Colander

A colander (or cullender) is a kitchen utensil used to strain foods such as pasta or rice or to rinse vegetables.[1] The perforated nature of the colander allows liquid to drain through while retaining the solids inside. It is sometimes also called a pasta strainer or kitchen sieve.

Not to be confused with Calendar, Calender, or Coriander.
For other uses, see Colander (disambiguation).
An enamelled colander

Conventionally, colanders are made of a light metal, such as aluminium or thinly rolled stainless steel. Colanders are also made of plastic, silicone, ceramic, and enamelware.[2]

The word colander comes from the Latin colum meaning sieve.[1]

Types of colanders
A mated colander pot showing the colander fully inserted into the bottom pot, and slightly lifted out of it
  • Bowl- or cone-shaped – the traditional colander
  • Mated colander pot[3]

Other uses
Pastafarian protester wears a colander while showing an icon of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

The colander in the form of a pasta strainer was adopted as the religious headgear of the religion Pastafarianism in deference to the Flying Spaghetti Monster.[4]

gollark: See, this (and me not knowing the rules) is why I just ignored it for now.
gollark: If I figure out the moderator rules and get this simulator working (and hook it up to a genetic algorithm library) I hope it will be possible to design reactors which are stupider than any before.
gollark: Mine is 9x9x9, runs LEN-236 oxide at 34kRF/t or so, and is entirely passively cooled at the cost of several thousand glowstone.
gollark: Won't do 600H/t though.
gollark: 1000% or so on my 27-cell reactor.

See also

References
  1. "Colander (2011)". Merriam-Webster.
  2. Colander. CooksInfo.com. Published 02/12/2007. Updated 10/15/2010. Web. Retrieved 11/30/2012 from http://www.cooksinfo.com/colander
  3. "Mated Colander Pot" on justcooking.in
  4. "Pastafarian protester carries an icon of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Piazza XXIV Maggio square in Milan, Italy, on June 2, 2012". Wikimedia Commons.
  • Media related to Colanders at Wikimedia Commons
  • The dictionary definition of colander at Wiktionary


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