Reddit mentions of Winco MS3A-8S Strainer with Single Fine Mesh, 8-Inch Diameter, Medium, Stainless Steel, Tan

It is a colander. This is a strainer.

This is the best method. This is the type of strainer you need to wash rice.

I will say though, unless this is some really nice rice or you're really, really broke, just go to the store and get a new bag. In the US: if you go somewhere like Costco or you can buy large bags or generic brands, it should cost you $0.50-$1 per pound, and you won't grind your teeth down with the little rocks in your curry.

Wow, very cool! Do you roll the boba by hand? I've heard it's really time-consuming.

Oh, I see. That makes sense. I guess you're obligated then to use loose-leaf tea, local milk, and local honey. Even so, you should be able to sell it at enough markup to net a profit. How much does each serving cost to make? $1?

Look into Boba Guys (SF). They use loose-leaf tea and local milk (almond is an option too) and sell at a higher price ($4.50 v $3.50). They market it as a premium version for boba enthusiasts and health-conscious consumers. Their site has pages explaining how they got started and why their prices are higher.

Personally, I prefer classic, stronger milk tea, but Boba Guys seems to be doing well in the city.

If you have 4 8-gal pots, then you can brew 8 gal and then pour it into another pot through a strainer like this or this. Or you can use 4 clothespins to attach cheesecloth over the second pot. I've tried fine-straining my milk tea to get rid of leaf dust (not that you'll have much) and it didn't do much, so I wouldn't bother.

Also, you could reinforce the healthy/hippie theme by using raw sugar. US brown sugar is just white sugar with molasses added back in. Demerara/turbinado have some molasses left in during processing. Muscovado has more. Black sugar (from Taiwan, Okinawa, or Korea) is considered a health food.

I use a funnel and a typical kitchen strainer when transferring beer from the boil kettle to the fermenter.

This has two benefits, it removes the majority of the trub from the beer and it splashes and helps oxygenate the beer before primary fermentation.

You don't have to grind it, but it smokes better if you do!


If you don't have a grinder, you can use one of these which you can find near the cooking items in places like Walmart! You take a nugget of your bud, and rub it against the mesh. Do this over a Tupperware bowl or something, then pinch it into your bowl!


The hole on the side is called a carb, cover it with your finger and then light the bowl and start to slowly inhale. Then take your thumb off to clear the pipe. When it gets clogged, use a tooth pick or something to poke it!


If you take a toilet paper roll and stuff it full of dryer sheets, then tape some cloth or paper with holes poked through it you can exhale your hits into it, and it'll smell like laundry instead of weed! Make sure to use eye drops a few minutes before you go back home...And breath mints or gum!

I too have a tiny rice cooker that would over boil. I'd get that starchy-water load all over my counter-top. I used to just rinse the rice a few times in the pot. If you have the time, you can let the rice soak for 15 min or so and then do a final rinse in a mesh strainer. Or you can just rinse the rice really well in the strainer before putting the rice in the cooker. I've tried using olive oil and that helps a little bit, but rinsing in the mesh strainer made the biggest difference for me.

Personally I use a fine metal strainer instead. It has no moving parts and can be used for well... strain things.

Yes you can save your tomato seeds. Get them from fully ripe tomatoes. I usually scrape out the seeds and goop from several tomatoes into a small mesh strainer like this one. I then wash the seeds under cool water until most of the slimy stuff is gone and all you have left is clean seeds. Then I hang the strainer over a bowl and let them dry out like that for about a day. Don't let them dry out completely in the strainer or they will be stuck to it.

Once they are semi-dry, I dump them out into a glass bowl and let them dry for a couple more days. You'll have to break them apart a couple times while they are drying so they don't dry into one big lump. After they are separated and totally dry (4-5 days), I toss them into a zip-lock bag and store them in my garage until next year. Tomato seeds are one of the easiest seeds to save and re-start the next year. About 10 years ago I bought one tomato plant that turned out to be a huge producer and I've been saving seeds from it ever since. I've gotten over 10 years of tomatoes from one plant purchase.

A fine mesh strainer is the key. You can pick em up fairly easy. I have a fine and a course one and use them surprisingly often. I wouldn't mess with cloth/fabrics/ and especially coffee filters.. They are just way too fine. Cheesecloth is way too course and bundles would end up taking forever. I think this one is similar to the one I use for fine liquids..

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