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Pickle lifter

A pickle lifter or lifting tray is a device for elevating food from a container to make it more accessible for extraction. Typically, it acts as a strainer to assist in raising pickles and cornichons from their brine solution towards the top of a jar or container. Those used in commercial products are often made of plastic, while some are made of metal.

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A pickle lifter or lifting tray is a device for elevating food from a container to make it more accessible for extraction. Typically, it acts as a strainer to assist in raising pickles and cornichons from their brine solution towards the top of a jar or container.1 Those used in commercial products are often made of plastic,2 while some are made of metal.3

The Tupperware corporation makes a product under the trademark Pick-A-Deli that contains a built-in pickle lifter in the form of a lift-up strainer.

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  1. "What Is A Cornichon?". Food Republic. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  2. Mason, Tom. "Letting the end user decide: Design thinking is changing the way some Atlantic companies create new products" (PDF). Atlantic Business Magazine.
  3. "Why Chefs Love the Cornichon, France's Favorite Pickle". Departures. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
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