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Aside from looking pretty, the pan has a built-in spoon and spatula rest and has a modular design that lets you nest steamer baskets and colanders.

From Fox News • Nov. 27, 2021

War-ruined bathhouses are dotted around Aleppo’s Old City, their distinctive domes, punched like colanders with round apertures of colored glass, lying smashed, or looking down on rooms filled with rubble and garbage.

From Reuters • May 9, 2019

Three professional-grade mixing bowls and two colanders make up this Epicurious set.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2019

Bailey scooped lard from a tub to mix into flour for cobbler dough, while I drained peaches in colanders set over soup pots.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2018

At times she sat cross-legged, at times with legs splayed, surrounded by an array of colanders and shallow bowls of water in which she immersed her chopped ingredients.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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