A pickle lifter or lifting tray is a device for elevating food from a container to make it more accessible for extraction. Typically, it acts as a strainer to assist in raising pickles and cornichons from their brine solution towards the top of a jar or container.[1] Those used in commercial products are often made of plastic,[2] while some are made of metal.[3]

Green plastic pickle lifter in a jar of Maille cornichons

The Tupperware corporation makes a product under the trademark Pick-A-Deli that contains a built-in pickle lifter in the form of a lift-up strainer.

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  1. ^ "What Is A Cornichon?". Food Republic. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  2. ^ Mason, Tom. "Letting the end user decide: Design thinking is changing the way some Atlantic companies create new products" (PDF). Atlantic Business Magazine.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Why Chefs Love the Cornichon, France's Favorite Pickle". Departures. Archived from the original on 2020-11-16. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
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  • US 481691  "Pickle Lifter" US patent
  • Tupperware Pick-A-Deli