Rootside Strain

The bag between good juice and silky juice.

Eighty-micron nylon mesh, fine enough that what comes through is smooth rather than gritty. Pour, gather the drawstring, squeeze. It's the last step most people skip and the one that makes homemade juice taste like it came from somewhere.

It also does almond milk, oat milk, cold brew, kombucha, greek yoghurt and stock. If you own Rootside Mylk you don't need it for milk — but you'll want it for everything else.

Details

• 2 bags, 12" × 12" — large enough for a family batch
• 80-micron food-grade nylon, BPA-free
• Won't absorb flavour, so almond milk tastes of almond and not of last week's cold brew
• Rounded corners — pulp doesn't pack into a corner you can't reach
• Double-stitched seams that survive a hard squeeze
• Drawstring doubles as a hanging loop for drying

The honest notes

• Wash it immediately. Turn inside out, rinse under hot water, hang to dry. Pulp left to dry in nylon mesh is a genuinely tedious job.
• It stains. Beetroot and turmeric will discolour the mesh permanently. This does not affect anything except how it looks.
• You can boil it to sterilise. Let it cool fully before use.