{ "id": "3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper", "sku": "3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper", "title": "3-in-1 Kitchen Sink Strainer and Stopper", "slug": "3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper", "price": 39.99, "currency": "AUD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "kitchen-sink-strainers", "category_label": "Kitchen Sink Strainers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": null, "images": [ "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/main-3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-2.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-3.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-4.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-5.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-6.jpg", "https://drains.net.au/dropship-images/kitchen-sink-strainers/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "A stainless steel basket catches waste, a press-to-seal pop-up core holds water for washing up, and a smooth brushed surface wipes clean in seconds.", "description": "The slow drain nobody notices until it is a problem\n\nKitchen drains almost never fail all at once. They fail by a millimetre a month. A bit of rice slips past when you rinse the pot. Tea leaves go down because you were in a hurry. Coffee grounds, onion skin, a few strands of pasta, the fat that solidifies once it cools in the pipe. None of it feels like a big deal on the day. Then one evening the water sits in the bowl while you stand there with wet hands, and you realise it has been getting worse for ages.\n\nThe fix is boring and cheap. You put a filter in front of the drain so the scraps never get in. That is the whole job of a kitchen sink drain strainer, and it is one of those small purchases that quietly saves you a plumber's call-out later.\n\nWhat makes this particular unit worth a look is that it does not stop at filtering. It is a 3 in 1 kitchen sink strainer and stopper, so it also seals the drain when you want to fill the bowl, and it covers the drain opening neatly when you are not using the sink at all.\n\nHow the three functions work together\n\nThe filtering part is straightforward. A stainless steel basket sits in the drain opening and catches solids while the water passes through. When you are done, you lift the basket out, tip the contents into the bin and rinse it. Your hands never go near the drain itself, which is a bigger deal than it sounds if you have ever gone fishing for a lump of something unidentifiable.\n\nThe stopper is the clever bit. Instead of a rubber plug on a chain, it uses a press-type pop-up core. Push the centre down and it seals. Push it again and it releases. That matters in daily use because you can switch between \"holding water\" and \"draining\" without lifting anything out, without twisting, and without feeling around under cloudy water for a plug you cannot see.\n\nThe third job happens by default. When the unit is sitting in the drain, it covers the opening with a flat steel disc. The sink looks finished rather than having a dark hole in the middle of it, and nothing drops down there by accident.\n\nMaterials, and why steel matters here\n\nA kitchen sink is one of the harsher spots in a house. It is wet most of the day, it gets hit with hot water, detergent, oil and food acid, and it almost never fully dries out. Plastic parts in that environment stain, go cloudy and eventually warp.\n\nThis one is listed as stainless steel, in a steel colour. Steel handles the wet far better, keeps its look, and cleans with a cloth rather than a scrub. The listed special feature is anti-clogging, referring to the basket design that lets water through while holding the solids back.\n\nOne practical benefit people underestimate is how steel looks next to a steel or composite sink. A cheap plastic strainer always reads as an afterthought. A brushed steel drain strainer sitting flush in the bowl just looks like part of the sink.\n\nGetting the size right, which is the only hard part\n\nHere is the honest truth about buying any sink plug with basket strainer online. The product can be perfect and still be useless if it does not match your drain. So measure first, before anything else.\n\nTake out whatever is currently in your drain. Measure straight across the circular opening at its widest point. Then measure how deep the recess or groove goes down from the sink surface. Write both numbers down.\n\nFor this unit, the listed compatible groove diameter is 7 cm and the compatible groove depth is 3.8 cm. The product itself measures 11.3 cm wide by 7 cm high, with an item depth of 1.46 inches. If your drain opening comes in close to those figures, you are in good shape. If it is noticeably smaller or larger, this is not the right one for you and no amount of pushing will change that.