PANIC ! My mash strainer is blocked!

[Blackjack]

Just having an ongoing disaster with my new mashtun. Argos £16 coolbox with a full copper pipe manifold in the bottom with literally dozens of hacksaw cuts through the underside. Just came to run the wort off and after a pint or so it has blocked up and dried to a trickle.
Apart from making a bad situation worse by pouring the mash back and forth in a bucket with a sieve what can I do.

Ideas and suggestions please
JP

[Horden Hillbilly]

Try gently blowing into the tap on your mash tun, preferably using plastic tubing. This should free the blockage, when you start the run off again, do so slowly.

Just a thought, how is your strainer connected to the tap? I'm just wondering if it has come adrift.

[Blackjack]

Two great replies, thank you, my initiative had not extended as far as blowing back, and indeed I was wishing I did have a fermenter with a tap and a sparge bag.

Will take it a biot slower as well.