Porous kitchen utensils

Usage examples of colanders.

A minor example springs to mind: When I was young, lunching chez McNeil, Lois boiled water for Kraft macaroni, banged pots and colanders like crazed jungle tom-toms ("She wants us to know how much work she's doing," whispered Karen.

Some of the heads around here could give colanders lessons, leaking their latent hostility.

They rummaged unseen among the mounds of trash, to re-emerge carrying bent wire, battered saucepans and colanders, even one or two broken helmets, and great glinting piles of mirror, savage random jags.

In a week's time his stove was worth¬less, his pots were like colanders, and his pans like sieves.