\n\nA tip worth following. Measure twice, in two directions. Older sinks are not always perfectly round, and a few millimetres of ovality can be the difference between a snug fit and a loose one.\n\nWho this suits\n\nHouseholds that cook properly. If you scrape plates into the sink, rinse rice, drain pasta or wash vegetables, you are putting solids down the drain every single day, and a sink drain filter basket pays for itself fast.\n\nRenters. You are not replacing the waste fitting in a place you do not own, but you can drop in a strainer that protects the pipe and lift it back out when you move.\n\nAnyone who hand-washes. The press-to-seal stopper makes filling the bowl genuinely quick, which matters if you soak pans or wash glassware by hand rather than running the dishwasher.\n\nPeople who have already had a blockage. Once you have paid for one drain clearing, a strainer stops feeling optional.\n\nChoosing between strainer types\n\nThere are broadly three styles on the market and they suit different habits.\n\nA plain basket strainer only filters. It is cheap and it works, but you still need a separate plug if you ever want to fill the sink.\n\nA plug-only stopper seals the bowl but does nothing about scraps, so the pipe keeps collecting waste.\n\nA combined unit like this one does both from a single fitting, which means one thing to clean and one thing to store. For most kitchens, that is the sensible pick. The only reason to go a different way is if you have an unusual drain size that the combined units do not cover.\n\nKeeping it working\n\nCare is simple and takes seconds rather than minutes.\n\nEmpty the basket after each wash-up. Wet food scraps sitting in a warm sink overnight are the main cause of drain smell, and emptying straight away removes the problem entirely.\n\nRinse the basket under the tap and give the visible steel a wipe with warm soapy water. Dry it with a cloth if you care about water spots, which show up more on steel than on plastic.\n\nKeep abrasives away from it. Steel wool, bleach and gritty cleaning powders will scratch the finish. A soft cloth does the job.\n\nEvery so often, rinse around the pop-up core. Grease and fine grit can build up around moving parts, and a quick flush under running water keeps the press action feeling crisp. Hand washing is better than the dishwasher for this reason.\n\nSmall habits that help more than the product does\n\nA strainer is only half the system. The other half is what you stop putting down the drain in the first place.\n\nPour cooking fat into a jar or an old tin rather than the sink. Fat goes down as a liquid and sets as a solid, and no strainer can catch something that is liquid on the way through.\n\nScrape plates into the bin before rinsing. The strainer is there for what you miss, not as the primary bin.\n\nRun hot water for a few seconds after a greasy wash-up. It helps move anything that made it past the basket before it has a chance to settle.\n\nDo those three things along with using an anti clog sink strainer and you will likely never think about your kitchen drain again.\n\nThe short version\n\nThis is a small, cheap part that solves a problem most people put up with for years. It filters scraps so they never reach your pipes. It seals the bowl with a press when you want to soak something. It covers the drain opening and looks tidy doing it. The build is stainless steel, so it holds up in a wet sink and cleans with a wipe.\n\nThe one thing you must get right is the fit. Compatible groove diameter is 7 cm, groove depth is 3.8 cm, and the unit measures 11.3 cm wide by 7 cm high with an item depth of 1.46 inches. Measure your drain, compare the numbers, and if they match, the rest of it takes care of itself.", "llm_summary": "The 3-in-1 Kitchen Sink Strainer and Stopper from brand zaa is a stainless steel sink accessory that combines a drain strainer basket, a press-operated pop-up stopper and a drain cover. Pressing the centre seals the drain to hold water, pressing again releases it so the bowl drains while the basket catches food scraps. Listed material is stainless steel in a steel colour, with an anti-clogging special feature. Product dimensions are 11.3 cm wide by 7 cm high, item depth 1.46 inches, compatible groove diameter 7 cm and compatible groove depth 3.8 cm. Model number is steel. Supplied as one item, one count. Product weight, country of origin and GTIN are not specified by the maker. Buyers should measure their drain opening before ordering.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Australian Consumer Law consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Drains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://drains.net.au/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/", "canonical_url": "https://drains.net.au/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper/", "json_url": "https://drains.net.au/api/products/3-in-1-kitchen-sink-strainer-and-stopper.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }