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Aldo_Ferrari_19526

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with them? if so i'd like to hear your thoughts on them and if you think it's a good gadget to add to your kitchen.

Thanks!

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Brendan_Lee_56950

They're really handy actually. I'd recommend them for sure especially if you do a lot of stocks.

lfmichaud

I bought them years ago and really like them. But I wouldn't buy them again as they are quite expensive. For about the same price you could get sieves that seem much more practical.

Aldo_Ferrari_19526

thanks for the replies. Brendan, which one would you recommend the #400 or #800? i'm looking to purchase only one at the moment.

Brendan_Lee_56950

I'd go #800, the finer the better if you only want one since you can't make the #400 smaller but you can always finagle the #800

DiggingDogFarm_65362

Are they a pain in the butt to clean?

Where are y'all buyin' 'em?

com-chefsteps

I bought my superbag from Modernist Pantry for convenience's sake. Everyone seems to love the sieves instead, and given the storage-space differential the difference must be really salient. Because one of these things is smaller than a dog collar, and one of these things is the size of an emergency tire* and everyone wants at least three.

After having bought a couple of large and medium Superbags, and then the small, I wish I'd only gotten the small. I'm pouring stuff _through_ it, so I don't care how big it is except for how much it's getting in my way. The big ones get in my way a lot, like I'm wearing a shirt that's four sizes too large, plus any side-dripping you have to manage. I end up only able to use my stock pot to hold the big super bag and catch strained liquids, which is inconvenient because half the time the stock pot is full of the stuff I want to strain.

They aren't a pain in the butt to clean if you close your eyes and pretend that whatever's caught in the seam, which will never go away, won't kill you. The seam is damn near impossible to clean. The rest, you can pour dish soap over, scrub it against itself for thirty seconds, rinse and let dry. Maybe repeat if you still feel grease on it. You do need a place from which to hang it to dry.

I'm talking myself into sieves pretty hard just by writing this. But sieves are so damn big and unfoldable.

Eff it. I'mma get a centrifuge

*I exaggerate. It's the size of a huge cheesecake. It's the size of every laptop you've ever owned, stacked. It's the size of your high school biochemistry textbook. It's big.

Tim_Sutherland_52834

@Ted if you think sieves are large be prepared for a shock.

com-chefsteps

What's that white machine on the left?

Johan_Edstrom_5586

A centrifuge

Tim_Sutherland_52834

Left to right, Thermo Scientific Heraeus Multifuge 1XR Centrifuge; 3 x 12" AffordableSeives with base and lid; and a Polyscience MV35XP Vacuum Chamber Sealer. One can be easily moved by a single person; one can be moved very, very short distances by a strongish male; one requires two strongish males and a lot of cursing to lift.

Aldo_Ferrari_19526

lol @Tim