Sunday, December 27, 2009

Strange Kitchen Untensil

My grandma has recently given me a number of things including this very strange kitchen implement.
Click to see the larger version. Please help me find out what it is. I'd like to throw it out/ give it away but I'm afraid that its some incredibly useful thing, for all I know it makes chocolate when you know how to use it. Those little wheel things spin around smoothly.

Also, apparently can openers have not changed by the slightest amount in many years. The white one is recent, the khaki one is probably ten years old.

In other news, I found an ugly shower curtain in my apt so I'm giving it away on craigslist. I can't figure out why nobody wants it. See the ad here.

7 comments:

  1. I believe it's a knife sharpener, but you should not use it on any knives that you actually like.

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  2. hey! I remember having one of those in the kitchen drawer at home! no idea what it does, though....

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  3. It truly is a knife sharpener but as Eli pointed out if you love your knives DO NOT use the thing

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  4. Yoni,
    I don't remember if we sent you one of their old knives which was clearly sharpened on that device. Do you know the ones I'm talking about? The ones that started as straight blades and now are curved from having been scraped across those wheels so many times.

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  5. It is indeed a knife sharpener and I remember Grandpa using it before carving a roast. Old, old, old is right.

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  6. Yoni, I think I found your shower curtain problem. Honesty and advertising go together like peanut butter and rib roast.

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  7. Hm, I like this knife sharpener! Might be good for What is it? for Cook's Illustrated.

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