Customer Reviews

6" diameter Bamboo Skimmer/Strainer

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Feel just like Giada and dip out that pasta... It is a great product with a super long handle for large pots. I love it. I gave one as a gift, too.

This bamboo skimmer/strainer is a great tool for the kitchen. The quality is excellent and the price is a steal. I use it to strain raviolis and vegetables, for straining various foods while frying. It cleans up nicely and is so easy to use. I highly recommend it.

You might think you will never need or use this strange strainer but if you keep it handy in your kitchen, you will find yourself reaching for it frequently. It strains, scoops, serves, skims, etc.

This is an amazingly simple product but it is so useful. No need to dirty a colander when draining boiled potatoes. Get all your fried foods out of the oil in one or two swipes of the skimmer. Great quality product.

I picked up this bamboo strainer over a year ago at a local home show. It was more expensive there but is the very same one. At 6" diameter it is just big enough to be easily used in most sauce pans and pots, without being too small to be useful. The wire basket is made of a good quality stainless steel, and the handle is a solid bamboo that stays cool no matter how much you use it over a steaming hot pot. The wire design is bigger than a screen type mesh which is not really the most ideal thing to use for deep frying. For the small particles of food and crumbs get caught constantly in a screen, and are very hard to clean. This wider mesh design is a far better choice if deep frying a lot is your favor. For me personally, I find this tool indispensable for cooking things like ravioli, and my personal favorite, home made Chinese style dumplings, (yum). Scooping things like macaroni, shrimp, or any other kind of solid food out of a pot with this tool is much easier in many cases than transporting the whole business to a colander. Unlike a colander that requires you dump the whole meal, this skimmer also allows one to scoop out items that are done in a pot, while leaving behind others that have a few more minutes to cook. Overall I have found this tool to be greatly useful in my kitchen since purchasing it.

One last thing to be considered. As was the case at the home show, there are higher priced strainers available on Amazon. Some of them are more expensive for they are bigger, while others owe their higher price directly to a brand name in my opinion. I have not used the other higher priced strainer's, but when I examined them at the home show I found the biggest difference in the ones offering a higher price to be mostly that way because of some chefs name scrawled over the handle. There may be a little difference in quality, but not enough of one to justify the higher price in most cases. As useful as this tool is in your kitchen, it still is not something that one is going to use everyday and wear out quickly. Mine is over a year old and still cleans up as good as new. My recommendation is to skip the higher priced models, and buy this well designed handy sized strainer right here on Amazon and get cooking . Bon Apitit!

I ordered this from MV Trading Co. and when I received them bamboo handles were broken. They were packed in a very low quality padded manila envelope which they should have known would not stand up to USPS shipping. I e-mailed MV Trading for a replacement about 2 weeks ago and still have not heard from them. My advise to anyone planning to order from this company, pick another company. I will not order from them again.

These are fantastic kitchen tools and these particularly are VERY WELL MADE. The wire is thick and sturdy as is the bamboo handle.

I use mine for everything from plucking fried items out of my wok (I deep fry in it) to pulling pasta noodles and ravioli out of boiling water to a strainer when I pour a pot out into the sink.

Its not too big and its not too small! Its just right for your wok and deep fryer! Solid construction and durable.

This comes with 2 skimmers. Build quality is solid, note that they charged about $7 for shipping, so add that in and it is still cheaper than what I found in shopping around, and these are also hard to find, at least in the Detroit area.

servicio rapido y efectivo recomendable solo tengo una duda me llego solo un cesto y pense que eran dos aclaren mi duda gracias