Collapsible Silicone Strainer Basket
Navy / Small
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$29.99
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$50.00
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Small, Large, or both?
The size question is really a question about what you rinse most. Colour is personal, but the size decides whether the basket is the one you reach for or the one that stays in the cupboard.
| Choose | If this sounds like you |
|---|---|
| Small | You rinse berries, herbs and a couple of handfuls of salad leaves, and you have a narrow sink or a galley kitchen where nothing oversized survives. |
| Large | You drain a full pot of pasta or a bag of potatoes, and you want to tip the pan straight in without doing it in two goes. |
| Small + Large | You cook properly most nights and want one going for the pasta while the other holds the washed veg. |
Both sizes flatten to the same shelf, so the pair takes up barely more room than one.
Can I tip boiling pasta water into it?
Yes — silicone is the part that handles heat. The thing worth checking is what's underneath it, not the basket.
| Works on | Avoid |
|---|---|
| Stainless steel and composite sinks, ceramic butler sinks, draining boards, sitting inside a larger mixing bowl. | Balancing it on a hob ring, resting it collapsed while full, or leaving it folded and wet in a drawer. |
Open it out fully and press the rim down until the sides lock upright before you pour — a half-extended basket folds under the weight of the water. Then rinse, shake, and let it dry open rather than collapsed. Drying it flat is the step people skip, and it's why a folded basket smells faintly of last week's broccoli.
The colander stops being the reason your cupboard won't shut.
A rigid colander is mostly air, and it takes up the space of a stockpot to do it. It ends up shoved at the back of the low cupboard behind the roasting tins, which means you leave it there and drain the pasta against the pan lid instead, losing half a portion down the plughole. This one folds down to something you can slot beside a chopping board, so it lives where you actually wash up.
Why the silicone wall is what makes or breaks it
Every collapsible basket lives or dies on the concertina fold. Silicone is the right material for it because it bends thousands of times without creasing white or going brittle at the hinge, and because it shrugs off heat in a way that plastic hinges don't — which matters the moment you tip a pan of boiling water in. The perforations are moulded through the wall rather than punched, so there are no cut edges to catch a strand of spaghetti or a thin bean.
The rim is the other half of it. A firm rim holds the sides upright under load and gives you something to grip while you shake, instead of the floppy collapse that makes cheap versions useless the second they're full.
What each colour looks like on a draining board
- Green — a soft herb-garden green that reads as kitchenware rather than plastic. The one to pick if the rest of your worktop is wood and stone.
- Red — proper pillar-box red. Easy to spot in a cluttered sink, and the choice for kitchens that already have a red kettle or a red pan.
- Navy — the quietest of the four. Hides water marks, disappears against a dark worktop, and suits anyone who doesn't want bright kit on display.
- Orange — warm and unapologetic. Picked by people who like their kitchen tools to look like tools.
What You're Getting
- Collapsible silicone strainer basket in your chosen Colour and Size
- Colour: Green, Red, Navy or Orange
- Size: Small, Large, or Small + Large as a pair
- Flexible silicone body that folds flat for storage and locks upright for use
- Moulded drainage perforations with no sharp cut edges
- Firm rim to hold the shape while draining and to grip while shaking
- Handles hot water straight from the pan
- Care: rinse after use and dry open, not folded
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