Plastic Japanese Rice Washing Bowl with Side and Bottom Drainers

I grew up washing rice in the rice pot, it’s fine, but you have to be very careful while pouring the water out not to spill a little rice with it each rinse. It’s doable, but a bit tedious.Then I moved and got a lovely cheap rice washer at Daiso for under $5 and it was so easy to wash rice, fill, swish, just lift the basket and the water drains into a nested bowl, the pair had handles – perfect, no lost rice, wash it even faster. But I moved and it got left behind.Tried buying a replacement at an H-mart, same nested bowl and strainer with handles configuration, but the holes are varied in size and some are too big, if you fill it all the way full with water, the rice spills out the top half of the basket, and you have to pick them out of the bowl. Hardly a time save and tedious again. Great for washing fruits and vegetables though, so I kept it.Got another replacement at H-mart, focused on getting smaller holes. Had a mesh bottom and a handle, just one piece. So I use a lid of similar diameter from one of my pots to fill with water and swish. Works fine, but it isn’t high enough, sometimes vigourous swishing spills rice over the size into my solid lid, I have to check my rinsewater for errant rice. I came up with the idea of pouring it back over the sieve and it worked fine, but I couldn’t go quite so fast.Then I capitulated to buying another one and decided to go online this time. Well this one’s the best one yet! The shape is deep enough not to escape even if you swish enthusiastically, no hole is bigger than rice, the translucent plastic makes it easy to see where the rice is, and the surface is smooth and easy to clean. On top of that, the holes are a great number and size such that even if you run the faucet into it, it collects in the bowl so you can wash your rice before it runs out! No need to do the old rhythm of run water, swish swish, pour water out, repeat 6 times. You can continuously run water into it while swishing, and it’ll maintain the right amount of water in the basin. Goes so much faster than the old way, I’m never going back. I don’t pour the rice out using the spout because they tend to get caught in the holes there, but pouring out the side is easy enough. Even the last few grains are easy enough to sweep out into the rice pot because the surface is so smooth. Easily big enough even for when I’m making 6 cups of rice.It’s also nice for washing fruits and vegetables. I haven’t used it to sieve pasta, as I’m not sure it’ll handle the heat of boiling water and I don’t want to give up easy rice washing for that, so I have my old metal colander for that, but for anything you rinse or soak in cool to lukewarm water, it is a great tool. It may be a one trick gadget, but it does it’s job excellently and I’m completely satisfied with my purchase. Only regret is that I didn’t buy this one before all those duds.