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a drum-shaped sieve that turns lumpy ambition into silky, restaurant-grade smoothness.
means A fine drum-shaped sieve made of mesh stretched over a round frame, used in cooking to strain, sift, or purée ingredients into an ultra-smooth result.
from From French tamis, meaning "sieve" or "sifter," which descends from a Late Latin or Vulgar Latin root *tamisium. The deeper ancestry is murky and possibly pre-Roman, perhaps Gaulish — etymologists note the trail goes cold rather than pretend otherwise. The same French word also gave English "tammy" (a strainer cloth), so the kitchen and the dictionary both inherited the same humble sieve.
- name origin
- French for sieve, from Latin tamisium
- chef weapon
- forces purees through fine mesh for flawless texture
- shape
- flat drum, unlike conical chinois strainers
- old material
- once woven from horsehair before metal mesh
for instance
tamis silk weave — fine open-weave fabric produced in lyon, france, resembling a sieve pattern