Mrs. Anderson’s Baking Hand Squeeze Flour Sifter, Stainless Steel, 5-Cup Capacity

Yeah, it is a little rinky dink , but it does the job, and that is what counts. The part I find most amazing is about this transaction is that it made the trip from Amazon without getting smashed. The packing consisted of a bag and the sifter. Nothing else. And there was a sticker on the bag that was applied by the post office indicating that the bag had been resealed, so all around the packing was just not good. Still, somehow, it made the trip intact.

I just made "mashed", "creamed" potatoes using this for the final sieve. One of the best potato dishes I have ever had. Putting the potatoes through this fine mesh and then finishing off with butter and cream resulted in pure heaven. Something this simple and easy to use makes an enormous difference. Following this success, I boiled some eggs and pressed them through a regular strainer, then this mesh for the final. Again, heaven. My deviled eggs are going to impress everyone at the family 4th of July picnic. Even my bitch of a sister-in-law. Revenge at last!

Love the size

I first purchased a squeeze handle type of sifter, thinking that it was an ingenious idea. Instead, it felt like a Captains Of Crush hand gripper workout. OK, that is an exaggeration, but that was how it felt psychologically. We would squeeze dozens of times before getting through 1 measly cup of flour. So it was cathartic when I threw that one into the trash -- it was that bad.I purchased this one instead. Compared to the squeeze handle type, this sifter works so much better. It is easy to turn the handle and sift the flour. However, even though it is a large 5 cup sifter, I feel that it is better to put at most 1.5 cups of flour at a time. It will be easier to sift, I guess because if you use too much, the flour may start to pack down making the handle harder to turn (just a guess).Some flour will be on the edges which cannot be reached by the turning mechanism, but a few small lateral shakes will push that flour into the large sifting area.Also, do not turn the handle too quickly. The first time I used it, I turned it too quickly and flour spilled out of the top. That's another reason why I wouldn't fill too much.This does have a pretty wide footprint and I sort of wish it had a bottom lid so that I could add flour into the sifter without having to balance the sifter over the bowl at the same time. But overall, we are very pleased with this sifter. Caveat: I am not an experienced baker, everything above encompasses my full history of sifting flour.

I'm not sure how to evaluate flour sifters, as I'm pretty new to the baking from scratch game.So far I've bought the occasional cake mix, followed the easy instructions, and baked fairly nice basic cakes.I recently came across a number of articles that pointed out how easy it was to bake from scratch - flour, baking soda, butter, sugar, salt, eggs, vanilla - on recipes such as "Basic 1-2-3-4 cake" and "Basic Vanilla Cake". This made me think we can do better than chomp up the preservatives that go into the cake mixes - specially since pretty much everything is readily stocked in our kitchen, all the time.I came across - and bought - a large bottle of vanilla extract from one of our visits to the local Costco. Now I was getting vested into the interest of cake making.I have a simple battery powered hand mixer - so the only item I was missing was the sifter. I'm not absolutely sure what it does, as any flour I put in effectively comes out, but perhaps the few pieces of larger particles that cling to the screen once I'm done are what sifting is all about.I usually hand it over to our toddlers. They love turning the handle to make the flour fall down. It's great that this is not exactly delicate and breakable. Also great is the turning handle design rather than the clutch-like mechanism on some others - toddlers would not have the grip strength to press a clutch. Our kids love to take part in the cake making process.Long story short - this works great, cakes come out as expected, and takes hardly a couple of minutes more to make from scratch than use a boxed cake mix.

I use this for baking cakes and bread. The 5 Cup sifter is your standard sized flour sifter. I am not sure why they make this product in smaller sizes. When I have a recipe that calls for sifting, it generally requires several cups of ingredients. The 5 cup sifter generally does not fit everything that needs sifting at once - flour, sugar, baking powder, etc. It's size is a good compromise between space consciousness (for storage purposes) and ease of use. I generally measure out my ingredients in the sifter (with the sifter sitting in my mixing bowl) and occasionally crank ingredients into my mixing bowl as the sifter reaches capacity. I repeat the sifting as necessary to get needed lightness that the recipe calls for.I LOVE the hand-crank method over the trigger squeeze triple sifter. The hand crank is MUCH easier to use. When I had the triple screen sifter (seen here: Progressive International 5-Cup Triple-Screen Stainless-Steel Flour Sifter), it was such a pain to sift cake size quantities of flour (literally the repetitive motion hurt my hand, and I am 27 with no arthritis). To get the the same sifting attributes of the triple screen sifter, I have to use this crank sifter 3-4 times. I would crank 8-10 times for the results of the triple sifter. The mechanics are such an improvement over the triple sifter.Thanks for taking the time to read my review, and I hope you found it helpful in making a purchase decision.

I was looking to replace an antique sifter and didn't think I could find one like it, until i found this! The only difference is the little wooden detail on the handle but that makes it even cuter. It works perfectly and I'm thrilled that i found it.