This Tenta Kitchen pasta basket is designed for efficient draining with micro-perforations that allow food to drain quickly. It features a sturdy, one-piece anti-corrosion steel construction with an increased thickness at the mesh and handle connection to prevent separation. The premium-grade material ensures durability. Its stable draining ring base prevents tipping, ensuring your food doesn't sit in liquid. The basket is made from stainless steel mesh with a sturdy plate steel, and includes a long wooden handle with two hooks for convenient hanging on the pot during use and easy storage. The deep basket design securely holds food for easy transfer and serving, while the long handle keeps hands safe from heat. It is versatile for cooking, reheating, and draining noodles, pasta, dumplings, matzo balls, and for blanching vegetables or deep frying. It's also suitable for individual portions. This strainer is lightweight and durable, requiring hand washing in warm, soapy water. It is ideal for rinsing, straining, steaming, blanching, par boiling, and reheating vegetables, pasta, spaghetti, noodles, fruits, eggs, and dumplings. It functions excellently as a pasta strainer, pasta boiling pot, and vegetable broth pasta, and is also best for rehydrating dried food ingredients or reheating pasta and steamed food. The food-grade high-quality stainless steel alloy is corrosion and rust resistant.