Talk:Sieve

Missing link
http://www.cyrusoft.com/sieve/ is no more, I added the link to the archive.org page.

Stefano Giunchi from forli, italy

When is a sieve a sieve?
Are all sieves used for cooking really either colanders or chinoises? Isn't a sieve something fairly clearly defined in of itself? Peter Isotalo 14:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Straining about strainers
I have the same question about strainers. I think the whole three pages need to be reworked. FiveRings 19:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Merge Strainer into Sieve?
If nobody objects, I'm going to do this FiveRings 20:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Move to another name
This article is about food/drink and is presently named sieve. There are many many links to sieve that have nothing to do with food and/or drink. I think it might be a good idea to move this page over to Sieve (food) or Sieve (food and drink) and repair the links that describe "sieve" in the context of a kitchen to that article. This would allow Sieve (disambiguation) to be moved to Sieve. I'm not sure if I'm selecting a good name here to move this article to, so I'll wait a bit (a week or so) to see if there is are any other suggestions or comments. + m t  21:15, 17 May 2009 (UTC)Then Sierra Morrison had a baby girl at the age of 13 yeas-old.
 * An idea, certainly. But how many of the derivative meaning of sieve are based on this underlying sieve? This is the fundamental one. This is unlike many disambiguation pages where things just happen to have the same name or abbreviation. Stephen B Streater (talk) 08:21, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

A sieve is not a filter
The article begins by saying, "A sieve, or sifter, separates wanted elements from unwanted material using a filter such as a mesh or net."

Researching the etymology of filter as coming from Medieval Latin filtrum "felt," --felt being the material through which impurities were strained from liquid, and understanding the construction of felt to be non-woven fabric (it's matted together by heat, moisture, and pressure, instead of being woven or knitted), we can deduce that a sieve is NOT a filter, as the construction of its screening mechanism IS woven--digitally organized & orderly, not messy and haphazard.

I propose a sieve be referred to as a screen, perhaps, but not a filter.

I may seem to be nitpicking, but that's what wikipedia is about, right? Achieving clarity. : )

Anyone have insight that contrasts what I am proposing?

Pietro79 (talk) 20:01, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

--update--

I have exchanged the word "filter" for "woven screen", as I believe this more accurately describes a sieve (for reasons mentioned above). 24.84.229.90 (talk) 07:38, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Merge strainers into stainless steel strainer
Since similar merges have been mentioned here before, and the relevant strainer page redirects here, I would like to draw your attention to my proposal to merge strainers into stainless steel strainer. I would appreciate any feedback you might have at Talk:Stainless steel strainer. --David Edgar (talk) 17:22, 17 April 2012 (UTC)