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Hot take: my grandma's 1972 flour sifter still beats my $30 one from Target
Back in 2020 I bought a fancy stainless sifter with a crank handle and a little scraper thing, thinking it would step up my banana bread game in my tiny Austin kitchen. Turns out it clogs if the flour is even slightly clumpy, so after about 6 failed loaves I dug out my grandma's old tin one with the squeeze handle from the back of the cabinet and it's never once jammed on me. Has anyone else had a cheap old baking tool that just runs circles around the new stuff, or am I the only one hoarding 50 year old kitchen gear?
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gonzalez.phoenix15d ago
My mom's 1968 Foley sifter has the same squeeze handle setup and I've put maybe 200 batches of biscuits through it without a single clog. The thing I keep coming back to is the mesh itself, because the old ones used a coarser wire with bigger holes, while the new crank models seem to use a fine screen that packs tight the second there's any moisture in the flour. Have you ever compared the mesh size side by side between the two? I'm curious if your grandma's is actually coarser or if it's more about how the squeeze motion pushes the flour down instead of dragging it sideways like a crank does.
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