Where can I buy cheesecloth and butcher's twine

[sygyzy]

Disclaimer: Yes, I searched and I feel terrible asking because I know you can get it at a few places like Cooking.com but they seem awfully expensive.

I am just looking for supplies to make boquet garni and tie up the occasional osso bucco. What's a good all around kitchen supplier? I used to think Cooking.com was great but half the time I get results from them, they are sold by a different vendor (sort of like how Amazon is sometimes).

Anyway, question is - bouquet garni supplies. Where?

In the meantime, here's a little trick I have been using. Take a tea strainer (not one with a handle, but one that would be used for making, say, a large pot of iced tea) and use it for your bouquet. The mesh filter is so fine nothing gets past it and you can easily fish it out. It also never bursts open the way bouquets from Keller's Bouchon cookbook (he instructs you to wrap leek leaves around your herbs and spices) do.

[annabelle]

You can buy cheesecloth in the fabric department at Walmart for a song.

Kitchen sting, get it at the hardware store.

Edited January 3, 2008 by annabelle (log)

[JimH]

If you want an online source, then try this website: http://www.alliedkenco.com/catalog/index.php

This butcher's supply store is near one of my clients and I buy from them regularly. I always come out with more than I intended to buy.

ETA: "n" to then

Edited January 3, 2008 by JimH (log)

[sygyzy]

I wish I had a "butcher's supply store" near me! Thanks for the info everyone.

[dougal]

Are you sure its *cheesecloth* that you are after?

In English English, that stuff has a pretty open weave...

... and for a bouquet garni, I'd be using plain white "muslin" - a cheap, closer-woven, thin, low-lint cloth available from most textile/sewing/drapery/etc shops -- note: nothing to do with food, and you don't have to tell them what you want it for! Best to wash it before use, though.