My favorite kitchen tool is small, simple and cheap. It saves me lots of time and headaches, thus reducing stress in my life. This my friends, is a tool no kitchen should be without (and at such a
cheap cost why doesn’t every kitchen have one already?!?) Perhaps you’ve
never realized just how much one small object can do for you.
For a mere $1.97 I have :
- reduced the amount of time I have to clean up messes at the kitchen sink.
- saved several pieces of flatware from being marred
- kept loads of gunk and goop from clogging the drain.
- saved countless baby spoons from a barbarous murder
So simple and ingenious. I can’t count how many times a plastic baby spoon would slip down the sink drain and I would have to stick my hand down in that nastiness to retrieve it, then wash my hands and clean under my nails. If I didn’t do this right away, I’d forget and end up with splatters of food and water all over myself and the sink as the spoon would prevent the disposer from working properly. Of course the spoon would no longer be useable. Regular flatware would get so marred from the disposer that it would scratch our lips when we ate. Try as I might to keep the sink cleaned out enough to avoid this, it would still happen.
Enter the mesh sink strainer. As I was looking for some other small kitchen item when we moved here last May, I noticed this sink strainer for $1.97 at Walmart. Figuring it was worth it, I threw it in the cart. If I had to replace it today, I’d pay $10! It has saved me that much time and frustration. I also love the frugal benefit of not having so much gunk down in the disposer. A couple of bumps over the garbage can and a quick rinse and it’s good as new. (I do remove it if I’m cutting or peeling food and intend to use the disposer)
It’s cheap and very effective. When you think of how many pieces of flatware you end up tossing every year from disposer accidents, it’s well worth the small investment. Amazon even has one for $1.78 and one for $2.99. Either one would be great to help get you to the $25 free shipping mark.
If you have an item in the kitchen that you can’t live without, I’d love to hear about it!
This is part of Works for Me Wednesday at We Are That Family.
I have one of these over each shower drain as well. With 3 long haired females in the house, it keeps my drains from getting clogged up with hair.
I never thought of that! I have very long hair and have to use a snake about every other week to clear the drain. Too bad we have the push button type of drains now and a strainer won’t work.