Norpro

Buying Guide: Kitchen and Canning Tools

Canning Accessories
Norpro offers a jar lifter with a vinyl coated grip for moving jars out of boiling water, plus a magnetic lid wand for picking up canning lids. A canning ladle with dual spouts and a wide mouth funnel with a handle help you fill jars with less mess. Canning labels and a canning rack are also available.

Food Strainers and Screens
Norpro offers the Sauce Master food strainer, which forces fruits and vegetables through a chrome plated steel screen to separate juice and pulp in one step. Screens include a berry screen, a pumpkin and squash screen and a salsa screen, each with a different mesh size. Choose the screen by the texture you want, since the berry screen has a finer mesh than the salsa screen.

Everyday Kitchen Tools
Norpro also offers a stainless steel corn cutter that removes kernels from the cob, a baster with a silicone bulb and a cleaning brush, and bamboo skewers for kabobs. A cherry pitter, an apple peeler, a flour and sugar shaker and cheese cloth round out the kitchen line.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Norpro make?
Norpro makes kitchen and canning tools. The range covers jar lifters, canning ladles, funnels, lid wands, food strainers and screens, a corn cutter, a baster, skewers, a cherry pitter and an apple peeler.

How do I choose the right screen?
Pick the screen by its mesh size. The berry screen has 3/64 in. mesh, the pumpkin and squash screen has 1/8 in. mesh and the salsa screen has 1/4 in. mesh. Choose the mesh that gives the texture you want.

How should I clean the food strainer?
The food strainer and sauce maker is hand wash only. Follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning to keep the screen in good condition.