Container for draining and straining

Usage examples of colander.

The Doctor switched the CD player on and the colander hummed into life.

The colander was still on his head, the little light flashing away on top.

Cal back down with the leather coat stuffed between his teeth, while Hazel fumbled with the straps beneath the colander to keep it in place.

Boil in salted water twenty minutes, then pour into a colander and let cold water run over it, drain and chop fine.

Boil rapidly for twenty minutes with the saucepan uncovered, then drain in a colander, and serve with drawn butter or a cream sauce.

Boil until tender, and put through the colander, weigh the carrots, add white sugar pound for pound and boil five minutes.

Press through a colander and put into a pint of boiling milk, thickened with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, dilute this with soup stock or chicken broth, and just before taking up add the yolks of two eggs well beaten and two tablespoonfuls of cream.

When perfectly soft, drain in colander, press out all of the water, rub the squash through a sieve and return it to the saucepan.

Let all simmer slowly for two hours, then put all through a colander, return it to the pot, heat to boiling, thicken with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in cornstarch, season with pepper and salt to taste and serve hot.

I happen to have a colander of my own, which came with the shack and has been lying fallow all this time.

Mrs Fulljames, again framed in the door, a colander smoking in her hands like a sacrificial bowl.

She proffered the colander towards him as if offering him extra helpings.

Each one maybe four blocks at the base, rising straight and featureless to spreading screens like the colander she used to steam vegetables.

Leaving it to drain in the colander, she went to the cupboard and took down a salad bowl.

Girls leave home every day, set up house, and buy dish drainers, colanders, and garlic presses, thus bringing a version of themselves into existence.