Difference between Colander and Sieve

What is the difference between Colander and Sieve?

Colander as a noun is a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta. while Sieve as a noun is a device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Colander

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta.

Sieve

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A device to separate larger objects from smaller objects, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.

We hope you now know whether to use Colander or Sieve in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles