How To Clean Tea Strainers

Clean Strainers

It is seen that tea strainers whether they are metallic or of synthetic material, after few weeks of use they start getting stained and the seive starts getting clogged by very fine particles. I make ghee at home so I use the strainer for straining ghee (Clarified butter) also.
Scrubbing the stariner for cleaning is not a great option as the edges between sieve and the meatl strip retains the dirt, also it is too cumbersome with not so staisfactory results. After some time the strainer looses its shine and we normally discard it and get a new one.
Some people keep the stariner on low flame till all particles in the siave, all dirt in the edges gets burnt, then scrub it hard to clean it. This though cleans to quite an extent but the stariner becomes black due to getting burnt. Also burning leaves the kitchen with disagreable smell and lots of smoke.
Today I am telling the best, easiest way of cleaning the strainers.

Material required:

• 1 Teaspoon: Cleaning Powder or Cleaning Liquid (I used Surf)
• 1 Old / New Tooth brush
• A pan big enough to hold your strainers
• Water

Direction For Cleaning Tea Strainers:

Dirty Strainer

Dirty strainer

Dirty Strainers

• Take a pan big enough to put your stariners in it.
• Fill the pan with water and add one teaspoon of cleaning powder / Liquid.
• Put the stariners in the water and cleaning powder mixture in the pan with the sieve side in water.

Dirty Strainers Kept For Boiling In Water Soap Mixture

• Keep the pan with stariners, water and cleaning powder mixture on medium heat and allow it to boil.
• Once the water starts boiling lower the heat and let it boil for 5 minutes.

• Water will become murky due to dirt of stariners coming in it.

Dirty Strainers in boiling water and soap

• Let the water cool.
• With the help of tooth brush remove all particles and stains by slowly scrubbing it. It will be very easy and effortless. It will take just a minute or so. 
• Wash under flowing water. 
• Lo and behold you have your strainers looking new ans shiny again.

Cleaned  Strainers

Tips:

• Incase of synthetic stariners water and cleaning powder / liquid mixture will have to be boiloed first, then afetr switching off the heat the dirty strainers will have to be put in it. Let the strainers be in the hot water cleaning powder mixture till it cools off then scrub them off clean.