Flour Shifter

A kitchen utensil with a mesh bottom used to sift dry ingredients, such as flour or powdered sugar. The most common Sifters are built with a trigger in the handle that is activated to move back and forth in order to push and pull the dry contents through the mesh sieve in the bottom of the Sifter.As a piece of machinery the sifter is simple: a container of stainless steel, aluminum or tinned steel, at the base of which is an agitator - a metal wheel of some sort, usually propelled by a trigger in the sifter's handle - that forces the flour through a screen.