Need a good strainer or draining method

[BedHead]

What do you use to drain/strain and rinse things like rice, quinoa and wheat berries after soaking?

The st steel strainer I have has a lip that they just get stuck in.

Could I use cheesecloth? If you use cheesecloth, how do you do it exactly? I'd need 3 hands to hold it and pour the stuff into it. Could I soak it in the cheesecloth?

There must be an obvious solution I just haven't thought of.

[cristeen]

I soak in a wide mouth jar, and then just have an almost flat strainer that I can put over the mouth of the jar, flip it upside down and let it drain, flip it back up, rinse, flip it upside down and drain again.

[jocelyndale]

For quinoa and millet, I use the ultra-fine mesh strainer from my donvier yogurt cheese "maker".

For rice, I sometimes use a different metal sieve.

[BedHead]

Originally Posted by cristeen

I soak in a wide mouth jar, and then just have an almost flat strainer that I can put over the mouth of the jar, flip it upside down and let it drain, flip it back up, rinse, flip it upside down and drain again.

That is a great idea - I have one of those flat things!

[motherofe11even]

Originally Posted by BedHead 

What do you use to drain/strain and rinse things like rice, quinoa and wheat berries after soaking?

The st steel strainer I have has a lip that they just get stuck in.

Could I use cheesecloth? If you use cheesecloth, how do you do it exactly? I'd need 3 hands to hold it and pour the stuff into it. Could I soak it in the cheesecloth?

There must be an obvious solution I just haven't thought of.

You can use cheesecloth. Take a bowl and then put the cheesecloth inside the bowl as a sort of covering. Then place your stuff that needs to be drained on the cheesecloth that is inside the bowl. Then gather the 4 corners of the cheesecloth and suspend it over the bowl. All the extra liquid will drain through the holes of the cheesecloth into the bowl.

I usually get my cheesecloth fabric online.

[velcromom]

I soak in a bowl, and I use a splatter screen placed over the top to drain - that way the grain stays in the bowl.