{"id":8766,"date":"2019-02-04T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thriftingwonderland.com\/post\/cool-colanders-from-the-thrift-store"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:16:14","slug":"cool-colanders-from-the-thrift-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/?p=8766","title":{"rendered":"Cool Colanders from the Thrift Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Every well-stocked kitchen needs a colander for rinsing vegetables, berries and draining pasta. Certainly there are inexpensive plastic and metal colanders available at local stores. Why not have a pretty porcelain or steel colander in your kitchen? You’ll enjoy using it more than one of the cheaper varieties and it will cost you less than that cheaper variety.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

You can find lots of really nice, barely used or even new porcelain colanders at the Thrift Store. Bring them home, wash thoroughly and you are ready to go.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This pretty, good-sized colander has a nice motif on the front and back. Handles allow for a good grip and easy lifting when full. It has a nice little pedestal and is in my favorite white. Paid a couple of dollars for this.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Here’s another example of a porcelain colander. It sits on a pedestal and is trimmed in blue and yellow and embellished with blue flowers front and back. Good handle grips and easy clean-up make this one of my favorites. Also fits into the white dish category.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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My most recent find is this lovely little porcelain white berry bowl. It has a great handle making it easy to hold or pour from. Patterning on the outside carries to the inside in a sort of swirl. Fits in with my white dishes. I can see myself using this a lot when strawberry season comes around.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Last one for today is this lovely steel enameled blue and white colander with stainless steel handles. As you can see this one is also on a pedestal and is in perfect condition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I paid under $4 for the most expensive of these colanders and I use them in the kitchen all the time. I don’t know if prettier kitchen tools make you a better cook? I know I enjoy cooking more when I have pretty and functional things to use — especially when I’ve gotten them for a lot less money at the Thrift Store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every well-stocked kitchen needs a colander for rinsing vegetables, berries and draining pasta. Certainly there are inexpensive plastic and metal colanders available at local stores. Why not have a pretty porcelain or steel colander in your kitchen? You’ll enjoy using it more than one of the cheaper varieties and it will cost you less than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70469586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35425,148819],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-course","category-quick-and-easy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ziaG-2ho","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70469586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16413,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/16413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriftingwonderland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}