This clever kitchen aid has at least 12 uses we could find when our qc people put it through its paces use the chef basket to cook boil deep fry steam strain blanch poach or even to wash and store vegetables its also great for cooking pasta vegetables frying fish and chicken and much more the flip up handles stay above the level of the heated oil or boiling water in the pot fold the handles down and the chef basket becomes a self standing colanderfolds flat for easy storagemade of