sieve tonight and I used a collander/strainer. I was "sieving" a apples to make a dessert sauce and kept thinking this was a major PITA. Looks like it would have been even harder if I actually had a sieve.

Off to buy more kitchen items.

[psophia17]

An apple dessert sauce sounds delish - where's my portion, hmmm?

A trick if you don't want to go through that again is to put some applesauce (whatever you like) into the blender with some juice (apple, oj, whatever you like) to thin it out, and let 'er rip until it's the consistency you want.

I made homemade applesauce for DS once - stewed the apples, mushed it through a strainer. It was a royal PITA, to be sure.

[jamsmu]

I had so much left over, and I put it down the drain. Would have loved to have shipped it a million miles to you, Petra, LOL.

Got it from Joy of Cooking:
saute 1 Granny Smith Apple (cut into 1/4 in chunks) for about 5 minutes until soft. Add 1/4 cup honey, 1/4 cup sugar and 1 1/2 cups apple cider. Cook and stir often about 15 minutes--until apples are transparent. strain liquids and continue heating. Then SIEVE apples so that you are creating the apple sauce. Add back to liquids and cook down to 1 cup. Remove from stove. Add 3T butter, 1/8 t salt and 1/4t nutmeg. Serve warm. (Optional: add cognac, brandy, etc.)

Ideally, you use it over pound cake or something yummy, but it was also recommended over pork tenderloin medallions, which is how DS and DH had it. (I don't eat pork--haven't since I was 10. But I did take a tiny taste tonight. The apple sauce overpowered the pork, but I couldn't get past the fact that it was pork.)

[Saccade]

>And an alum of a Division I hockey school...I dated one of
>the hockey players, and tutored a bunch of them...how did I
>forget???

It was the only sport I attended regularly during college (besides the important football games, of course). We used to throw sieves on the ice when appropriate.

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[Saccade]

>
>Got it from Joy of Cooking:

<SNIP>


THANKS for the recipe -- sounds so good!

Here's one of my own:

-- Core 4 apples 3/4 of the way down (leave the bottom intact). Cut the stem end off the core and make a little hat
-- Peel them just around the equator
-- Stuff the cavity you have created with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon (can add red hots if you are feeling like a kid or feeding a kid)
-- Put the hats back on
-- Pack them tightly into a souflee dish or similar high-walled oven-safe vessel that is just big enough to hold them
-- Dot with extra butter (is there ever such a thing?)
-- Bake at 350 until tender

YUM!

You can puree leftovers (if there are any) into awesome rich applesauce.



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