Sinkware 5061 Stainless-Steel Bathtub Strainer
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Product Details
Manufacturer: SinkwareBrand: Sinkware
Edition: Kitchen
Release Date: 2008-04-03
Model: 5061
Publisher: Sinkware
Studio: Sinkware
Music Label: Sinkware
Product features:
- Bathtub strainer made from durable stainless steel
- Finely spaced mesh grating helps ensure clog-free drains
- Traps hair, lint, and more while allowing water to pass through
- Pops easily into place; removes for convenient cleaning
- Measures approximately 3 by 3 by 2 inches
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Sinkware 5061 Stainless-Steel Bathtub Strainer
Customer Review: O T H E R.......U S E 4 Stars
This item, the Sinkware 5061 Stainless-Steel Bathtub Strainer, did not fit my bathtub. Upon putting on top of my admittedly oddly-shaped bathtub stopper apparatus, the bathtub strainer did not fitneatly around the stopper, but hovered, loosely, around. I realized that if I washed my hair in the shower with THIS apparatus around my bathtub stopper, fewer hairs might get into the drain -- but some, inevitably, would get into the drain, nonetheless.....
I considered returning the item -- but it is so well-made! Additionally, since the item cost only $2.59, I feared that postage
to return the item would be more than I had paid for it. So -- I
kept it around for a while, wondering what I should, (and could), do
with it....
I guess I've sort of made a hobby of finding new uses for things. An empty 8-ounce jar of Instant Maxwell House Coffee, for instance, is now an easily-carried mini-tank for my pet Betta Fish, "Pink". (I have also bought a 12-ounce jar of Instant Maxwell House Coffee, which is a bit bigger. When it is empty, I will clean it out, and put little "Pink" in there, so she will have more room to swim around in -- yet I'll continue to have convenience, (and joy!), of easily carring her around. I have turned paper napkins into tracing paper and an elastic-trimmed shower cap into a Tenctonese "head" for a play I wrote about the wonderful TV show, the Origional "Alien Nation -- The Series." I have turned a (very) large bath-towel, wrapped in a special way, into a substitute toga, (this design was, however, nixed by our drama teacher as looking too much like a bath-towel -- although the guy who was playing "Crassus" to my "Varinia" liked it very much and argued with the teacher about it...), and 32-ounce zip-lock container into substitute "Pasta Express." Yes, I guess everyone has to have a hobby or two -- and anything I do, with these resembling-a-mad-scientist "substitutions", seem pale and quite
harmless, compared to what "mad scientists" are usually purported to do -- and sometimes, DO do!
Anyway, I kept looking for a substitute use for this bath strainer. I put it into a clean, empty container, which had once held a 15 ounce, micro-wavable serving of Chef Boyardee Meat Ravioli, and tried to use the resulting combination as a soap strainer. It worked pretty well....except the strainer's holes were a bit smallish, so I had to keep cleaning them out....
Then, I had some friends over. They especially like the lose, English Breakfast tea that I save for special occasions. Suddenly, lightning struck, (or-- maybe I should re-phrase that, as lightning really didn't strike -- I just got an idea on a much better way to utilize my earstwhile bath-strainer, you see) -- and I busily got to work, cleaning and washing, rinsing and re-rinsing, re-cleaning, and drying and re-drying, my little sink strainer, so it would look, and act, as if it were new.....
Then, I put water up for tea. (Water for tea should NOT boil a long time, so I had to hurry.) I took the sink strainer, and popped it onto a cleaned, empty 22-ounce mason jar. (This Mason jar had once held Classico Pasta sauce, and -- like any regular-mouth Mason jar, can ALSO be used as a smaller container when using an old-fashioned Osterizer blender, such as my own). Anyway, I plunked the cleaned sink strainer, into the cleaned and empty former Pasta sauce jar, (strainer inside the jar), and took out another similar cleaned and
empty Pasta sauce jar, and put that one beside the first. Then I put some loose English Breakfast Tea leaves into the (now former) bath-tub strainer "basket", Slowly, I poured water over the tea leaves, watching with satisfaction as mostly water-being-made-into-tea, with only a tiny, and quite neglegible speck or two of the tea-leaves themselves, poured into the first empty Mason jar. After the water had all trickled down into the first mason jar, I took the now-tea-strainer off that jar, and placed it on the second empty mason jar. Then I poured the tea from the first mason jar into the second. (I had to wear lined blue rubber gloves to do this, because the water-becoming tea was VERY hot....at least in the first few moments....
After two or three tranfers, the tea was ready to drink. (Don't be fooled...the tea that looks very pale in a glass will actually be very dark in a cup.) My friends pronounced the tea delicious and, after they left, I had a VERY easy clean-up.
So, my erstwhile bathstrainer has found a new, permanent use at last.
Please don't laugh at the light-heartedness of this review -- I purposely made it that way, in the hopes that it would be fun to read. But my new "tea strainer" really does work -- beautifully -- on all lose teas. (I also tried it with bagged tea -- bag cut open -- and freshly-ground coffee beans. But this strainer's holes are much to big for most bagged tea, and there isn't enough pressure to make a instant, brewed-coffee substitute. So, a lose-tea-leaf strainer it is -- and shall be from now on!
Hopefully, I'll be able to find another that WILL fit my irregularky-shaped bathtub. In the meantime, I'm always on the lookout for more product substitutions! : )
Description of Sinkware 5061 Stainless-Steel Bathtub Strainer
Sinkware Bathtub Strainer pops into the drain to filter out lint and other drain cloggers. Made of white stainless steel construction, measures 3-inch.Products
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