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No kitchen would be complete without a flour sifter.  Or would it?

As the name implies, the flour sifter was designed to sift flour, breaking up clumps and removing foreign matter.  These days, however, the flour that you bring home from the grocery store is unlikely to have clumps or contain foreign matter.  Some cooks, however, insist that the usefulness of the flour sifter has not ended, that it can still be used to aerate flour, giving it more volume and thus making for lighter, fluffier baked goods.  They claim that sifting also makes it easier to incorporate other foods and liquids into sifted products.

Even if that were true (and it might very well be) some feel that a sifter is more trouble than it’s worth, and that an ordinary sieve will work just as well and be much easier to clean up afterwards.

The debate goes on.

The reason for raising the matter here is simply to show that when contemplating the purchase of a food preparation or food storage product, it is wise to look at the pros and cons of that purchase.  In other words, why purchase a flour sifter if you don’t think it is worth using?  On the other hand, wouldn’t it be wise to add one to your inventory of kitchen tools if you think it would be of great benefit?

A flour sifter is not terribly expensive, so buyng one just to try it might be worthwhile, even without giving it a great deal of thought.  For more expensive appliances such as grain mills, bread makers, deluxe food processors and the like that might not be as good a policy to follow.  Maybe you should consider doing a little contemplating beforehand.

After all, if you can’t see yourself ever using it, why are you buying it?  If you don’t think the pros outweigh the cons, why make the purchase?  If you aren’t going to be willing to at least try it, is it really going to be that wise an investment?

Yet, if you envision it being a really useful and important tool, why are you hesitating?