Secret Fetish: Colanders

Colanders are a bit ambivalent, aren't they?

I mean, they'll eagerly contain a lot of the things we crave: Steaming-hot pasta ready for a sweaty straining. Summery, about-to-pop berries needing to be held. Fat, juicy grapes asking for a good, wet rinsing.

But, oh, it's not for long. Nooo. Soon, they'll let things dry up. Get stale. Get mushy. Or get old.

And just when you think you've figured them out, they're back again--all cleaned up and ready to go, eager to be everything you need them to be.

Conflicted colander!

If you weren't so pretty, I'd have rethought this relationship years ago.

Large Fruit Bowl/Colander, $58, zwyner at etsy

Koziol Ole Small White Colander, £2.50, exitinteriors.co.uk

Ole Colander, $150, tivolihome.com

Oyster Colander, $75, DodgeStationPottery at etsy

Berry Colander and Dish Set (Snowball White), $42, baileybowls at etsy

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