Hiware Stainless Steel Fat Skimmer Spoon - Fine Mesh Food Strainer for Grease, Gravy and Foam, Japanese Hot Pot Skimmer with Long Handle

This is great for skimming scum from the surface of stocks, and for similar skimming tasks. Mesh is very fine and it picks up small bits very well. Skimmer is easy to clean. Because of the fine mesh this is not a heavy duty tool you can treat harshly. Store it carefully and it should last a long time. I keep mine in the plastic bag that it came in. I have used mine to skim hot cooking oil that was used for deep frying. It worked well, but I have not used this regularly for deep frying applications.

It’s perfect for skimming the fat of when making broth. Perfect size for storage, not too big. Thank you.

Ha cumplido mis expectativas. La he utilizado para quitar la espuma que produce la carne o el pollo al cocinarse en caldo.

I love to cook Asian recipes, and although I had focused more on dishes cooked in a wok, recently I've started cooking more soups as well, and one of the recommendations in those recipes is to skim off the foam or impurities that float to the surface when boiling meats. In the past I had just used a regular spoon, but it's tedious and trying to just get the "scum" and not any of the soup isn't easy to do sometimes. That's when I looked into skimmers and ran across this one. Yes, it's made in China, and I even read the few reviews from others that mentioned the "screen came loose" on the first use (or shortly thereafter), but I've used mine now for quite a while and have cooked many pots of soup using it, and it hasn't been phased at all. I had read one review where the person said the screen fell out after just picking up a few scallions with it. Well, I wasn't there, but I will truthfully say that I have picked up a very large sweet yellow onion out of the pot with it, as well as hunks of beef short ribs or chicken just to test its durability and it handled it all with ease. What really amazes me though is its ability to skim oil and grease out of the pot as well, allowing the more viscous broth or soup to fall through the screen, but NOT the grease or oil. It does that job sooo well, that when we cook whole cut-up chickens to make our dog's their food (mixed with rice, vegetables and other nutritious ingredients), we no longer have to let the chicken stock cool in the refrigerator to allow the grease to harden before skimming it out of the pot (we boil down the broth to use in the recipe, too). This skimmer does a FANTASTIC job of skimming, and am so glad I purchased it. It's holding up extremely well, does great at skimming foam impurities, and can clear your soup or broth of grease and oil while its cooking, too!! Thank you!!!

great product