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Hi this is Karen for Expert Village we strained our soup our vegetable stock and as you can
see there's a lot of bits and pieces in it now that's fine to use and if you and especially
for the lentil soup that it's a thick soup, this is fine to use. But if your going to
use the vegetable stock for something else and you want a clear stock then you can restrain
it with a straining cloth or 2 to 3 layers of cheese cloth. Now if you wet the straining
cloth the cheese cloth before it's a little easier to put in your colander and you just
fit it into your colander like that, you can use a cheese cloth. This is a straining cloth
and then you restrain the stock through the cheese cloth or the straining cloth and you'll
see you'll get a nice clear stock,
it takes a little bit longer to strain it because it's going through the finer holes,
then a regular colander. But just let it sit there and you can see its a lot clearer and
it'll catch all the little bits and pieces that the colander did not catch before.