# Is there a gadget for wringing moisture out of frozen food?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [May 20, 2024, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-gadget-for-wringing-moisture-out-of-frozen-food/1001799 "2024-05-20T09:59:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-gadget-for-wringing-moisture-out-of-frozen-food/1001799/21 "2024-05-22T14:19:31Z")

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I just let stuff drain in a colander for a while. (I have more than one colander, and one of them is made out of stainless steel if anyone remembers that thread) I will press food against the sides of the colander to force water out, works great with grated potatoes when cooking up a huge batch of latkes. I’ve found frozen stuff releases water readily as it thaws, but does end up pretty wet and needs time to drain.

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-gadget-for-wringing-moisture-out-of-frozen-food/1001799/22 "2024-05-22T18:17:51Z")

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Seconding this. It’s easy to rice fresh cauliflower with a food processor; probably less labor-intensive than wringing water out of the frozen stuff.

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**Author:** ![GailForce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@GailForce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GailForce)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-gadget-for-wringing-moisture-out-of-frozen-food/1001799/23 "2024-06-21T16:52:27Z")

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update: I finally made pizza dough with fresh cauliflower instead of the frozen, and it was excellent, though surprisingly wet. I was expecting the food-processored cauliflower to be very, as raw cauliflower doesn’t seem to have much moisture in it, but it did. I had to add the same amount of flour to the mix (mozzarella and egg) as I did with the frozen stuff once I’d wrung all the moisture out of it.

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