Kitchen Time Capsule from 1998
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altivoNew year's quiz. Went looking for something among stored items in the big barn. Actually found it (miracle!) along with the other stuff in this photo. Posted in lieu of the customary review of the year now ending...
1. Honey dripper. Drips real good.
2. Shishkebab skewers. There were many of these.
3. Appliance cord shortener. Wrap excess cord between hooks.
4. Ceramic grater for ginger root.
5. Lemon slice squeezer disguised as bird.
6. Pouring spout that screws into a milk or juice carton.
7. Strawberry huller. Did anyone get this one?
8. Vegetable peeler.
9. Sardine and anchovy can keys. Years since you needed these.
10. Tea balls or infusers. To hold loose tea leaves in the pot.
11. Coffee measuring scoops. Used to come in the can or bag.
12. Orange peeling tool. Never worked well.
13. Keys that slide onto the end of toothpaste type tubes. For rolling up.
14. Another orange peeling tool. This never worked either.
15. Cocktail forks. To get olives, onions, or cherries out of jar.
16. Spaghetti measure. Don't ask me how, but that's what it says.
17. Serrated grapefruit sectioners. I use a steak knife usually.
18. Another tea infuser, for single cup use. Silver plated!
19. Thumbscrew? No, a clamp to shut off a siphon hose.
20. Pet food can cover. Possibly the only one of these things still made today.
For bonus points, identify the blade with the hole in one end and screw on the other end, located between 13 and 15. We don't know what it was for. Mate suggests that you screw one end into a radish or carrot and rotate it to make long curled slices. I'm doubtful.
Anyway, happy new year everyone. May all the best things happen to you in 2006, and may the Dept. of Homeland Security burn to ashes in the flames of the current scandals.
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Kitchen time capsule The pictured items were extracted from a box that had been stored in the barn for about seven years. It contained items removed from the kitchen junk drawer in our previous house, which we occupied from 1984 through 1998. How many of the numbered implements of torture can you identify? (Click on photo for closer view.) |
1. Honey dripper. Drips real good.
2. Shishkebab skewers. There were many of these.
3. Appliance cord shortener. Wrap excess cord between hooks.
4. Ceramic grater for ginger root.
5. Lemon slice squeezer disguised as bird.
6. Pouring spout that screws into a milk or juice carton.
7. Strawberry huller. Did anyone get this one?
8. Vegetable peeler.
9. Sardine and anchovy can keys. Years since you needed these.
10. Tea balls or infusers. To hold loose tea leaves in the pot.
11. Coffee measuring scoops. Used to come in the can or bag.
12. Orange peeling tool. Never worked well.
13. Keys that slide onto the end of toothpaste type tubes. For rolling up.
14. Another orange peeling tool. This never worked either.
15. Cocktail forks. To get olives, onions, or cherries out of jar.
16. Spaghetti measure. Don't ask me how, but that's what it says.
17. Serrated grapefruit sectioners. I use a steak knife usually.
18. Another tea infuser, for single cup use. Silver plated!
19. Thumbscrew? No, a clamp to shut off a siphon hose.
20. Pet food can cover. Possibly the only one of these things still made today.
For bonus points, identify the blade with the hole in one end and screw on the other end, located between 13 and 15. We don't know what it was for. Mate suggests that you screw one end into a radish or carrot and rotate it to make long curled slices. I'm doubtful.
Anyway, happy new year everyone. May all the best things happen to you in 2006, and may the Dept. of Homeland Security burn to ashes in the flames of the current scandals.
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Date: 2006-01-01 12:56 pm (UTC)With ripe strawberries, removing the stem with fingers tends to be a bit messy too, but once the right touch is found, it's definitely easier than using any tool for that. But it's a curious item anyway, never seen one even though I've been living most of my life in the area full of strawberry fields. Even ended up working on those fields for a few days, though that job wasn't meant for me, all I got there was an achy back and a sunburn. =)