Sift
My question is about the verb “to sift”. I know that I can sift flour, cocoa powder and all sorts of solid cooking ingredients. My question is: Can I sift liquids? Let’s say I make some homemade orange juice and want to take the pulp out of it. Do I sift my juice? If I don’t, what do I do to it? Help me! : )
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You strain it.
semiotek Feb-16-2012
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Being sure I'd heard it before, I Googled "sift the juice". And there are lots of examples. Quoting from the first one:
"Peel and slice golden pippins, according to what quantity of jelly is required ; boil them to a marmalade with a little water, and a lemon sliced, and sift the juice ..."
John Gibson Feb-20-2012
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If people make mistakes on the Internet, Google will find them.
nigel Feb-25-2012
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"If people make mistakes on the Internet, Google will find them."
Similarly, the internet allows the uninformed and lazy to wander in. For the not-too-lazy my google shows that many educated writers in English have used "sift the juice". But, if it's all too much for you, don't strain yourself.
John Gibson Feb-27-2012
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Please repeat after me:
I Do Not Sift Juice! I Will Not Sift Juice! I Have Never Sifted Juice! :-)
You can filter the pulp out. You could possibly strain, but that is reserved for cases when you start with a thicker mash. If you started with a thick mash of crushed tomato or pineapple, you would strain out the juice.
But if it a liquid with a little bit of pulp, you filter.
Mike K Mar-10-2012
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