- Size: 7" long
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Last week's Mystery Antique of the Week is still a stumper, take a look again and see if you can help out. It appears to be some sort of embosser and possibly used for baking? Do you know?
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I’m guessing it is some sort of plate or cookie sheet holder.
I’ve even SEEN one of those. And I have no idea (or memory) of what it is for.
I’ve seen one, too! (And, sadly, don’t know what it is either.)
That sharp hook closest to the handle looks like a can opener.
The other end is a hanger upper. Don’t know about the end hook.
Tried to use it as a can opener, does not work for that
Does it poke holes into a jar cover, releasing the pressure, thus allowing you to open it?
Tried that too.. that was a suggestion. Nope doesn’t do that either
I think it’s a spaghetti fork, meant to pull spaghetti out of the boiler water.
too short a handle for that. would burn yourself reaching into a spaghetti pot
Looks a lot like a pasta ladle but I’ve never seen one where the tines (or whatever you’d call them) are so hook-like.
We use that for serving long pastas, such as linguine or angel hair. I know lots of Italians who do the same.
If it doesn’t work as a can opener like the old fashioned “keys” used to, say, to open a can of tuna fish; and it doesn’t work as a bottle opener to, say, open a bottle of Coke from an old fashioned vending machine; then could it be to break the vacuum seal on jars of home canned food? Just a thought.
i think it is part of a frosting dispencer.
My guess is a fruit scooper.
Looks like a pasta ladle to me as well. The sides look like they might be shaped for measuring the uncooked pasta?
This is a can opener and jar opener in one
it is a pasta stirer
I agree it is some sort of a server. If the spaces between “tines” are different sizes, then the pasta measure makes sense. If it is too short for using when cooking, maybe it is just for serving pasta at table.
Could it be used for scooping ice cream? Is it too large for scooping olives or pickles out of a jar – allowing liquid to drain off? What about serving salad? A puzzle indeed!
It does look like a pasta server but you are right – the handle is way too short. Someone else guessed fruit. I have a feeling that it has a much more specific and utilitarian function than being a server … it’s just not pretty enough for a server. Let us know if you ever figure it out!
My guess is spaghetti picker upper. I saw after guessing that someone dubs it that. You could lift it out in a circular motion, keeping hold of the pasta in the teeth.
Looks like an ice cream scoop to me, but looking closer at it’s construction, I’d say a pasta server so that the water drains or even a salad server. Seems to be a versatile instrument can probably be used for what ever works. I often use our pasta server to serve salad works great.
Could it be for cleaning out a pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern for Halloween?
This looks to me to be a bottle/lid opener.
used for taking hot pans out of the oven ie corningware
Looks like the gadget used to release ice cubes from metal cube trays.
Like Wanda, I also thought of removing pie tins from oven or just moving pans around in oven.
Looks like the old can opener we used back in the 40’s and 50’s.
It appears that Ed was the first one right in his guess. Although this looks like a bottle/jar opener, and several folks were guessing pasta fork, it wouldn’t work for those uses. BUT when I tried to grab a hold of a cookie sheet or pan, it works. I’m not sure I would trust it 100%, but that appears to be the intended use.