Grease splatter guard

 

The oil used to cook these dishes can scatter all over the stove and beyond—to the backsplash, the countertops, your apron, you name it. Grease splatter guard  And hot messes aren’t just tedious to remove from surfaces; they can also give you the kind of nasty burn likely to put a damper on your meal. Enter the splatter screen, a simple utensil you can place atop sauce pots and sauté pans to trap projectile oil and enthusiastically bubbling liquids. The mesh of a splatter screen is fine enough to contain grease but will still allow steam to escape—and lets you keep an eye on food as it cooks. “Covering a pan when frying is safer and less messy because you reduce the amount of hot oil flying around,” attests Fuchsia Dunlop, author of cookbooks The Food of Sichuan, Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking, and others. The extra-fine mesh design typically only needs a quick rinse before being transferred to another pan, and it's dishwasher-safe, which comes in handy when you want to give it a more thorough clean after a few uses. What's more, the multifunctional cooking tool also acts like a strainer and steamer, and the narrow design makes it a breeze to store in smaller kitchens.  "It keeps all the oil in the pan instead of on the stove and my arms and hands," wrote one shopper. "We cook chicken, turkey, beef, and salmon, all with oil and it can get messy pretty fast! But this stops the oil and grease from popping. It's also easy to clean — I just wash everything by hand. It protects the cook and the kitchen from burns and mess."